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Principal System Architect guiding LI-COR Environmental’s connected products and cloud platforms. Defining reliable, secure, scalable architectures across devices, data, applications, and AWS.
Responsibilities:
- Define and maintain the target architecture, system boundaries, data models, integration patterns, and technical roadmap for connected products and cloud platforms
- Lead architecture reviews for services, APIs, data pipelines, databases, identity, applications, deployment patterns, and device-to-cloud communication
- Simplify the platform by identifying unnecessary coupling, duplicate processing, fragile patterns, and services that should be consolidated, redesigned, or retired
- Guide platform modernization and the use of managed cloud services based on product needs, customer continuity, cost, portability, security, reliability, and operational burden
- Maintain architecture decisions and documentation so LI-COR retains the knowledge, access, data portability, and technical control needed for future decisions
- Guide how devices produce data and how cloud services receive, process, store, and present it, including schemas, batching, retries, deduplication, derived data, and retention
- Partner with Firmware and Hardware Engineering to identify connectivity, scalability, reliability, support, and cost implications early in product development
- Review new products and sensor integrations for downstream effects on cloud services, storage, analytics, applications, and cost-to-serve
- Define end-to-end observability and nonfunctional requirements for availability, performance, security, privacy, scalability, recovery, and supportability
- Partner with Engineering and IT and DevOps on CI/CD, infrastructure as code, release architecture, incident response, disaster recovery, vulnerability remediation, and operational readiness
- Provide technical leadership during significant incidents and recurring performance or connectivity issues, driving root cause correction and durable improvement
- Ensure platform designs support applicable validation, data separation, retention, privacy, auditability, and customer contractual requirements
- Serve as a technical partner to the Software and Cloud leader and as an architecture authority across engineering, product, science, quality, and operations
- Remain hands-on through backend design and implementation, prototypes, technical investigations, code reviews, and resolution of high risk production issues
- Translate product intent into technically complete approaches and communicate tradeoffs, risks, costs, and recommendations to technical teams and business leaders
- Mentor engineers and strengthen architecture capability across employees and partners
- Act as LI-COR's technical counterpart with cloud, data, connectivity, and engineering partners
- Other job related duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience
- Typically 12 or more years of software and cloud engineering experience, including significant experience as a system, solution, platform, or principal architect for production systems
- Demonstrated architecture ownership for a commercial IoT, connected device, industrial, scientific, telemetry, or other high volume data platform
- Deep experience with AWS or a comparable public cloud, including compute, containers, networking, databases, storage, identity and access, observability, security, resiliency, and infrastructure as code
- Strong backend engineering and API design skills, with hands-on proficiency in at least one modern backend language
- Experience with event driven and distributed systems, device ingestion, message delivery, high volume time series data, data modeling, and data lifecycle management
- Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, incident response, and secure software delivery at production scale
- Ability to connect architecture decisions to delivery effort, operational cost, product economics, and customer impact
- Strong communication, technical judgment, systems thinking, and the ability to lead through influence across teams and external partners
- Effective oral and written communication skills in English
- Master's degree is preferred
- Preferred: architecture spanning embedded devices or firmware, cellular or gateway connectivity, cloud ingestion, web or mobile applications, and analytics
- Preferred: regulated, validated, or quality controlled systems with requirements for data access, retention, privacy, auditability, and change control
- Preferred: platform modernization, microservice simplification, globally distributed teams, or blended employee and contractor delivery models
- Preferred: professional level cloud certification or equivalent practical expertise
Benefits:
- Periodic travel to LI-COR locations, partner sites, or team working sessions may be required
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