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Town of Hunter, New York, United States
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At Broadridge, we've built a culture where the highest goal is to empower others to accomplish more. If you’re passionate about developing your career, while helping others along the way, come join the Broadridge team.
Broadridge is currently looking for a Senior Applications Architect to join our Global Software Engineering team. The successful candidate will be a creative technologist with a proven track record of building and scaling high-performing technology products to drive growth. They will bring a depth of experience developing software solutions towards business objectives.
The successful candidate will display strong attributes as a technology strategist and execution driver to design, structure, and help guide the development of software applications to meet business requirements, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability. The Senior Applications Architect will bridge the gap between business problems and technology solutions by contributing to the design of technical roadmaps, helping to set coding standards, and supporting the development teams through complex design decisions, while executing strategies for large scale system integrations. They will operate as a technical expert in the implementation and optimization of business enterprise systems, leveraging their extensive experience in .NET and AWS Cloud technologies with a comprehensive understanding of the current and evolving technology landscape.
Work Mode: We are made up of high performing teams that meet in person to learn and collaborate as needed. This role is considered hybrid, which means you’ll be coming into the office 2 days a week and given the flexibility to work remotely the rest of the time.
Responsibilities:
Collaborate with senior engineering leaders, engineers, and a staff of full-time contract professionals on application requirements, incorporating desired functionalities into application development plans, and ensuring successful delivery across the application development lifecycle
Provides strategic guidance on technological capabilities, limitations, and emerging innovations that align with the business product roadmap and functional operations that enhance the client experience
Strategic technical areas of focus will include:
Architecture & Design Review
Prepare and review architecture diagrams, design concepts, and implementation of Kafka-based integrated solutions using Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform, ensuring they are highly scalable, resilient, and future-proof.
Support the execution and integration activities with third party IT vendors, including environment setup, configuration, data migration, and system validation.
Create scalable architectures, integrating disparate systems (cloud, on-prem, and hybrid), and managing the database structural requirements for large-scale applications
Document technical designs and conduct code reviews to maintain quality, performance, and security standards.
Platform Support
Support the end-to-end process for onboarding the application to Broadridge's Integrated Platform
Help drive the integration to the new cloud-based structure utilizing Confluent Platform components: Kafka brokers, Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, and REST Proxy.
Deployment & Automation
Lead deployments and configurations of new software build on both on-prem and cloud envs.
Automate provisioning, deployment, and maintenance tasks with Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, or similar CI/CD tools.
Perform application integration, API design, and system migration, often managing multi-cloud or SaaS environments.
Quality Engineering and Troubleshooting
Collaborate with Quality Engineering to implement robust monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks using Splunk, Datadog, Prometheus, or similar tools
Proactively troubleshoot Kafka clusters, diagnose performance issues, and conduct root cause analysis for complex, distributed environments.
Ensure complete end-to-end testing of solutions is automated using Enterprise tools for both Smoke and Regression tests
Leads technical design sessions and works closely with multiple teams to review work (architecture, code, etc.)
Handles technical implementation, code quality, and supports the overall productivity of the development team
Plays a lead role in meetings between the Product Team, Engineering, Quality, and Infrastructure teams to provide technical leadership/guidance and help coordinate to remove impediments/roadblocks
Provides estimates of all priority and non-priority projects to Engineering leaders along with recommended scope or schedule changes based on capacity and unforeseen challenges
Offers strategic guidance to engineering team on application solutions, data design, testing, troubleshooting, software development tools, technology and application development methodologies, architectures, integration strategies, governance, quality assurance and business support processes
Maintains balance across the spectrum of building, running, and growing the application portfolio
Qualifications:
Bachelors (Master’s Preferred) degree in computer science, computer engineering, or in a related field
12+ years of experience operating within an Enterprise Technology structure, with extensive development experience in .NET and AWS Cloud
Strong understanding of modern technologies such as Angular, React, Java, PostGresSQL, Kafka and REST APIs
10+ years of relevant IT experience within financial, investment, and /or fin-tech institutions, with IT project leadership experience
5+ years of experience creating logical and physical data models, defining database schemas (SQL, NoSQL, Graph/Neo4j)
Functional skills in a full Application Development Life Cycle/ Agile Development, Architecture and System Design, DevOps / Deployment automation, including GitLab, Jenkins and JFrog
Proven track record of supporting a technology integration and/or transformation initiatives—such as modernizing legacy platforms and implementing modern frameworks and architectures
Compensation Range: The salary range for this position is between $165,000- $175,000 USD. Broadridge considers various factors when evaluating a candidate's final salary including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, and education.
Bonus Eligibility: Bonus Eligible
Benefits Information: Please visit www.broadridgebenefits.com for more information on our comprehensive benefit offerings
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We are dedicated to fostering a collaborative, engaging, and inclusive environment and are committed to providing a workplace that empowers associates to be authentic and bring their best to work. We believe that associates do their best when they feel safe, understood, and valued, and we work diligently and collaboratively to ensure Broadridge is a company—and ultimately a community—that recognizes and celebrates everyone’s unique perspective.
Use of AI in Hiring
As part of the recruiting process, Broadridge may use technology, including artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools, to help review and evaluate applications. These tools are used only to support our recruiters and hiring managers, and all employment decisions include human review to ensure fairness, accuracy, and compliance with applicable laws. Please note that honesty and transparency are critical to our hiring process. Any attempt to falsify, misrepresent, or disguise information in an application, resume, assessment, or interview will result in disqualification from consideration.
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Disability Assistance
We recognize that ensuring our long-term success means creating an environment where everyone is welcome, where everyone's strengths are valued, and where everyone can perform at their best. Broadridge provides equal employment opportunities to all associates and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and pregnancy), marital status, national origin, ethnic origin, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, and other protected characteristics protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
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