Senior Software Architect

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company’s new website at: http://www.WabtecCorp.com.

It’s not just about your career… or your job title…it’s about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to go into uncharted waters…do things that haven’t been done to make yours and someone else's life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so! Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

Wabtec’s Precision Dispatch System (PDS) is an advanced software solution that provides real-time train dispatching functions that direct and control the movement of trains over a railroad network. The legacy system is being converted from a monolithic implementation to a cloud native and horizontally scaling platform with high availability aspects. A Software Reliability Architect, experienced with cloud native technologies is needed to lead a team to analyze and improve system performance and reliability.

REQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• 5-10 Years of experience in architecture, software design and cloud technologies
• In-depth understanding of software, software architecture and system level design patterns using Java and related software ecosystems

• Hands-on experience with cloud native technologies, deployment, and customer engagement.
• Experience in Red Hat technologies such as Quarkus, Open Shift, Red Hat SSO, RHEL.
• Experience with distributed SQL systems, messages systems such as AMQP, Kafka and cache systems such as Redis.
• Proficient in cloud networking and service mesh
• Working knowledge of Websockets
• Proven experience in delivering Highly Available application with zero planned downtime for mission critical system.
• Advanced understanding of Kubernetes, software design patterns for HA and observable microservices.
• Ability to understand the technology stack and its impact on the final product. Capable of efficiently conducting customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborate on personas.
• Superior knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle and strong collaboration history with Quality Engineering and Dev Ops teams.
• Advanced problem-solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments to others. Ability to break down complex problems and estimate level of effort.
• Understanding of microservice based and message driven architectures.
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team. Able to navigate difficult situations and accountability within a matrixed organization.
• Strategic and creative thinking to analyze issues that may arise and create solutions.
• Ability to respond positively to feedback and implement change in process and procedures as needed.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Spearhead initiatives to scrutinize and elevate system performance and reliability, evaluate performance and chaos results and identify infrastructure component optimizations.
• Drive system robustness from FMEA perspective/chaos experiments.
• Drive Infrastructure FMEA with respect to application.
• Lead maintainability NFR aka 0 planned downtime.
• Lead multi-region configuration to achieve 99.999 availability.
• Develop architecture and software design modifications to maximize performance and increase system reliability.
• Lead Application Observability, develop and improve instrumentation for monitoring and logging the health and availability of application.
• Lead and coordinate the domain technical and business discussions relative to architecture for PDS product.
• Engage frequently (80%) with the development team; facilitate discussions, provide clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing, and validation; contributes to design activities and decisions.
• Educate the engineering population on best practices, as well as coach and mentor junior te