Principal System Architect

🔥 12 hours ago

🌾 Nebraska – Remote

🌾 Nebraska – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

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LI-COR

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1971

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Food & Beverage • Healthcare • Logistics

LI-COR is a leader in environmental monitoring solutions, providing tools and technologies for greenhouse gas and emissions monitoring, agricultural best practices, and water resource management. With over 50 years of experience, LI-COR empowers researchers and organizations to make data-driven decisions essential for addressing global challenges such as food security, climate change, and environmental protection. Their products and services support environmental monitoring across seven continents, benefiting academia and industry alike.

📋 Description

• Define and maintain the target architecture, system boundaries, data models, integration patterns, and technical roadmap for connected products and cloud platforms • Lead architecture reviews for services, APIs, data pipelines, databases, identity, applications, deployment patterns, and device-to-cloud communication • Simplify the platform by identifying unnecessary coupling, duplicate processing, fragile patterns, and services that should be consolidated, redesigned, or retired • Guide platform modernization and the use of managed cloud services based on product needs, customer continuity, cost, portability, security, reliability, and operational burden • Maintain architecture decisions and documentation so LI-COR retains the knowledge, access, data portability, and technical control needed for future decisions • Guide how devices produce data and how cloud services receive, process, store, and present it, including schemas, batching, retries, deduplication, derived data, and retention • Partner with Firmware and Hardware Engineering to identify connectivity, scalability, reliability, support, and cost implications early in product development • Review new products and sensor integrations for downstream effects on cloud services, storage, analytics, applications, and cost-to-serve • Define end-to-end observability and nonfunctional requirements for availability, performance, security, privacy, scalability, recovery, and supportability • Partner with Engineering and IT and DevOps on CI/CD, infrastructure as code, release architecture, incident response, disaster recovery, vulnerability remediation, and operational readiness • Provide technical leadership during significant incidents and recurring performance or connectivity issues, driving root cause correction and durable improvement • Ensure platform designs support applicable validation, data separation, retention, privacy, auditability, and customer contractual requirements • Serve as a technical partner to the Software and Cloud leader and as an architecture authority across engineering, product, science, quality, and operations • Remain hands-on through backend design and implementation, prototypes, technical investigations, code reviews, and resolution of high risk production issues • Translate product intent into technically complete approaches and communicate tradeoffs, risks, costs, and recommendations to technical teams and business leaders • Mentor engineers and strengthen architecture capability across employees and partners • Act as LI-COR's technical counterpart with cloud, data, connectivity, and engineering partners • Other job related duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience • Typically 12 or more years of software and cloud engineering experience, including significant experience as a system, solution, platform, or principal architect for production systems • Demonstrated architecture ownership for a commercial IoT, connected device, industrial, scientific, telemetry, or other high volume data platform • Deep experience with AWS or a comparable public cloud, including compute, containers, networking, databases, storage, identity and access, observability, security, resiliency, and infrastructure as code • Strong backend engineering and API design skills, with hands-on proficiency in at least one modern backend language • Experience with event driven and distributed systems, device ingestion, message delivery, high volume time series data, data modeling, and data lifecycle management • Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, incident response, and secure software delivery at production scale • Ability to connect architecture decisions to delivery effort, operational cost, product economics, and customer impact • Strong communication, technical judgment, systems thinking, and the ability to lead through influence across teams and external partners • Effective oral and written communication skills in English • Master's degree is preferred • Preferred: architecture spanning embedded devices or firmware, cellular or gateway connectivity, cloud ingestion, web or mobile applications, and analytics • Preferred: regulated, validated, or quality controlled systems with requirements for data access, retention, privacy, auditability, and change control • Preferred: platform modernization, microservice simplification, globally distributed teams, or blended employee and contractor delivery models • Preferred: professional level cloud certification or equivalent practical expertise

🏖️ Benefits

• Periodic travel to LI-COR locations, partner sites, or team working sessions may be required

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