Principal Mobile Solutions Architect

Job Description

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 Oriented 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.

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 is $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

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 Cruise Line is the most popular cruise brand in North America and operates a fleet of ships designed to foster exceptionally safe, fun and memorable vacation experiences at an outstanding value. Our employees have a responsibility to be accountable for all actions. We consider the environment in all aspects of our business and have a responsibility to put safety and sustainability first. We live and share a positive attitude which is based on fostering an environment of inclusion, trust, a willingness to listen, openness and integrity. Doing this helps us to achieve our ultimate goal, which is to include FUN in everything we do! Speaking of fun, we are officially certified as a Great Place to Work aboard our ships as well as in our global corporate headquarters!

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.