Software Architect – Wind River Analytics & Observability Platform

Software Architect – Wind River Analytics & Observability Platform

Job Location: Ottawa, ON

 ABOUT WIND RIVER 

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.  

Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world.  Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone. 

The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world. 

 About The Role

As a Software Architect and utilizing your extensive experience around data and cloud analytics, data modeling, machine learning, observability, and Kubernetes, you will have the opportunity to architect the Wind River Analytics and Observability product to monitor critical infrastructure and workloads.

Who You Will Work With:

• Product Line Managers, Engineering Project Managers, Development Managers, developers, and other architects to define and plan ongoing feature development.
• Product Line Managers, Sales, and customer architects to determine software requirements.
• Opportunity to engage with and contribute to various open-source communities.

Your Responsibilities:

• Design of overall analytics and observability architecture and features for Wind River Analytics and Observability product.
• Oversee integration of Analytics features, design of new features, scoping of work, defining approaches with colleagues and upstream communities.
• Work with other architects to define technical roadmap for Wind River Analytics.
• Research, design, and write specifications and methodologies in cooperation with other architects.
• Investigate new technologies and techniques and research ongoing industry developments.
• Work closely with Customers, Engineering Project Managers, Development Managers, and other Architects to define and plan ongoing feature development.
• Direct customer engagement and travel may be required.
• Generate outward facing whitepapers, blogs, presentations and talks at conferences.
• Mentor more junior developers in technology, industry best practices, procedures, and concepts.

Core Competencies:

• Significant experience in a senior technical / architect role with extensive experience in Cloud, Analytics and Observability software development.
• Skills in cloud and micro-service architecture are necessary, coupled with real product deployments requiring high scale, extensibility, security, performance, reliability, and usability.
• Experience evaluating open-source components and emerging technologies, considering functional and architectural qualities, then documenting & defending recommendations on best options (make/buy/partner decisions).
• Product development experience in a higher-level language, e.g., Python, Golang, Javascript
• Technical experience:
  • Kubernetes, Prometheus, Kafka, Grafana, Fluentd, OpenTelemetry, OpenSearch and Elastic Stack
  • Cloud Native observability and analysis technologies, including open standards
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and GCP
  • Advanced analytics features using statistical techniques and machine learning, e.g., Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Application Performance Monitoring (APM), or Predictive Maintenance
• Experience working with and participating in open-source communities and working effectively in an open-source development environment.
• Familiarity with Agile development and DevOps are a significant asset.
• Excellent interpersonal communication, teamwork, and leadership skills.
• Comfortable working in a distributed development environment with occasional business travel.
• Proven ability to work across many technology areas, act proactively and own a problem.
• Able to enthusiastically work, interact with and educate diverse groups such as sales, marketing, business development, partners, support, etc.

BENEFITS 

• Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid Work.
• Company-sponsored health, dental, and life insurance.
• Income protection through short and long-term disability coverage.
• Matching RRSP.
• Vacation and various time off policies to encourage work-life balance.
• Well-being programs: Employee assistance program, mental well-being through Unmind.
• Learning benefits: LinkedIn Learning subscription and seminars.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY 

Wind River is committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.  Wind River will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on these characteristics. 

To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com. 

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