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Principal Mobile Solutions Architect

Job ID 8722 Location Miami Date posted 08/27/2024 Work Style Remote
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Company Overview

At Carnival Cruise Line, our mission is to create safe, fun, and memorable vacations at a great value. As a valued member of our team, you'll actively contribute to developing exceptional travel experiences and unforgettable moments, every single day. Your Carnival journey begins here!

Our Culture Essentials

Joining the Carnival team means embracing our six Culture Essentials, which are the cornerstone values shaping our identity, principles, and actions. These beliefs and behaviors not only define who we are but also unite us as a team, guiding us in decision-making, fostering relationships, tackling challenges, and reaching milestones. These culture essentials propel us toward a shared vision of success, ensuring a collective effort in shaping our future.

  • Speak Up
  • Respect & Protect
  • Empower
  • Improve
  • Listen & Learn
  • Communicate

Responsibilities

Job ID 8722 Location Miami, FL Date posted 08/27/2024

The Principal, Architect Mobile plays a pivotal role in ensuring the success of our digital products across both native iOS and Android platforms, along with hybrid technologies. In this capacity, your responsibilities extend to various critical aspects:

Technical Leadership: You will provide expert technical leadership for the development of software, guiding the team in making sound architectural and technological decisions to deliver high-quality mobile solutions.

Platform Expertise: Your expertise spans across both native iOS and Android platforms, as well as hybrid technologies, enabling you to make informed decisions that cater to the broad mobile landscape.

Solution Planning and Design: You are responsible for the entire lifecycle of technical solutions, from initial planning and design to the implementation phase. This includes setting the technical direction for the mobile development projects.

Mentorship and Skill Development: You will be a mentor and coach for your team, recognizing their individual strengths and weaknesses, and providing guidance and support to foster their professional growth. You encourage experimentation and innovation within the team.

Business Collaboration: Collaborating closely with the business, you will work with all scrum teams to strike a balance between delivering valuable business features, ensuring compliance with industry standards, and maintaining excellence in engineering practices.

Architectural Vision: You guide mobile technology decisions and are responsible for crafting future state architectures and roadmaps that align with and effectively support the overarching business strategy of CCL.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: This role involves close collaboration with various stakeholders, including the management team, other Architects, senior leadership in Digital Marketing and Guest Technology business units, and Global Infrastructure and Security organizations. This collaboration ensures that mobile solutions align with the organization's goals and security standards.

As the Principal Engineer, Mobile, you are at the forefront of mobile technology innovation, ensuring the alignment of technical solutions with business objectives and promoting a culture of excellence within your team.

Essential Functions:

  • Code – Lead by example and write high quality code and provide technical example and guidance to the rest of the scrum team. The primary contribution to the team is through code.
  • Design – Synthesize Architectural solutions by leveraging accepted architectural patterns and practices to drive the creation of software designs. Create project level technical designs using the appropriate software stack, patterns, technologies and libraries.
  • Collaborate and Clarify – Partner with the business, Business Analysts, Product Owners, and other stakeholders on decisions regarding prioritization, execution, work allocation, sprint planning, goal setting. Help to clarify the technical concerns of stakeholders including the business and the development team.
  • Lead - Serve as a team leader with responsibilities that include coaching and mentoring developers. Develop a rapport with the developers and understand the strengths and weaknesses of each team member.
  • Context - Have a comprehensive technical view of the applications owned by the team and how they fit into the broader context of the software system. Use this perspective to provide technical direction in terms of frameworks, practices, and code quality.
  • Technical Growth - Keep current on new technologies as they pertain to their product. Stay on top of emerging technology trends and best practices. Evaluate and prototype potential technologies and overall solutions.
  • Onboarding and Team Growth – Helps develop and maintain onboarding processes and assists in onboarding new hires.
  • Ownership of Quality Outcome – Have a strong sense of software craftsmanship. Own the applications, work to ensure quality through use of tooling such as security analyzers, static code analysis, unit test threshold monitoring and others. Review code changes made by developers and provide feedback based on best practices.
  • Compliance - Understand and comply with established corporate and IT technical standards and methodologies. These include compliance as it pertains to security, privacy, data and our ESGs. Use and contribute to company standards and tools.
  • Problem Solving - Demonstrate exceptional analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills. Come up to speed quickly in complex domains and effectively manage multiple concurrent activities.

Required for all Jobs:

  • Performs other duties as assigned.
  • Complies with all policies and standards.

Qualifications:

  • Education:  bachelor’s degree in computer science, architecture, Engineering, Information Technology required.  Master’s degree preferred.

Work Experience:

  • 7+ years as Mobile Solutions Architect or commensurate amount of Architecture/Engineering experience required
  • 8+ years Generally 8-10+ years of software development experience required.
  • Minimum 3 years of experience leading cross functional teams, with ability to mentor existing resources technically required.
  • 8+ years in a technical development capacity as individual contributor preferred.
  • 2+ years leading a team of software engineers preferred.
  • 3 years designing and delivering mobile applications for high traffic enterprise applications preferred.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

  • Strong .NET .NET Core and C#
  • ASP.Net and ASP.Net MVC (either .NET or .NET Core)
  • Expertise in iOS, Android, HTML5, CSS3, and other mobile frameworks/accelerators.
  • Experience with mobile analytics and 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
  • Experienced in designing and developing mobile SDK and integrating mobile apps with web-services and external APIs
  • Strong understanding of mobile security protocols, analytics and social channel integration
  • Experience with one or more Mobile Development products or frameworks targeting multiple operating systems
  • Working familiarity with design patterns
  • Strong understanding of Object Orientated Programming
  • Understanding of IOC/DI and experience with multiple frameworks is a plus
  • Expert level experience with an Inversion Control/Dependency Injection. Strong experience with designing DB
  • Solid knowledge of high availability architectures and disaster recovery architectures and processes.
  • SQL/ORMs
  • Packaging frameworks such as NPM, Yarn
  • Experience with front-end framework/library such as Angular, Vue, React
  • Container technologies, Docker and Kubernetes
  • Async programming
  • Sitecore or other CMS
  • JAMStack
  • Strong strategic capabilities with enterprise level foresight and mature judgment
  • Solid IT implementation and solutions delivery experience
  • Ability to drive innovation in a practical, actionable way
  • Knowledge of design patterns, such as Model View Presenter (MVP) pattern
  • Knowledge of debugging techniques
  • Ability to listen to team members and communicate instructions effectively
  • Strong interpersonal, facilitation and consensus building skills.
  • A strong sense of code quality and craftsmanship
    • 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, wellness center, and health clinic at our Miami campus

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

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

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

The range for this role’s salary $100,000-$150,000.  Offers to the selected candidates will be made on a fair and equitable basis, taking into account specific job-related skills and experience. 

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 

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About Us

At Carnival Cruise Line, our mission is to consistently deliver safe, fun, and memorable vacations at a great value. As the world’s most popular cruise line, we offer a variety of unique experiences across our fleet, ensuring that every voyage is filled with excitement and discovery. From world-class entertainment and gourmet dining to exploring stunning destinations, we create lasting memories for our guests while maintaining a dedication to the places we visit and the lives we touch.

Join us and embark on a career that offers not only the chance to grow professionally but also the opportunity to be part of a global community that makes a difference.

In addition to other duties/functions, this position requires full commitment and support for promoting ethical and compliant culture. More specifically, this position requires integrity, honesty, and respectful treatment of others, as well as a willingness to speak up when they see misconduct or have concerns.

Carnival Corporation & plc and Carnival Cruise Line is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer. In this regard, it does not discriminate against any qualified individual on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, mental, physical or sensory disability, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, federal, and/or international law.

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Employee Benefits

  • Hybrid Work Environment

    Empowering work-life integration and flexible opportunities for your personal and career success

  • Wellness Programs

    Comprehensive employer wellness programs featuring mental health support and fitness options, including an on-site gym

  • Cruise Benefits

    An array of qualified complimentary and heavily discounted cruise options for the ultimate dream getaway

  • Parental Programs

    Generous parental leave time and adoption assistance programs

  • Retirement Plan

    Secure your future with our exceptional Traditional and Roth 401(k) options complemented by valuable company contributions

  • Employee Stock Purchase

    Invest in tomorrow with the opportunity to purchase Carnival shares at a discounted rate from their fair market value

In addition to the above, we offer PTO and company holidays as well as a variety of medical, dental, and voluntary plans

Culture

In our virtual contact center, we're all about unlimited growth opportunities and creating a supportive, inclusive environment. We believe in fostering professional development and providing our team members with the tools and resources they need to excel in their roles. Our community values diversity, ensuring that everyone feels respected and supported in a welcoming atmosphere where personal and professional growth knows no limits. Above all, we're committed to delivering an exceptional guest experience, making customer satisfaction a top priority in everything we do.

I love the variety in my work at Carnival. Each day brings new challenges that require creative thinking. Collaborating with different team members on projects keeps things fresh and interesting, making every day unique and exciting. Moreover, being part of Carnival means being part of a culture that values initiative and fosters continuous improvement. This sense of empowerment fuels my passion for what I do and inspires me to strive for excellence every day.

Miguel Fleet Technical Document Center Manager Summit Seeker

Carnival is a great place to learn and grow.

Tyrone Lost Mail Clerk Chess Master

Carnival’s culture is fun, welcoming, vibrant, flexible, fast-paced, diverse, and innovative. Carnival welcomes guests from all over the world to sail on our ships. Our crew members are caring and make the guest experience awesome. The fun continues to connect shoreside where I have an opportunity to interact with employees from all levels of the organization to assist them with their HR questions. From the guest to shoreside experience, we embrace the FUN!

Annelys HR Services and Shoreside Immigration Supervisor Fitness Guru

Carnival has been instrumental in my personal growth by providing opportunities to step out of my comfort zone and develop essential skills like flexibility and teamwork. Professionally, their commitment to continuous learning and career development has empowered me to take on new challenges and advance in my field.

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