Principal Architect

Job Category:

Technology

Pay Grade Range:

$118,070.00 - $275,490.00

Disclaimer: The base salary range represents the low and high end of Altus Group’s “Pay Grade Range” for this position in the primary work location. Actual hiring salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to work experience, and geographic market data for the role. The Pay Grade Range listed above does not reflect Altus Group’s total compensation for employees. Other rewards may include an annual bonus, flexible work arrangements, and region-specific benefits.

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If you’re looking to advance your career in data analytics, expertise, and technology for the rapidly growing global CRE market, there’s no better place than Altus Group. At Altus, our work is purposeful. Every day, our employees drive impact, innovate, and shape the global commercial real estate (CRE) and PropTech industry.

Our people-centric culture empowers you to deliver in a high trust, high performance culture, surrounded by an inclusive team that’s collaborating to modernize our industry. We invest in our people with training and growth opportunities designed to propel you further in your career while providing a flexible and progressive workplace that reflects our values and teams.

Job Summary:

Building on established market-leading software and incorporating new technologies, we are creating an unrivalled platform to serve the real estate investment industry. As a result, we are looking for a Principal Architect with a passion for designing and building cloud and data solutions and outstanding development and architecture skills. As part of the architecture team, you will be a crucial player, leader, and agent of change as you architect and guide the build and support of a cloud platform, solutions, and data services. You will be highly accountable, assertive, and thrive in an ambiguous environment. This is an opportunity to join us during an exciting time of digital transformation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Spearhead our technology trajectory by conducting progressive research and prototyping cutting-edge technologies.

• Work on dynamic projects covering several new products and technologies, but focus on architecting, developing and implementing our new cloud applications and data management back end.

• Evolve and communicate the architecture standards and roadmaps to the teams.

• Ensure clean design, architectural consistency and support exemplary development practices.

• Document the designs to foster knowledge sharing across the organization and create agreement on what we're building.

• Work as part of the global Architecture team to ensure consistency and cross-team collaboration on the design, estimation, and positioning of new features.

• Provide governance over the development process to ensure non-functional, and architecture standards requirements are satisfied.

• Provide architectural direction from concrete and abstract concepts, assessing technology options and detailed implementation guidance.

• Promote best practices for software engineering to ensure solid code and usability consistency across teams.

• Collaborate and communicate with and support product managers to architect industrial operations, resiliency, business continuity, performance, scale, cost optimization, development efficiency and security.

Key Qualifications:

• The senior technical knowledge. You have expertise in coding with multiple programming languages and deep practical knowledge in design patterns and principles, engineering principles, developing frameworks, modern cloud AWS or Azure architecture and building scalable applications for the cloud.

• You have the technical experience that comes with designing and developing serverless, data-centric cloud platforms, and architecting solutions in a lean/agile way, including consideration of: Scalability, resilience, partner interface, security (risks and threats, authentication, authorization), data validation, representation and storage, tuning and testing using automated testing patterns and toolsbalancing the need for feature development with architecture

• You can build collaborative working relationships and gain the trust of your team, influencing their work to ensure deliverables are met on time.

• You can understand and contribute to the technical solution from design to the code level.

• You have strong project management capabilities, including time management, attention to detail, and the ability to prioritize and balance competing deliverables.

• The interpersonal skills. You have a commitment to collaboration, the ability to foster working relationships at any level. You thrive working across inter-disciplinary groups that bring teams together and build great products.

What Altus Group offers:

• Rewarding performance: We are pleased to be able to provide employees competitive compensation, incentive and bonus plans, and a total rewards package that prioritizes their mental, physical and overall financial health. 
• Growth and development: As a destination for top industry talent, we’re investing in you to meet the evolving needs of our clients and deliver on your professional goals. Our Altus Intelligence Academy offers over 150,000 hours of learning materials catering to diverse stages of an employee’s career journey.
• Flexible work model: We’re modernizing our employee programs to reflect the new world of work. Our Activity-Based Work model provides you with flexibility to align your work location to the work being performed - office for connecting and collaborating, and remote for focused work.

Altus Group is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment where all clients and employees feel welcomed, accepted and valued. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.
 
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We appreciate all applicants who take the time to apply to Altus Group. Please note that only those who are selected to move forward in the process will be contacted. Thank you.