Mobile Solutions Architect

Job Description

The Web/Mobile Architect is an architect with a web/mobile development background who delivers future vision and transition roadmaps, technical solutions, team leadership and guidance across web and mobile domains with the focus on guest facing web/mobile applications. More broadly, this position enables enterprise transformation leveraging technology, people, processes, and cultural changes.  This individual provides patterns, design, and coordination without constraining -- in fact, encouraging -- the speed of innovation and business change. The Web/Mobile Architect provides strong leadership in architecture, design, and development of web/mobile applications and platforms. This person guides technology decisions and develops future state architectures and roadmaps that effectively support CCL enterprise business strategy. This role works closely with developers and analysts across multiple product teams, enterprise architects, and project/product stakeholders.

Essential Functions:

• Collaborate with delivery teams to determine technical direction and approach to system design and implementation.
• Stay on top of current and emerging technology trends and best practices. Evaluate and prototype potential technologies and overall solutions.
• Assist in shaping architecture, technical direction, culture, and processes for the company and web/mobile portfolios to achieve the desired business outcomes.
• Promote and foster professional development and growth among team members
• Provide input to project estimates and ensure they are reasonable and attainable.
• Manage resources via “dotted lines” as part of the overall architectural strategy.
• Create and maintain portfolio roadmaps, ensuring they drive best of breed architecture (including security), and align with company’s current and future business needs.
• Provide guidance and decision support to IT management and business partners.
• Demonstrate exceptional analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills. Come up to speed quickly in complex domains and effectively manage multiple concurrent activities
• Understand and comply with established corporate and IT technical standards and methodologies. Use and contribute to company standards and tools.
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards

Qualifications:

• Education:  bachelor’s degree in computer science, Math required.
• 3+ years’ experience as Architect required
• 7-10 years of overall professional IT experience
• Expertise in iOS, Android, HTML5, CSS3, and other mobile frameworks/accelerators 
• Experience with mobile analytics 
• Demonstrated deployments of enterprise or consumer-facing mobile software systems using industry standard environments including iOS, Android 
• Experience with Type Script, Swift/ Objective-C, java, HTML5/JS/CSS3 
• A thorough understanding of OOP, design patterns, iOS, Android, and enterprise in mobile application integration 
• Experienced in designing and developing mobile SDK and integrating mobile apps with web-services and external APIs 
• Understanding of mobile security protocols, analytics and social channel integration 
• Experience with one or more Mobile Development products or frameworks targeting multiple operating systems (e.g., write-once-deploy-many, HTML5/screen scrapers, etc.) 
• Strong experience with different Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) techniques: [a.] Expert level understanding of interfaces, inheritance and how they’re used. [b.] Solid knowledge of classes and functions and in what layer they should be placed. [c.] Solid understanding of the SOLID design principles
• Other advanced programming techniques: [a.] Expert level experience with an Inversion Control/Dependency Injection [b.] Solid experience with Test Driven Development. [c.] Entry-level Model View Presenter (MVP) pattern. 
• Strong experience with designing DB structures and strong DB development skills 
• Exposure to other application stacks such as Java and MEAN 
• Working knowledge of IAAS and PAAS solutions from cloud providers such as Azure and AWS.
• Solid knowledge of high availability architectures and disaster recovery architectures and processes.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Strong strategic capabilities with enterprise level foresight and mature judgment. 
• Solid IT implementation and solutions delivery experience.
• Strong interpersonal, facilitation and consensus building skills.
• Ability to obtain cooperation and build trust internally and externally.
• Mature judgment, solid credibility, and ethical.
• Ability to build positive working relationships with technology vendors and partners.
• Ability to communicate effectively and persuasively with management & peers.
• Experience managing technical team including interviewing, coaching, and developing people and teams.
• Ability to drive innovation in a practical, actionable way.
• A solid understanding of software development lifecycle, QA techniques using source code control repositories and n-tier debugging & testing.
• Solid knowledge of high availability architecture and disaster recovery architecture and processes.

Physical Demands:  Must be able to remain in a stationary position at a desk and/or computer for extended periods of time.  Requires regular movement throughout CCL facilities.

Travel:  Less than 25% with ship based travel likely.

Work Conditions:  Work primarily in a climate-controlled environment with minimal safety/health hazard potential. 

Work Location: This position is classified as “in-office.”  As an in-office role, it requires employees to work from a designated Carnival office in South Florida Tuesday through Thursday each week. Employees may work from their homes on Mondays and Fridays. Candidates must be in (or willing to relocate to) the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area.

At Carnival, your total rewards package is much more than your base salary. All non-sales roles participate in an annual cash bonus program, while sales roles have an incentive plan. Director and above roles may also be eligible to participate in Carnival’s discretionary equity incentive plan. Plus, Carnival provides comprehensive and innovative benefits to meet your needs, including:

• Health Benefits: 
  • Cost-effective medical, dental and vision plans
  • Employee Assistance Program and other mental health resources
  • Additional programs include company paid term life insurance and disability coverage
• Financial Benefits: 
  • 401(k) plan that includes a company match
  • Employee Stock Purchase plan
• Paid Time Off 
  • Holidays – All full-time and part-time with benefits employees receive days off for 7 company-wide holidays, plus an additional floating holiday to be taken at the employee’s discretion.
  • Vacation Time – All full-time employees at the manager and below level start with 14 days/year; director and above level start with 19 days/year.  Part-time with benefits employees receive time off based on the number of hours they work, with a minimum of 84 hours/year.  All employees gain additional vacation time with further tenure.
  • Sick Time – All full-time employees receive 80 hours of sick time each year.  Part-time with benefits employees receive time off based on the number of hours they work, with a minimum of 60 hours each year. 
• Other Benefits 
  • Complementary stand-by cruises, employee discounts on confirmed cruises, plus special rates for family and friends
  • Personal and professional learning and development resources including tuition reimbursement
  • On-site preschool program and wellness center at our Miami campus

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