Company Overview
Spectrum’s Product and Technology team creates, develops, and operates the nation’s fastest mobile service, most reliable internet service, most viewed live TV app, and the most advanced WiFi, serving nearly 100 million users and 500 million devices. We are transforming the next era of connectivity and entertainment experiences. The diversity of experience available within Spectrum’s Product and Technology team is unmatched and there are opportunities to grow your career as a designer, architect, engineer, developer, operator, or data scientist. We are creative, disciplined, hard-working, complex-problem solvers that believe in collaborating to deliver the highest quality customer experience.

This position is eligible to work in a hybrid work model (combination of in-office and remote days)

JOB SUMMARY
The Principal Architect I is responsible for the design of one or more applications or services within an organization, and will be part of one or more Agile teams. This position has a balanced mix of technical and business skills, and will often work with an enterprise architect for strategic direction. This individual would support 2+ teams that currently focus on middle tier ecommerce flows. They would be a hands-on technical lead who will not only code, but also design new functionality and communicate closely with stakeholders and architects in other parts of the company.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Actively and consistently supports all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.

Partner with key stakeholders to provide technical direction.

Design and provide support for the organization's application systems, components and/or infrastructure for an assigned technology domain.

Provide architectural framework for application systems and/or information system development, maintenance, and enhancement efforts.

Work closely with developers and engineers to develop road maps for applications, align development plans, and to ensure effective integration among application systems, information systems and infrastructure.

Keep current with trends and technological innovations in the Cable and IT industry in order to contribute to the execution of proofs-of-concept for new approaches and platforms.

Understand the interactions between systems, applications, and services within the environment, and evaluate the impact of changes, additions or decommissions.

Execute and document tests that ensure performance, reliability, scalability and security requirements.

Collaborate with leadership and key stakeholders to define and develop technology strategy, technology standards, roadmaps, and practices.

Address problems relating to systems integration, compatibility, and multiple platform integration.

Participate in collaborations with business and technical teams to review conflicts/gaps between functional goals and existing capabilities.

Participate in business unit and may participate in enterprise project prioritization planning with executive management.

Provide technical assistance to development and operations project teams on new system projects and existing systems, and provide formal skills development training.

Adhere to best practices for code development, API design, version control, test automation and build automation.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Required Skills/Abilities and Knowledge

• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English
• Ability to plan, prioritize and organize effectively and independently multiple projects and tasks
• Ability to make decisions and solve problems while working under pressure
• Ability to show good judgment, initiative and to accomplish job duties
• Ability to build good working relationships with business owners and key stakeholders
• Proven analytical skills to solve complex technology and business problems
• Effective written, verbal and presentation skills to peers within the organization
• Effective business sense and sense of urgency to achieve business results
• Effective organizational and leadership skills
• Aptitude and eagerness to learn from a new environment and make an impact quickly
• Demonstrated knowledge of software development and delivery (cloud computing, containerization, high-availability, mobile apps, big data and machine learning)

Required Education
BA/BS in Information Technology, Computer Science, MIS or equivalent combination of education and experience

Required Related Work Experience and Number of Years
Cumulative experience with system installation, configuration, operations, software development, and/or database development - 8+ IAT601 335454-1 335454BR