Company Description
IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.
At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.
We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.
By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.
We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.
If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.
Job Description
The Principal/Senior Principal Architect (“SPA”) within Cloud Infrastructure will own the overall architecture accountability for one or more specialist areas within the portfolio of the team. The role of the SPA is to design and communicate complex pipelines and associated capabilities to deliver a whole range of IFS capability to our customers as SaaS.
The SPA will work with a broad set of stakeholders including product managers, engineering leaders, program managers and dev ops engineers.
The occupant of this role diagnoses and solves significant, complex and non-routine problems; translates practices from other markets, countries and industries; provides authoritative, technical recommendations which have a significant impact on business performance in short and medium term; and contributes to company standards and procedures, including the IFS Technical Reference Architecture.
This role actively identifies new approaches that enhance and simplify where possible complexities in the IFS suite. The SPA represents IFS as the authority in one or more technology areas or portfolios and acts as a role model to develop experts within this area.

• Provide technical leadership for design and development of software and in particular automated deployment pipelines to meet functional & nonfunctional requirements
• Adopt a hands-on approach to design and implement the architecture runway for teams
• Set the technical agenda working closely with the Engineering and Product Management leadership
• Ensure maintainability, security and performance in any and all components by applying well-established engineering/architectural principles
• Ensure software quality complying with shift left quality principles
• Conduct peer reviews & provide feedback ensuring quality standards
• Engage with requirement owners and liaise with other stakeholders
• Contribute to improvements in IFS products & services
• Provide multi-horizon technology thinking to broad portfolios and platforms in line with desired business needs.
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