Senior Application Architect

Company:

Boeing Vancouver is currently looking for a Senior Application Architect to join our team in Richmond, BC. This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Airline Technical Operations Software organization.

Why Choose Boeing Digital Technical Operations (or What We Offer) 

At Boeing Digital Tech Ops, you’ll be a part of a team that creates innovative digital solutions and analytics that drive the future and evolution of Digital Tech Ops and enable our customers to transform the way they do business. Using agile digital technology, our solutions optimize all aspects of the aircraft maintenance ecosystem including safety, environmental sustainability, and efficiency. 

Who We Are Looking For 

The Application Architect must have a broad technical background with experience in leading edge, cloud native, AI driven solutions and modernizing a large portfolio of legacy applications.  The candidate needs strong technology leadership, analytical skills, teamwork, and excellent communication skills. The candidate will need to communicate at different levels in the organization to other technical personnel, business leaders and customers. This role will drive innovative, evolutionary, reliable, scalable solutions that advance efficiency and safety in the aviation industry. 

Position Responsibilities:

• Partner with the Digital Tech Ops Portfolio Architects and leaders to understand the business and needs that drive technology decisions. 

• Create and execute a technology roadmap by working closely with portfolio architect and other leaders on execution.

• Focus on modernization of legacy, monolithic applications, and architecting innovative, greenfield applications. 

• Select strategies, patterns, practices and approaches for modernizing and refactoring legacy applications and enable product teams to adopt, all while continuing development and maintenance on existing applications. 

• Design applications to be adaptable, cost-optimized, cloud-native SaaS technologies in a globally distributed, multi-platform environment. 

• Leverage your knowledge and experience to make technology decisions that drive innovation and agility while minimizing risks and costs. 

• Own the creation of mechanisms and architectural artifacts that communicate technology adoption, decisions and how DAS applications are hosted, built and deployed. 

• Own the Architectural Standards and Practices while allowing differentiation specific to our business division goals. 

• Assist in evaluation of products for being well-architected and well-managed. 

• Work closely with Information Security Office and Enterprise Cloud to ensure security standards and regulatory compliance minimum requirements are adhered to.  

• Ability to work on proof of concepts and explore technical implementation options resulting in architectural decision records.

• Evaluate and assess a variety of non-traditional approaches to problem-solving by actively seeking out and considering alternative solutions beyond standard practices.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):           

• 10+ years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience.   

• 6+ years of experience working and executing with software development design patterns, methodology and life cycle, including:

• Legacy technology modernization and refactoring techniques such as domain driven design (DDD), event storming, strangler fig, transitional architectures, etc. 

• Experience with distributed, cloud-native, API and Microservices architecture including service orchestration 

• Experience with application performance management technologies, diagnostics, and issue resolution management 

• Experience in development frameworks, cloud native technologies and tools, such as CI/CD pipelines, UML, Java, .Net, Docker, Kubernetes, JavaScript, AWS/Azure Cloud 

• Experience with delivering High Availability (HA), resilient solutions that meet regulatory requirements and information security standards 

• 8+ years leading design/development of large scale applications with geographically distributed teams.

• Knowledge of industry data standards, such as S1000D and ATA-Specifications.

• Experience with Aviation OEM aircraft model-specific data domains.

• Proven experience to research, advise, compare, recommend and document technology solutions; ability to demonstrate and maintain method of keeping current on new technologies.

• Ability to understand the big picture and the inter-relationships of all positions and activities in the system, including the impact of changes in one area on another area. This includes the ability to see and understand the inter-relationships between components of systems and plans, anticipate future events, and apply the principles of systems thinking to accelerate performance.

• Must be legally able to work in Canada.

• Individual must not pose a risk for safeguarding of controlled goods.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor's degree or higher

• Knowledge of the Cloud Well-Architected principles 

• Designing Big Data solutions and Medallion architecture

• Knowledge of data transformation standards, such as XSLT.

• Strong interpersonal, communication and organization skills 

• Experience with enabling an organization centric targeted to business outcomes 

• Ability to inspire and lead 

• Experience with maintenance domains

Additional Information:

This requisition is for a locally hired position in Canada. The employer is Boeing Canada. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada. Benefits and pay are determined by Canada and are not on Boeing US-based payroll. This is not an expatriate assignment.

Starting salary will be based on year of post-secondary education completed, qualifications and experience.

Salary pay range - $110,000.00 - $195,000.00 CAD

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