15 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the cross-product architectural view across the marketing software portfolio, including boundaries, dependencies, information flows, duplication, and fragility.
- Define target architectures and roadmaps for consolidation, modernization, and structural improvement.
- Establish and steward standards for integration, interoperability, security, data handling, operability, and non-functional requirements.
- Create reference implementations, templates, and working examples to make architectural standards adoptable.
- Prototype significant decisions and contribute production-quality code to shared foundations.
- Review solution designs and technical proposals, establish an architecture assurance process, and advise on technology selection and investment decisions.
- Lead architecture discussions with technical and non-technical stakeholders and drive clear, documented decisions.
- Set engineering standards, coach engineers on architectural thinking, and grow architecture capability across the organization.
Requirements
- Extensive hands-on software engineering experience designing and building applications end to end, including several years in a principal engineer, architect, or equivalent senior technical role.
- Deep web application development expertise and fluency in at least one of Python or Java, with the ability to reason about and review the other.
- Hands-on experience with modern web frameworks and libraries such as React, FastAPI, Flask, Django, SpringBoot, and Hibernate.
- Strong grounding in relational data modeling, including Postgres or an equivalent database, and in APIs, service integrations, and event-driven interfaces.
- Practical experience with externally facing systems, authentication and authorization, content delivery, rate limiting, auditability, and associated security considerations.
- Experience leading architecture conversations to decisions with stakeholders who have competing priorities or limited technical backgrounds.
- Experience in advertising or marketing technology, including ad trafficking, campaign management, and creative asset management, is preferred.
- Experience introducing architecture practices such as ADRs, review forums, and published standards, and driving adoption, is preferred.
- Experience with platform and developer experience initiatives that reduced other teams' time to first release is preferred.
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About Apple
Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and services for consumers and professionals worldwide, including iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods, plus platforms like iOS/macOS and services such as the App Store, iCloud, Music, and TV+. Its business combines device sales with services and subscriptions and in-house silicon design. Founded in 1976, Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, and trades on NASDAQ as AAPL.