Senior Principal Domain Architect

Scope of the Role:  

• Direct Reports: ​This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports​  

Key Responsibilities 

• Design and maintain architecture for the assigned products in alignment with Syniverse’s standards. 

• Analyze business and technical requirements to develop domain-specific solutions. 

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to project teams during solution implementation. 

• Define domain-specific standards, best practices, and governance frameworks. 

• Conduct technology evaluations and recommend tools, platforms, or systems to optimize domain performance. 

• Stay up to date with emerging trends and technologies in the domain. 

• Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and enterprise architecture guidelines. 

• Work collaboratively with other of Syniverse Architecture leads to identify synergies and reuse opportunities across the organization. 

• Identify and overlook the creation of shared components and the re-use of the same according to the Enterprise guidelines. 

• Act as a mentor and SME to other team members. 

Experience, Education, and Certifications:  

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience 

• 10+ years of experience in a large-scale product development environment 

• Relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, AWS Solutions Architect, CISSP) are a plus. 

• Domain architecture capabilities demonstrated through experience and a proven track record, at an advanced level, across many of the following dimensions: 

• Business Architecture: Functional modeling, business services, process flows and metrics; Understand key value drivers and their role in enterprise architecture 

• Data Architecture: data management, large-scale data stores and technologies, data modeling, data movement/ETL, data lineage, data governance 

• Integration Architecture: Messaging, queuing, transaction management, rollback/transactional boundaries, error handling, complex schema negotiation/review 

• API / Architecture: API management platforms, RESTful services implementations; federated security models 

• User Interface Architecture: tiered architecture, modern web application development concepts, desktop, mobile and phone platforms; user interface patterns, event-based architectures; understand User Experience concepts and value drivers. 

• Operations Architecture: high-availability, reliability, operability, failover, disaster recovery, capacity/performance management 

• Platforms / Networking: virtualization technologies; cloud operating models (private, public, hybrid); infrastructure knowledge on operating systems, partitioning, high-availability, platform management, network management; services 

• Security Architecture: security threats and technologies; secure software architecture and development, vulnerability assessment & penetration testing, security policies and corresponding audit requirements. 

Additional Requirements:  

• A self motivated, high performer who works well either independently or in a team setting, requiring little or no direct supervision. 

• Excellent analytical, multitasking, detail orientation and familiarity with testing and troubleshooting techniques. 

• Excellent prioritization and decision making skills in a fast paced, time sensitive environment. 

• Excellent control and follow-up skills. 

• Excellent customer service skills and demeanor, along with the ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical clients. 

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, when interacting with less-experienced staff, peers, senior staff, and customers.