Solutions Architect-Design Infrastructure (12+ years)

Summary: The role requires a deep understanding of agile principles, excellent leadership skills, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams including architects, business stakeholders, DevOps engineers, product owners, product managers and data engineers to ensure the successful delivery of solutions that meet business objectives. Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand their requirements and translate them into technical specifications and solution designs. Responsibilities: Provides technical leadership in the IT system design activities Guidance for reviewing detailed application, software, and system components across a variety of technology stacks Responsible for ensuring that architectural solutions meet technical and functional requirements Work cross functionally review existing system architecture and recommend improvements in engineering reviews to determine any ambiguities Leads the investigation and scoping of change requests to determine the scale of work to be done and estimate the timeframe and input required Determine system loads and volumes as input into infrastructure requirements Ensure that proposed and existing systems architectures are aligned with the company’s goals standards and strategies Accountable for the design and development of new systems and solutions Ensure that new systems and solutions conform to current system architecture and/or align to strategic system architectural direction Advises on architectural analysis, evaluation, and design of systems that support and seek to solve complex business and technical problems Ensure that system architecture is delivered in the form of robust and scalable solutions to business problems and needs Identify, evaluate, and assess risks in order to mitigate them and eliminate any factor that may interfere or hinder the delivery of the architectural solution and dependent functional requirements Advises on the implementation of architectural governance, standards, metrics for measuring, monitoring and improving architecture Owns the identification of potential problems that could be remediated by more effective architectural solutions Ensure team members understand system architectural implications of requirements Qualifications: Minimum qualifications: Master’s degree or equivalent practical experience in Software Engineering or Computer Science 12 to 15 years of experience working in chip design industry and/or IT EDA field Passionate about technology, innovation, cloud, DevOps, automation, CICD, Big Data, ML Ops, and technically creative Strong analytical and technical IT skills – you are a fast learner, and think outside the box Outgoing personality with a total quality mindset and solution-oriented, Customer-centric and no IT service provider mind set (SLAs, siloed). Willing to go the extra mile and stretch beyond normal expectations when there is a need to complete a critical action or a break fix Valuing the importance of working together with others in order to be successful as a team and as part of a larger organization Able to identify and recommend appropriate continuous improvement opportunities Experience with DevOps tools and platforms like Git, Ansible, Satellite, ServiceNow, SPLUNK, Salt, Python, VMWare and AWS Experience with tools like EDA Tools, Flexera, LSF, Slurm, ETX is a plus NXP Introduction: NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) enables a smarter, safer and more sustainable world through innovation. As the world leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications, NXP is pushing boundaries in the automotive, industrial & IoT, mobile, and communication infrastructure markets. For more information, please visit our website https://www.nxp.com Career Development Opportunities The future starts here. Bright Minds. Bright Futures. We believe that a key component to growing our business is to develop our people. To enable you to grow your career at NXP, we offer online and offline learning opportunities to help you develop some of your core and professional skills. We Are NXP! Visit our careers website for more job information. Commitment At NXP. We recognize we can be a powerful change agent as we continue to deliver innovative solutions that advance a more sustainable future. We remain steadfast in our commitment to sustainability and making measurable year-on-year progress. Also, we aim to create an inclusive work environment and we will not tolerate racism, discrimination or harassment of any kind. We have programs in place focused on diversity, inclusion and equality.