Web Application Architect 4
Bloomberg Open At a glance
Mid-level Engineering Leadership role at Bloomberg. Arlington · full-time · $175,000–$225,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Set architecture and design direction across teams, shaping web applications and major services for scale, availability, and performance
- Build and support customer-facing applications hands-on as part of a DevSecOps team, from design through delivery and maintenance
- Guide technical choices by spotting product-level risks early and making decisions that prevent problems
- Lead cross-team initiatives spanning business areas, present solutions, and help shape the team’s technology roadmap
- Explain technical approaches to non-technical colleagues and influence engineering practices across multiple areas
What you bring
- A related bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
- At least seven years building commercial software applications using modern engineering methods
- Experience with cloud technologies and architectures such as AWS, serverless, event-driven systems, or microservices
- A record of improving the stability, performance, and scalability of business-critical systems
Who this fits
This role suits a hands-on architect who can steer work across teams while still designing and delivering software. You’ll need to connect technical decisions with cost and long-term complexity, and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical colleagues. The position is based in Arlington, Virginia.
From the employer
What you will do:
Architect, design and deliver high-quality code by promoting and defining INDG best practices.
Serve as a strong influencer on technical trends across multiple areas.
Deliver and present solutions for large initiatives across multiple verticals.
Design, develop scalable, high availability, high performance products with a deep understanding of front end and back-end architectures.
Shape broad architecture; ships multiple large services, complex libraries, or major pieces of infrastructure.
Identify technology strategic growth opportunities that enable INDG to grow as a business.
Lead cross team efforts and projects that span multiple domains and business units.
Participate in providing technology roadmap/vision for the team.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams and communicate technical solutions to non-technical people across the organization.
Participate in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
You need to have:
Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience.
7 years of software development experience and/or commensurate skills building commercial applications with modern software engineering principles and practices.
Knowledge across multiple technical domains and an understanding of how and why technologies are deployed and utilized at INDG.
A track record of building stability, performance, and scalability across major business-critical systems.
A clear understanding of the relationship between complexity and cost and a record of successfully devising and implementing long-term strategies to lower it.
Demonstrated experience of cloud technologies i.e. AWS, Serverless, Event Driven Architecture, SOA, MicroServices, Microfrontend, CI/CD, Infrastructure as code, and other modern technologies.
Demonstrated experience of professional software engineering practices and the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, architecture/design patterns, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
Compensation Range:
$175,000.00-$225,000.00Placement in the salary range will be decided upon completion of the interview process. Salary determination will be determined based on factors including but not limited to relevant experience, demonstrated skills related to the requirements of the role, education, certifications, and geographic location.
Equal Opportunity
Bloomberg Industry Group maintains a continuing policy of non-discrimination in employment. It is Bloomberg Industry Group’s policy to provide equal opportunity and access for all persons, and the Company is committed to attracting, retaining, developing, and promoting the most qualified individuals without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or maternity/parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law (“Protected Characteristic”). Bloomberg prohibits treating applicants or employees less favorably in connection with the terms and conditions of employment, in all phases of the employment process, because of one or more Protected Characteristics (“Discrimination”).
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