EBSCO Information Services (EIS) provides a complete and optimized research solution comprised of e-journals, e-books, and research databases - all combined with the most powerful discovery service to support the information needs and maximize the research experience of our end-users. Headquartered in Ipswich, MA, EIS employs more than 2,700 people worldwide, most now working hybrid or remotely. We are the leader in our field due to our cutting-edge technology, forward-thinking philosophy, and outstanding team. EIS is a company that will motivate you, inspire you, and allow you to grow. Our mission is to transform lives by providing relevant and reliable information when, where, and how people need it. We are looking for bright and creative individuals whose unique differences will allow us to achieve this inclusive mission around the world.

Mission:

The System Architect is a Lean-Agile leader who has the technical responsibility for the overall architectural and engineering design of the system. The role will interface with business stakeholders, cross functional teams, and customers to solve problems by defining high-level functional and nonfunctional requirements, analyzing technical trade-offs, determining the major components, and defining the interfaces and collaborations between them. They also validate technology assumptions and evaluate alternatives. The System Architect serves as the primary architectural coach for each team on an Agile Release Train (ART), ensuring that team-led design runs in sync with the product/solution architecture and underlying platform architecture.

What you will do:

• Participate in analysis, definition, design and planning of our current and future solutions.
• Work directly with agile engineering teams from analysis to implementation.
• Own, develop, review, and enhance design artifacts and documentation.
• Work with internal customers, program team and stakeholders to establish high-level solution intent and direction.
• Plan and develop architecture in support of upcoming business features and capabilities.
• Establish critical nonfunctional requirements at the solution and team level.
• Focus on efficiency, security, scalability, usability, and cost controls.
• Apply system thinking, ability to see how parts interact with the whole.
• Promote team workflows that lead to continuous improvement.
• Contribute to a highly collaborative, inclusive, and empowered culture across teams.
• Participate in quarterly, company-wide planning exercises.
• Interact regularly with business stakeholders, program, and engineering teams about features under development.
• Participate in design/code reviews.

Who you are:

• A self-directed and rapid learner.
• Collaborative by nature, regardless of boundaries.
• Comfortable with ownership and accountability.
• Bias for quality and maintainability/scalability.
• Prepared, responsible, and proactive.
• Comfortable resolving ambiguity using facts.
• Comfortable with incremental improvement and MVP-type thinking.
• Empowered through humility and servant leadership behaviors.
• Goal, metric, and detail orientated.

• Comfortable making logical choices and accepting/addressing mistakes.
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical professionals.
• The ability to manage multiple priorities and efficiently balance between them.
• Passion for modern technology trends and approaches.
• Emotional intelligence, self-awareness, confidence, ability to manage conflict, empathy.
• Customer service and consultative orientation.
• A sense of urgency and a strong bias for action.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related field of study. (Master’s Degree preferred)
• 5+ years in an architect capacity focused on data engineering and building data pipelines.
• 5+ years of software development experience.
• 5+ years of experience with complex legacy systems built over many years.
• 3+ years of application experience designing and implementing data processing solutions.
• 3+ years of experience with big data architectures, ETL and data modeling.

Technical Stack:

• CI/CD Concepts and Approaches
• Apache Flink, Airflow
• NoSQL databases - MongoDB, AWS DynamoDB
• Relational databases – Oracle, SQL, RDS
• Kafka, MSK, Kinesis
• AWS Elasticsearch, Athena, S3, Glue, Batch, Kinesis, EKS, EC2
• AWS Networking, Communication Protocols and Security
• Java, Python, C#, C++
• Microservices Architecture
• CI/CD Concepts and Approaches
• Windows and Linux Operating System
• Atomic One Automation
• Streamsets

Preferred Skills:

• Demonstrate strong knowledge and experience by applying enterprise patterns to solving business problems.
• Experience running Agile methodology and applying Agile to data engineering.
• Outstanding organizational skills and experience managing complex calendars.
• Experience with web-based tools for collaboration and communication.

We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, sex, pregnancy status, age, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment. We comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable state or local law.