Job Description

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

PIVOTAL’S STORY ( VIDEO )

As a recognized leader in disciplined agile and lean software development practices, Pivotal combines the Silicon Valley state of mind, modern approach, and infrastructure with organizations’ core expertise and values. Our cloud-native platform and suite of data tools drive software innovation for many of the world’s most admired brands, helping enterprises move at start-up speeds and with greater business agility. We optimize for change and teach next-generation developers to create and build new solutions, and are committed to open source and open standards.

Our methodology is about evolving, in both development and innovation, and our culture is empowering. Our 2,000+ employees across offices worldwide subscribe to an ethos of kindness. We make a point to bring empathy to each and every project, and are guided by a purposeful mission—to transform how the world builds software.

YOU

You are unique: as a curious, passionate, engaging, hands-on architect you will help customers realize the benefits of cloud native applications and architectures on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. You will also work closely with the Pivotal Cloud Foundry engineering and platform architect teams to transform the way our customers build and run their software.

US

Our mission is to make customers' use of our products and solutions successful, so that they can more effectively transform their business. Our cross-disciplinary team includes technical account leaders, data scientists, agile specialists, solutions architects, educators on Pivotal technology, and business transformation specialists.

YOUR DAY

In this role, you will:

• Work on small, focused projects (typically 6 or 10 weeks) in our office and/or at a customer location as part of a balanced team of architects, product managers and business people
• Help customers realize unprecedented returns by transforming existing applications, across a vast spectrum of complexity, language and framework types, to run using Cloud Native patterns and practices
• Coach and mentor customer developers, architects, product owners and operations people as we use agile/XP and techniques like TDD and CI/CD
• Continuously learn and be at the leading edge of Pivotal and industry trends

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

You are unique: as an exceptional, passionate, customer facing, hands-on architect you will help customers transform to realize the benefits of cloud native applications and architectures on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. You will also work closely with the Spring and Pivotal Cloud Foundry engineering teams to:

• Provide feedback on – and contributions to – the Spring and Cloud Foundry open source projects, potentially becoming a core committer
• Assist Pivotal’s customers in migrating existing apps to Pivotal Cloud Foundry
• Modernize customer applications, incrementally improving infrastructure and app architecture techniques
• Work with Pivotal’s customers to architect and build new cloud native apps
• Become an agent of change within customer organizations
• You are required to be available for, and willing to, travel at least 60% of your time

IDEAL SKILLS

• You are a great written and verbal communicator, capable of public speaking and presenting in front of customers, at user groups, etc.
• Comfortable in new situations with new clients
• Experience building distributed / service oriented / microservice-style and cloud based application architectures
• Have an understanding of – or implementation experience in – building Twelve-Factor applications, and using Domain Driven Design
• You are a Java expert, with experience and familiarity building modern Spring applications with Spring Boot; you have a strong background with Spring and related projects
• Experience building enterprise applications, including integration with COTS systems
• You are an Agile practitioner, familiar with extreme programming, test driven development, pairing, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and related techniques
• 8+ years of software development experience

PREFERRED SKILLS

• You are a polyglot programmer (you might have used JavaEE, C#, Go, etc.)
• Experience integrating with Netflix OSS components (Eureka, Hystrix, Ribbon, etc.)
• Experience with Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes

ABOUT PIVOTAL

Pivotal’s Cloud Native platform drives software innovation for many of the world’s most admired brands. With millions of developers in communities around the world, Pivotal technology touches billions of users every day. After shaping the software development culture of Silicon Valley's most valuable companies for over a decade, today Pivotal leads a global technology movement transforming how the world builds software.

Pivotal is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.