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Zebra Technologies

Senior Director Architecture

Zebra Technologies, Kennesaw, Georgia, us, 30156


Remote Work: No

Overview:At Zebra, we are a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working to make everyday life better. United by curiosity and care, we develop dynamic solutions that anticipate our customer’s and partner’s needs and solve their challenges.

Being a part of Zebra Nation means being seen, heard, valued, and respected. Drawing from our diverse perspectives, we collaborate to deliver on our purpose. Here you are a part of a team pushing boundaries to redefine the work of tomorrow for organizations, their employees, and those they serve.

You have opportunities to learn and lead at a forward-thinking company, defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes that you care about – locally and globally. We’ve only begun reimagining the future – for our people, our customers, and the world.

Let’s create tomorrow together.

This role will drive technical architecture and management of services engineering teams within the Software Solutions business unit. These products focus on empowering front-line workers using Zebra (and other) hardware to be more effective in their roles. Our software solutions combine the power of the cloud with IoT, big data analytics, and machine learning to put powerful insights and capabilities into the hands of our customer’s workers in real-time. We serve customers in various verticals, including transport & logistics, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing.

Responsibilities:Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Working with cross-functional, Agile development teams to evaluate, design and architect cloud native solutions.

Collaborate across functions to define the system architecture and ensure the integrity of the design by defining SLOs.

Setting the technical direction and decisions of a solution, including selecting frameworks, identifying dependencies, writing technical requirements and driving continuous improvement.

Drive requirements for CI/CD, automation scripts, load performance testing, auto-scaling and monitoring tools capable of operating solutions with minimal manual intervention (understanding DevOps).

Evaluate work upon completion to ensure technical KPIs have been met and will drive functional excellence initiatives. Works effectively in a fast-paced, global environment supporting high-demand solutions.

Brings in best industry practices, processes and architecture tools and is able drive efficiency.

Brings in culture of innovation across the team to create differentiation to the products in a rapid way.

Qualifications:Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree required in an appropriate engineering discipline

15+ years of experience product Engineering with 10+ years of experience in cloud-based enterprise systems architecture. Specifically on Work Force Management or related B2B or ERP like systems. Greenfield and brownfield experience is preferred.

10+ years managing teams with direct reports.

Preferred qualifications:

Master’s degree preferred

Experienced hands-on architect. Enjoys active prototyping, design and code reviews, production incident handling and service evolution.

Experience with highly Agile development teams and large-scale system creation.

Experience in GCP and API development, including externally exposed APIs.

Excellent communication skills and the ability to create architecture diagrams and distill complex technical subjects in order to present updates to executive leaders.

Real-world experience in cloud native product development, including delivering a software solution through to production.

Proven problem solver and impediment remover, identifies issues, finds solution to blockers and helps resolve technical issues quickly to achieve goals.

Eager to evaluate the pros and cons of different technical solutions and determine how best to apply different cloud capabilities.

Drives innovation and acts as evangelist for technology improvements.

Cloud native architecture and delivery experience at scale for B2B customer base.

Knowledge of variety of database and datastore technologies and how best to utilize each (RDBMS, Distributed SQL, DeltaLake, bucket/blob storage, & document stores such as MongoDB and BigTable).

Working knowledge of building compelling back-end application frameworks.

Strong interest in product development and platform approach to system design.

Understand ways to incorporate Machine Learning and AI into a larger system design.

Familiarity with a variety of API and client/server communication technologies such as gRPC/Protocol Buffers, OpenAPI, GraphQL, MQTT, Kafka, MongoDB/Realm.

Working knowledge of Kubernetes and Service Mesh.

Familiar with load-testing, scaling services, right-sizing and cost management.

Familiar with Infrastructure-as-Code approach to cloud deployment via Terraform and Helm.

Working knowledge of several computer languages, especially modern Java and Javascript.

Solid understanding of continuous integration, continuous deployment and operations concepts.

Experience in a broad range of Google Cloud Platform services and capabilities, preferred.

Zebra is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability and protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Salary:

USD 194000.00 - USD 291000.00 Yearly

Salary offered will vary depending on your location, job-related skills, knowledge, and experience.

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