Job Description

Principal Architect

Location: Asia Pacific, India, Bangalore

Ref: JOHNCRANEAPAC01478

Division: John Crane

Job Function: Research Development



Principal Architect is a senior position working closely with various stakeholders inside and outside R&D team to bring overall view of system, it's interactions and solutions based on the various use cases. This person will consult with and provide guidance and advice to our development teams to guide their efforts to build industry leading products for cloud environments. This person is expected to be hands-on, an accomplished practitioner with at least one of the major cloud providers AWS, Azure, and/or Google. The person has worked through various hardware and embedded system designs and has a good level of understanding on processors, hardware design concepts, embedded software and firmware design and development.

The person fit for this role will carry an end-to-end understanding of tech stack starting from IoT hardware, firmware, application, cloud.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provides technical leadership and guidance to multiple development teams including hardware and software. Owns both hardware and software architecture and design.
• Works on complex technical problems and provides solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious.
• Propose architectural design in alignment with business requirements and able to justify technically the design considerations between the different available technologies.
• Ability to prototype and change technical course at short notice based on feedback.
• Provides hands-on technical design and implementation ensuring technologies are successfully incorporated into our environments
• Assess, review, test and implement various architectures and design patterns and work with the delivery teams to ensure alignment to the architecture.
• Have oversight over the architecture, working with your technical leads to ensure the systems and solutions you develop are flexible, loosely coupled and deliver performance that is appropriate for business need.
• Ensure an efficient software methodology is in place, aligned to agile / lean principles, learning, and iterating frequently, highly collaborative and regularly improved.
• Align to the DevOps principles and toolsets being established with high degrees of automation throughout the development process. Continuous integration, continuous deployment and continuous operational monitoring are baseline goals.
• Ensure that security, reliability, and performance are embedded into the team skills, development process and architecture.
• Engage across the organization with business partners to gain buy-in on prioritization, with agreement on the key performance metrics which will be impacted.
• Excellent knowledge of modern platforms and tools, using the correct product where appropriate, especially open source and open standards.
• Role model self-driven skill development within the team, promoting learning events and facilitating individual needs.
• Help develop and participate in wider skill development and recruitment activities such as hackathons, conference events, university partnerships, etc.
• Comply with all applicable U.S. export control and security regulations.
• Other duties as required.

Diversity & Inclusion

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.

The Individual

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Electronics or Computer Science. Master degree is preferred.
• Minimum 15 years of industry experience with all of those in the relevant skills required for this job.
• Experience with Linux as both a development and a deployment environment.
• Experience with AWS or Azure infrastructure; ability to set up and manage a large corporate cloud. (AWS preferred)
• Demonstrated understanding of containers with Docker, Kubernetes
• Knowledge of DevOps tools such as Docker and/or Terraform is necessary (Salt, Puppet, Chef, Jenkins, etc)
• Proven experience in deploying and migrating live solutions in the cloud.
• Strong unit testing and reporting skills is a must.
• Experience implementing Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery processes in engineering teams
• Experience managing and integrating test automation into various points in a deployment pipeline
• Knowledge of Code Coverage Tools in the following languages: C++, JavaScript, Python
• Advanced knowledge of cloud technologies and cloud infrastructure, including networking, VPCs, VGWs, VPNs, DNS.
• Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure components and experience with Business continuity and long term data management in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with software development projects from the documentation to task management and through delivery
• High level knowledge of electronic design of schematic, board layout, prototyping and testing of digital/analog and mixed signals circuits
• Knowledge of embedded systems using various microcontrollers, FPGA's, ADC's and DAC's
• Experience with certifying bodies and certification processes (e.g. UL, ATEX, IECEx, CSA, FCC, EMI), is an added advantage
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to both technical and non-technical audience
• Proven ability to articulate and present a technical strategy to cSuite executives
• Detail-oriented, with excellent analytical, technical, and problem-solving skills

About Smiths

At Smiths we apply leading-edge technology to design, manufacture and deliver market-leading innovative solutions that meet our customers' evolving needs, and touch the lives of millions of people every day. We are a FTSE100, global business of around 14,600 colleagues, based in 50+ countries. Our solutions have a real impact on lives across the planet, enabling industry, improving healthcare, enhancing security, advancing connectivity and supporting new homes. Our products and services are often critical to our customer s' operations, while our proprietary technology and high service levels help create competitive advantage. We welcome colleagues with a curious mind, who are happy with responsibility, enjoy a challenge and are attracted by the idea of working at a business with a 170+ year history of innovation, and five global divisions, all experts in their field.

About John Crane

John Crane is a global leader in rotating equipment solutions, supplying engineered technologies and services to process industries. The company designs and manufactures a variety of products, including mechanical seals and systems, couplings, filtration systems and digital diagnostics technologies. John Crane customer service is accessed through a global network of more than 200 sales and service facilities in over 50 countries. Global reported revenue for fiscal year 2021 was in excess of $1 billion USD. John Crane is part of Smiths Group, a global leader in applying advanced technologies for markets in threat and contraband detection, energy, medical devices, communications, and engineered components.