Software Architect
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Clarivate Analytics clients are the trailblazers and risk takers who come up with life-changing ideas. We're looking for our own trailblazers to help us keep providing clients some of the world's most trusted brands, spanning scientific and academic research, patent analytics, pharmaceutical and biotech intelligence and IP management.

We're an independent owned company with a rich heritage and a bold entrepreneurial mission. If you're excited by the thought of helping people and organizations go from new ideas to life-changing innovations faster, we're excited to consider you for a position at Clarivate.

This role is not for those who shrink from challenges. We have one of the most technically challenging problems that we are solving for and we are looking for a world-class technical problem solver and seasoned architect who is passionate to become our Software Architect for our Brand Protection solutions. Super powers are optional, but highly considered.

Our applications require crawling hundreds of market places, tens of thousands of websites at massive scale in organic ways across multiple geographies. Our landscape is evolving everyday as we must keep one step ahead of bad actors and ensure that our crawlers are not mistaken for malign behavior.

This ideal candidate for this role needs to bring hands-on architecture leadership, guidance and mentoring a team of truly impassioned and persistently curious engineers, be a close collaborator and trusted advisor to the Director of Engineering, and ensure the delivery of world-leading, robust and scalable solutions.

We are looking for a seasoned architect who is experienced with building new applications from scratch, as well as the ability to effectively refactor and integrate existing applications and strong understanding of Big Data and Analytics. An ideal candidate will be a thought-leader, with real-world business common sense, the ability to communicate clearly and collaborate across functions.

The efforts of the Software Architect will help brand owners fight serious online problems including web traffic diversion, counterfeiting, piracy and brand defamation. The candidate should have exceptional communication and negotiation skills, combined with experience guiding software and quality engineers and analysts in implementing production quality solutions.

Role Responsibilities

* Define a robust architecture for building new applications in the Brand Protection domain, leveraging and enhancing existing building blocks or creating new reusable components Provide technical leadership to the development team(s)
* Build early prototypes of product components and validate them for technical design and performance
* Understand the long-term business objectives and suggest technical strategies to meet those objectives by introducing innovation through technology
* Be a strong communicator of the architectural blueprints of our product to mobilize the rest of the organization to build solutions that fit our customer's needs -
* Be responsive and decisive on adjusting our product architecture as customer requirements, market conditions and technology evolve
* Partner with others inside and outside the engineering organization to gather all requirements to formulate appropriate architecture required to provide system functionality, deciding when to advocate and when to compromise to arrive at a mutually acceptable solution
* Work with the development team to translate the software architecture into design
* Actively participate in the development process, as needed
* Work closely with product management, engineering, quality assurance, sales and professional services teams throughout the organization

Minimum Requirements

* 10+ years' experience in hands-on development, application design in the delivery of software products
* 3+ years in an architect role in previous large scale software development projects, preferably SaaS delivery model
* BS required. Advanced degree (e.g. Masters in Computer Science) is preferred
* Comfortable in communicating architecture to all levels of management and customers - Excellent knowledge of software development methodologies and processes
* Track record that includes the design and release of high quality, high performance enterprise software product / application
* Strong analytical problem solving and decision making skills
* Strong time management, organization, and prioritization skills - Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, clients and prospects
* Possessing skills in the following technology areas:
* J2EE, Web Services, XML, SOAP, XSL, HTML / DHTML, HTTP
* Search engines: Apache Solr and / or Elasticsearch
* Thorough understanding of relational database design, OLAP and good understanding of NoSQL models (SQL, MDX, etc.)
* Hands-on experience with Microservices, Containers (Docker), Mesos and Marathon orchestrations
* Highly motivated with the ability to work on a multiple projects simultaneously

Winning Requirements

* Experience in developing software systems, which employ data mining, machine learning or statistical/econometric techniques, methods and algorithms
* Web Crawling (Apache Storm or similar)
* Microservice architecture
* Understanding / experience in the areas of Brand Protection / Anti-Piracy - Coordination of geographically distributed teams
* Agile development methodology
* Dealing with large data sets and developing analytic software using SQL, NoSQL and statistical tools
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It is the policy of Clarivate to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Clarivate will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.