Principal Architect

Job description

About Liatrio

Liatrio is a boutique consulting firm that helps enterprises deliver software faster, safer and more efficiently. Our work is dual mode: engineering delivery and people enablement. We lead DevOps transformations in many different industries, anywhere from financial institutions to healthcare providers to the department of defense.

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for someone with extensive experience as a Enterprise Architect, Strategic Architect, Field CTO, Head of DevOps, Head of Engineering, or Head of a Cloud Center of Excellence, who is passionate about both best practices in modern enterprise architecture and enabling clients through transferring knowledge, coaching, training, and upskilling.

The Principal Architect is a stakeholder and decision maker Liatrio’s direction, and accountable for strategic technical direction of a major engagement or several smaller engagements, building and maintaining client relationships as a trusted technical advisor, and overall technical engagement success. Internally, this role will work with Executive and Senior leaders as Liatrio scales. This role is is responsible for the code quality architecture, and technical direction of multiple workstreams.

Titles that can correspond to our work: Senior Technical Director, Senior Technical Principal, Principal Architect, Managing Director, Enterprise Architect, Strategic Architect, Senior Director of Technical Professional Services, Senior Director of Platform Engineering, Senior Director of Cloud, Vice President of Engineering, Head of Cloud Center of Excellence, Head of DevOps.

Who You Are

Liatrio lives and breathes the following traits; people on our team tend to have a combination of the following qualities:

- Willingness and hunger to learn

- Devotion to open communication and transparency

- Value collaboration and willingness to share responsibilities across internal and client work

- Effectively communicate in difficult conversations

- Desire to solve complex problems - interpersonal, technical, and business

- Ability to acknowledge shortcomings and provide solutions

- Empathy towards others

- Appreciate mentoring and helping others grow

- Navigate ambiguity and frequent change

What You Do

This is a Senior Director - level role. You thrive building relationships as a trusted technology advisor with clients, guiding and influencing the long-term technical direction of their transformation, and guiding teams through this work.

We each bring varying degrees of knowledge to the table. You will have extensive experience in most of the below areas but not necessarily all of them. This is not a comprehensive list; there may be other equally valuable skills and experience you bring that are not listed here.

Technology Strategy & Delivery Excellence

• Lead architectural design and drive technology strategy - Partner with Strategic Principal to create SOWs, working closely with the C-suite, Liatrio delivery leadership, and client stakeholders to advise, drive, and evolve the enterprise architecture and POVs in one or more technical domains
• Delivery strategy - Working closely with leadership, Liatrio team members and the client, contribute to and evolve the overall strategy for the DevOps technical engagement
• Trusted advisor - Guide clients on technical and engineering methodological best practices, provide broad technical influence, share industry insight, anticipate industry changes, advocate for DevOps cultural and be a transformational consultant (remove political, financial, mental, social impediments)
• Client relationship - Accountable for an account to build, grow, and maintain Liatrio relationships with the CTO/CIO/Chief Architect, executive, and key customer stakeholders
• Set and drive technical roadmaps - Architect enterprise solutions, reduce technical debt, balancing constraints to achieve strategic goals, provide oversight for workstreams solving complex engineering challenges, and guide and collaborate with with both Liatrio and client architects and engineers
• Oversight and accountability Anticipate objectives and conflicting points of view; reduce complexity and clarify the most important technical work for clients and Liatrio

Team Development

• Team morale and alignment - Accountable for overall morale and well-being of the Liatrio team
• Direct reports - 4-8 team members of varying experience levels, coaching/mentoring with weekly 1:1s, real time feedback, and formal feedback monthly & bi-annually
• Team accountability - Drive best practices, mentor across teams, proactively assist teams at first signs of struggle and, balance delivery with internal projects
• Staffing needs & demands - Identifies and maps capabilities of the team to client needs, advise leadership and PeopleOps on hiring, onboarding, and rotation to prevent burnout

Liatrio Growth

• Customer growth & expansion - Support Strategic Principle & sales team’s work in providing an excellent customer experience, identifying opportunities for expansion, promoting Liatrio, and validating SOWs
• Liatrio IP development - Leveraging your industry knowledge and Liatrio’s insights to create accelerators that will be valuable to future engagements, support our internal efforts, and grow the community

Tools and Technologies

• As a technology leader, we expect you’ll have significant experience with most of the tools and technologies we frequently use with our clients. While we know it’s impossible to be an expert on all the tools available, for this Principal Architect position we expect you to be an SME in one or more areas, communicate with C-Level stakeholders and client technical SMEs,be able to perform advanced tasks in all of the below areas independently, and able to train or upskill client and colleague engineers.
• Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Platform Engineering, Data Center Architecture, Systems Architecture
• Build systems, using technologies like Circle CI, Argo CD, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab
• Infrastructure as Code, like Terraform or Cloud Formation
• Cloud native technologies, such as Kubernetes and Istio
• Cloud providers, like Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud
• Observability, through tools such as Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Grafana, DataDog or Zipkin
• Modern source control management systems and branching strategies
• End-to-end automation of software delivery (CI/CD)
• Pushing patterns and practices to minimize future technical debt
• Application Development, comfortable reviewing code and empathizing with developers across the SDLC
• Training and mentoring others on building solutions and smart developer behaviors (CI/CD/DDD/TDD/BDD)
• Pushing patterns and practices to minimize future technical debt

Specifics

• Full benefits including unlimited PTO, funded HSA option, 401k match, monthly LiveWell stipend, and quarterly company bonus
• Annual base salary: $216,000- $264,000, depending on experience

Requirements

• Employment eligibility: must be authorized to work in the United States or Canada without the need for sponsorship.
• Travel: we divide our time between working remotely and visiting our clients’ sites. This role will be onsite with the client approximately 50%, which can include commuting, majority US travel, and occasional international travel.

Liatrio is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company and strive to create a culture of inclusion. We do not discriminate, nor do we tolerate harassment, on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.

We want our process to be accessible for everyone. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, or you require a religious accommodation, and you wish to discuss potential accommodations related to applying for employment at our company, please contact [email protected].