Architect

Job description
Job Title: Principal Architect

At IDEXX Veterinary Software, we're building a vertical SaaS platform for animal health that requires significant technical expertise to deliver.

Solutions for practice management (PIMS), diagnostics, payments, client engagement, analytics & insight plus many more are part of our portfolio of cloud platforms and applications.

We're on a mission to build the best health technology business and need your help to make it happen.

Key Responsibilities:

Drive the ongoing scale and fit-for-purpose architecture at IDEXX by championing the adoption and evolution of architectural designs and engineering practices across all teams.
Create architecture for multiple projects, including those of higher complexity that span disciplines and systems.
Ensure current architectural designs remain effective and scalable for future needs.
Advocate for architectural and engineering excellence across teams.
Influence and guide high-level technical visions, aligning them with Engineering and Product goals.
Align the architecture roadmap with the product roadmap, ensuring mutual influence and synergy.
Champion organizational processes to enhance the ability of product engineering teams to deliver value.
Oversee the definition and evolution of IDEXX's engineering values, principles, practices, standards, and behaviors across all teams.
Requirements:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, Engineering or a related field.
Minimum of 10 years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years as a senior technical subject matter expert.
Proven technical people leader and influencer.
Experience with principles and practices related to cloud technologies.
Experience with modernising legacy code and decoupling monolithic solutions into modern architectural designs that meet business needs.
Experience working in a rapidly growing technology company.