Principal Architect

What's the role?:
HERE has placed the development of an Location Platform as a central building block of its strategy. Development of this platform will be driven by three functions, Product, Engineering and Architecture. HERE is looking for a
**Principal Architect (M/F/x)**, to lead the Design and Development of Applications and Location Services built on the HERE platform.

**Automotive domain** (services for Elecrical Vehicles charging stations, off-street and on-street parking, Software Defined Vehicles),
**Traffic data ingestion and processing and Traffic location services**.

We enable our customers to build targeted solutions using HERE Location Platform. The team, that you will be part of, focuses on
- Location Services such as Traffic, Routing, Rendering, Search, Geocoding, Positioning, Urban Mobility, including ingestion and processing of customer supplied data with potentially customer-specific algorithms.
- Location Applications such as Last Mile, Tracking, HERE Navigation, Supply Chain Solutions.

Our customers range from tech, media, and telecommunications, to automotive and retail.

Our collaborative environment offers a good work-life balance, challenging tasks in designing large-scale, high-throughput, secure, and performant cloud services, and freedom to find the right technical solution. Come join our team, shape the future, and change the world.

Who are you?:
You bring a hands-on pragmatic approach and an analytical mind-set with a sound theoretical basis. A background in developing complex distributed cloud systems is very beneficial to be able to successfully lead the architecture work:

- Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or similar field
- 3+ years of experience in delivering software products or systems in lead engineer or lead architect roles
- 5+ years of expert level coding skills in C++, Javascript/TypeScript, Java or Scala
- Hands-on experience in all phases of developing complex software systems including architecture, design, prototyping, implementation, testing and deployment
- Expert in RESTful API design, scripting, and deployment and testing automation
- Expert in high throughput data processing in multitenant cloud systems using technologies like AWS ElastiCache, AWS S3, Splunk, AWS RDS
- Experience in Kubernetes and/or Docker technology, understanding of microservices architectural style
- Ability to communicate complex systems and solutions in an easy-to-understand way to non-technical stakeholders
- Very good communication skills and be able to comfortably work in global environment
- Excellent written and spoken English skills

**Nice to have**:

- Experience with digital mapping industry and related location-based services
- Fluency in architectural areas of security, network, high availability/reliability
- Experience with Spark and/or Flink
- Hands-on knowledge of Agile processes

**What do we offer?**
- Challenging problems to solve
- Work that makes a difference in the world; your work will have direct impact on our products and customers
- Freedom to decide how to perform your work
- Variety in the types of projects
- Feedback so you will know how well you are doing
- Collaborative, supportive colleagues
- A great work-life balance
- 30 paid vacation days
- Flexible working hours
- Competitive salary plus bonus
- BVG company ticket
- Fantastic & talented people from 60+ countries worldwide
- Brown bag talks, team events, BBQ on the rooftop and more

Our culture is founded on openness, collaboration and honesty, with colleagues who are brilliant in their field, resilient, and above all, strive for the best.

Our offices foster an open environment where good ideas are encouraged and embraced. There's also plenty of flexibility within the company, options for achieving an ideal work/life balance and various other extras on offer.

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HERE is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

Who are we?:
HERE Technologies is a location data and technology platform company. We empower our customers to achieve better outcomes - from helping a city manage its infrastructure or a business optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destination safely.

At HERE we take it upon ourselves to be the change we wish to see. We create solutions that fuel innovation, provide opportunity and foster inclusion to improve people’s lives. If you are inspired by an open world and driven to create positive change, join us. Learn more about us. Watch Video