Domain Architect

As a Domain Architect, you will oversee the technical direction and strategy within a specific domain, driving innovation and guiding teams to build and maintain scalable, high-quality solutions. You will collaborate with engineering teams, product management, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment with organizational goals, while fostering a culture of mentorship and continuous improvement.

You will:

• Model Boomi’s Values: Exemplify Boomi’s core values in your role as a technical leader, serving as a role model for engineers across the organization.

• Drive Technical Presence: Enhance Boomi’s internal and external technical reputation through mentoring, knowledge transfer sessions, hackathons, patent applications, and community engagement such as meetups, conferences, presentations, and technical blogs.

• Guide Technical Strategy: Partner with the Architecture First Team to monitor trends, incubate proofs-of-concept, and present strategic initiative proposals to Boomi executives.

• Act as a Technical Liaison: Serve as the primary point of contact for technical relationships within the domain, communicating new capabilities, identifying gaps, and ensuring alignment across the organization.

• Pipeline Management: Ensure a consistent intake pipeline by facilitating initiative-level breakdowns, estimation, planning, and proofs-of-concept for domain projects.

• Design Oversight: Collaborate with teams to identify and incorporate security, scalability, compliance, and other non-functional requirements during the design phase.

• Hands-on Engagement: Dedicate up to 50% of your time to directly assist teams, particularly with challenging initiatives to drive them to completion.

• Discovery and Research: Lead research and discovery efforts to align with domain initiatives and explore innovative solutions.

• Establish Ownership: Manage larger domain-level initiatives, curating them from ideation to actionable paths forward, including potential new element ownership.

• Curate Technical Backlogs: Break down complex initiatives into element-level backlogs and establish pathways for execution.

• Champion Emerging Technologies: Identify and promote new technological trends, develop business cases for adoption, and maintain Boomi’s leadership in platform innovation.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with product leaders, customers, and other stakeholders to understand business requirements and refine domain solutions.

• Support Elements: Provide technical guidance to Element teams, assisting with complex challenges that extend beyond their scope or competencies.

• Domain Prioritization: Work closely with the domain’s director to address prioritization needs and manage the domain’s strategic objectives.

• Evangelize Domain Capabilities: Advocate for domain capabilities across other domains and the broader organization to promote cohesive development and innovation.

Primary Relationships

• Reports to: Domain Director

• Collaborates with: Chief Architect, Element Teams, Domain Product and UX, Architecture First Team, Extended Architecture Guild, and other domain architects.

• Engagements: Participates in domain 3iab with the director, PM lead, and UX representative; engages in reviews and check-ins with Element leads.

Expectations and Expertise

• Comprehensive Domain Knowledge: Maintain deep understanding of domain-specific product initiatives, technical debt, and overall architecture.

• Architectural Strategy Development: Drive and develop the domain’s architecture strategy and contribute to platform-wide architectural discussions.

• Mentorship: Guide and develop technical and deputy domain architects, fostering growth and expertise within the team.

• Cultural Leadership: Promote positive engineering culture and inspire technical excellence.

• Organizational Visibility: Maintain a strong presence within the domain and contribute to organizational-wide technical initiatives.

• Hands-on Contribution: Participate in hands-on work with teams as needed, up to 50% of time, to address specific challenges and lead by example.

Essential Requirements

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to earn trust of the team and lead by example

• Ability to learn new tools, languages, and operating systems with some training and on-the-job experience

• Experience in software development, including the use of some IDE with a solid understanding of object-oriented design concepts for delivering and maintaining a software product

• Experience with agile collaboration tools, such as JIRA and Confluence

• Expert level experience with Java, Python, source control systems, continuous integration tools

• Expert level experience using AWS technologies such as Cloudformation, AWS CLI, API Gateway, Lambda, S3, ECS, EKS, and EC2

• Expert level experience with Web Services technologies including REST, GraphQL, SOAP, and WSDL

• Expert level experience with highly scalable, high throughput web applications, API services and backend systems

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IAC) development, such as Ansible, Terraform

• Proven ability to lead and influence across engineering and product teams.

• Expertise in developing architecture strategies and aligning them with business goals.

• Strong mentoring and leadership skills.

• Experience with cloud platforms, distributed systems, and scalable architectures.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Desirable Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering or architecture roles in product companies.

• 3+ years of technical leadership experience helping teams build enterprise-grade applications/solutions.

• Strong experience in Java and SpringBoot for building microservices 

• Experience with SQL, relational databases, NoSql and ORM tools like Hibernate

• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, New Relic.

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and collaboration tools.

• Experience using Linux/Unix environments

• Certifications such as AWS Developer or AWS Certified Solution Architect are a plus.

Take the first step toward advancing your career with Boomi and make an impact that resonates throughout the organization.