Technical Architect ( Software Development Engineer III ) at Amazon

• Advanced software development and technical leadership capabilities. Strong system architect with standard-setting software development skills. Expert proficiency in one or more areas.
• Advanced knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
• Capable of independent full systems design, including requirements gathering, specifications, and coding.
• Capable of playing a technical leadership role for complete product cycles. Has built and delivered complex systems that leverage our technology platform and work well with other company systems.
• Capable of applying advanced software development theory and skills to architect, design and build complex systems.
• Heavily involved in scoping the technical requirements for a new project, and identifying the appropriate technology solutions for each project.
• Will work very closely with other technical leads to make sure that the pieces of the complex system work well with the other dependent systems.
• Work requires significant creativity and judgment.
• Ability to work independently with little review by more senior engineers. Would play a significant role with engineering managers to determine potential risks to a schedule. Would help develop long-term department technology strategies and significantly influences the cross-company engineering processes and standards. Should be able to influence engineering best practices.
• Skilled consensus builder. Should be able to work very closely with end users to make sure the application or system meets the needs of the business. Would play a consultative role with other senior engineers/engineering managers on broad technology decisions
• Mentor, develop, and train engineers. Would play a significant role in hiring great engineers.
• B.S. degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics. 8-15 years of relevant, broad engineering experience.

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Distinguished Infrastructure Architect at Ebay

Primary Job Responsibilities
Working in the PayPal Operations organization, this individual is required to demonstrate Technical Architectural Leadership, playing a vital role in eBay/PayPal infrastructure running in 24x7x52 environment. The candidate must be able to think independently and analyze, troubleshoot and resolve complex business and technical problems without direction, internationally, on all aspects of information systems. Provide direct support to PayPal Technology Executive Management on vision, strategy, due diligence, audits and governance.

Responsibilities include the following:

• Define and evolve PayPal Technology into a world class, cost-effective enterprise operation.
• Partnering with cross-functional organizations, develop strategic infrastructure architecture and technology roadmap that meet senior management vision and strategy.
• Design and develop infrastructure standards, procedures, guidelines, policies and lifecycle that meet PayPal’s scalability, performance, security, and availability requirements.
• Design and interpret system metrics and scorecard to measure effectiveness of technology tools.
• Perform and direct risk assessments, audits, systems reviews, and define risk mitigation. Analyze system incidents, assess risk and lead the incident response team (to root cause and documented controls to prevent future incidents).
• Develop and present executive documents on technology subjects and strategies.
• Manage, design, or provide consulting support to technology projects. Interact with internal and external technical leaders to develop innovative solutions that meet market needs with respect to availability, functionality, performance, scalability, security, and reliability.
• Partner with Corporate and Global Security, Trust and Safety, and other eBay entities for corporate architecture solutions.
• Translate technical concepts into cost and risks to the business, and adjust technology strategy and tactical efforts to meet PayPal’s corporate objectives.
• Define business needs and direct technology solutions for new systems and applications.
• Participate on Business Continuance projects.
• Lead new technology integration via requirements analysis, proof of concept, design, and implementation. Make recommendations and implementations for new tools and technologies.
• Make recommendations for improving the complete system development life cycle and direct the actual implementation of those recommendations.
• Quickly learn and teach others new technologies.

Job Requirements

• Current knowledge and experience of industry trends and technology advancements.
• Experience implementing large scale, high availability, fault tolerant web infrastructure in a dynamic environment.
• Very strong leadership and ability to command respect at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to clearly articulate business and technical issues with senior management, peers, and outside parties (e.g. vendors, partners).
• Experienced in developing and presenting strategic technology solutions that drive the business.
• Ability to demonstrate expertise and leadership in problem solving expertise.
• Solid understanding of software data flow, and how it applies to the physical layer.
• Ability to quickly learn existing complex systems infrastructure.
• Demonstrable analytical and problem solving skills, particularly as it relates to systems design.
• Facilitation and team-building skills at all levels. Ability to influence, train, mentor and leverage the skills of others, including business partners and technical team.
• Excellent communication and relationship skills.
• Ability to thrive in a high-pressured environment. Ability to multi-task multiple projects at once and drive to results independently.

Education
Bachelors Degree or Equivalent

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Application Architect at Ebay

Primary Job Responsibilities
This individual is required to demonstrate Technical Architectural Leadership, playing a vital and strategic role in the design, operation, implementation, and maintenance of eBay's marketplace platform.
A 12 year history of technical preparedness for this role is required to provide guidance on the architecture of the world’s leading e-commerce web site serving a community of 200 millions users, accessing over 1 billion pages per day, and manipulating more than 2 Petabytes of data through applications totaling over 6 millions of lines of codes released to production every 2 weeks.

• Working closing with the Business Units, Systems Administrators, Network Engineers, Applications Developers, System Architects and Data Base Administrators. Determine system design, scalability characteristics, potential issues, and implementation costs of major business requirements.
• Interact with internal and external technical leaders to develop innovative solutions and implementation strategies that preserve the integrity, availability, stability, security, and scalability of eBay’s site.
• Review external technologies and products for their applicability to specific project requirements. Must be able to compare various solutions and select the one most appropriate for the project and company.
• Mentor team members on design and architecture guidelines and value to business.

Job Requirements

• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced work environment,
• Is customer and process oriented,
• Has excellent communication, presentation and relationship skills, and is able to articulate business issues/concerns with staff, peers, superiors, and outside parties (e.g. vendors, partners).

• Very strong leadership and ability to command respect at all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrable analytical and problem solving skills, particularly as it relates to application and systems design.

Expertise breadth or depth in covering the following domains:

• Very strong OOA/OOD a must, Design Patterns, UML, O/R Mapping, Code Metrics
• Experience with Java and Java application servers required
• Experience in defining infrastructure frameworks or system layering and componentization
• SOA, Web services design especially on a large scale
• Experience with high volume Web systems or large transaction client-server systems with particular attention to security, scalability and high performance.
• Experience with HTTP/HTML, CSS, JSF, JSP, XML, SAX, Java Script

Expertise with the following technologies:

• Managing/Tuning Database servers; Database Design;
• Advanced Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM); VERITAS Cluster Server (VCS) or other High-availability service, especially in a SAN environment; design and operations of SAN environments
• High availability strategies
• TCP/IP and load balancing strategies
• Messaging and Queuing

Knowledge and experience using eBay's websites strongly preferred

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