Principal Architect

Panasonic Avionics Corporation; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 268,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Panasonic Avionics as a Principal Software Architect in Irvine, CA, where you will lead the development of innovative inflight entertainment systems. This role offers stability and growth within a prestigious company known for its commitment to diversity and excellence. You'll work alongside industry experts and have the chance to shape the future of in-flight technology while enjoying competitive compensation and extensive benefits.

Benefits

Unlimited PTO for exempt employees

14 vacation days plus 7 sick days plus 3 personal days for hourly employees

401K with 50% match

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in architecture and development.
• Expert knowledge in embedded systems and architecture design.
• Experience leading teams, driving technology direction.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture definition for next generation platform.
• Mentor a team of skilled architects.
• Ensure designs align with business strategy and operational best practices.

Skills

Architecture and Design

Embedded Systems

Linux Systems

Cloud Platforms

Agile Development

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Sciences or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Azure

Job description

Overview

Our new global headquarters is conveniently located in Irvine, CA near John Wayne Airport in the Park Place development. For our onsite and hybrid employees you will be able to enjoy amenities such as access to many restaurants and shops, running trails, a fitness deck, outdoor seating, dry cleaning, car wash, free garage parking, car charging stations, shuttle service for train commuters, outdoor games like bocce, horseshoes, gaming tables, pickle ball, and basketball. For more information on Park Place visitwww.parkplaceirvine.com

Who We Are:

Ever wonder who brings the entertainment to your flights? Panasonic Avionics Corporation is #1 in the industry for delivering inflight products such as movies, games, WiFi, and now Bluetooth headphone connectivity!

How exciting would it be to be a part of the innovation that goes into creating technology that delights millions of people in an industry that’s here to stay! With our company’s history spanning over 40 years, you will have stability, career growth opportunities, and will work with the brightest minds in the industry. And we are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture that will help our organization thrive! We seek diversity in many areas such as background, culture, gender, ways of thinking, skills and more.

If you want to learn more about us visit us atwww.panasonic.aero
And for a full listing of open job opportunities go towww.panasonic.aero/join-us/

The Avionics Way:

The Avionics Way captures the essence of what makes our employees special, and by extension, our organization. It’s comprised of 5 core identifiers - Pioneers, Problem Solvers, Accountable, Collaborative, and Customer Focused - that together form a robust, working framework for our continued success. Beyond a philosophy, the Avionics Way is our guide to daily practices. It provides a clear, actionable model to help employees, at all levels, realize their ambitions through outsized contributions to their teams and the company. This model clearly defines expectations for performance at all levels of the organization, as well as establishes specific actions and modes of working that reinforce our philosophy on the path to achieving our goals.

Responsibilities

As a Principal Software Architect you will be responsible for leading architecture definition of our next generation platform that would enable Inflight entertainment and digital products to deliver engaging and personalized customers outcomes. As a principal architect you will be mentor and lead a team of highly skilled architects to deliver cutting edge next generation digital platform architectures. You will serve as a technical leader to drive technology direction for the next generation platform working closely with product and engineering leaders. Your responsibility is to define deliver over platform systems design and architecture, drive new technology evaluations, define technology roadmaps based on company / business strategy and implementation of architecture best practices and governance processes. As a technical leader act like a visionary leader, architect, builder and operator, you may also manage and mentor team software architects and engineers to deliver architecture outcomes.

What you will be doing:

Architecture and Design

• Develop and document end-to-end software – system architectures and strategies for IFEC products and features.
• Define and develop architecture that functionally decomposes complex business and technical problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
• Define, document and communicate clear functional and Non-Functional requirements for the architectures including key integrations, dependencies, and risks.
• Define reusable patterns and frameworks that reduce cost, complexity and overall maintenance of proposed solutions.
• Review existing system architectures and identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and improve performance, stability and reliability of existing systems.
• Ensure Architecture definitions align with DevOps principles including operational flows and models that meet business and customer outcomes.
• Serve as an expert inperformance, scalability, enterprise system architectures, and engineering best practices.
• Ensure platform and product delivery meets the architectural and functional tenants including.
• Demonstrate strong balance between technical leadership and business judgement to make right decisions and technology choices.

• Communicate the software architecture throughout the organization via presentations and architecture documents/diagrams.

• Interface with product teams on review of new features / products and provide guidance on the implications / work scope / feasibility of them.

• You will exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.

• Collaborate with development / test / integration / support teams on refinement/implementation/verification/deployment of the chosen architecture.

• Participate in detailed design, test plan and go-to-market reviews to ensure alignment with the chosen architecture and NFRs are met.

• Evaluate upcoming technologies, stay current with industry best practices and adapt them into the system architecture as needed to enable the platform and product roadmaps.

• Create and drive prototypes, proof-of-concepts and demonstrations to evaluate new architecture / technologies on the systems.

• Provide technical leadership to junior software engineers in the areas of software design, implementation and test.

The salary range of $160,000 - $268,000 is just one component of Panasonic’s total package. The final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to individual’s knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this role may be eligible for discretionary bonuses and incentives.

Base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and location.

Qualifications

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Sciences, Computer Engineering or other related engineering degree, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience related architecture, design and development in Linux / android systems
• 10+ years of experience with embedded systems architecture, design and development in Aviation, Automotive, or similar industry
• Experience defining complex platform based architectures and ecosystems.
• Experience and Expert knowledge of systems design, architecture and implementing large scale, complex, transactional and business systems.
• Experience driving systems design, architecture and implementing hosting platform architecture using cloud native virtualization technologies.
• Experience with enterprise server technologies such as software define compute, storage and networking.
• Experience in implementing cloud native architectures using industry standard hosting, orchestration, DevOps and GitOps models such as Kubernetes, Consul, Docker, ArgoCD or Flux.
• Experience with leveraging DevOps as an architectural and design construct for design / development of products and applications.
• Expert understanding of different architectural patterns (such as serverless, service based, event based, micro services, distributed systems including pros/cons of each and when to apply them.
• Experience with architecture / design / development of complex Linux / Android embedded and distributed systems.
• Experience with architecture / design / development of complex systems leveraging cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google.
• Experience with architecture / design / development of remote software and content distribution over the air (OTA) and monitoring.
• Experience with architecture / design / development of complex distributed web and mobile products using open source and cloud technologies such as application servers, web servers, API Management, databases, CDNs, Caching, service mesh, containers, and orchestration platforms.
• Experience with complex database models using Relational and Non-Relational database systems.
• Experience and good understanding of networking protocols, security protocols, high availability strategies, and analytics.
• Experience with end – end life cycle of complex distributed systems from requirements to production and operations.
• Experience documenting architectures and familiar with related diagraming models (such as C4 model, UML, sequence diagrams).
• Exceptional verbal, written and interpersonal / collaboration skills.
• Experience in Agile development process such as Scrum or SAFe.
• Experience with AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Computing.
• Experience with GoLang is a plus.

What we offer:

At Panasonic Avionics Corporation we realize the most important aspects in leading our industry are the bright minds behind everything we do. We are proud to offer our employees a highly competitive, comprehensive and flexible benefits program.

• Paid time off: Exempt Salaried employees receive unlimited PTO. This means that there is no fixed number, range, or limit to the amount of Personal and Vacation Days that may be taken for exempt employees. Non-exempt hourly employees accrue 14 vacation days per year + 7 sick days + 3 personal days. Accrual rate increases with tenure. All employees receive 11 company paid holidays per year plus a paid company-wide shut down in the U.S. between Christmas and New Year.
• Insurance: Medical insurance offerings from Aetna and Kaiser (CA &HI). Options for Employee Only, Employee + Spouse/Domestic Partner, Employee + Children, or Family. Dental PPO and DMO options & Vision insurance through EyeMed or VSP.
• 401K with 50% match on up to 8% contribution, full vested from day 1.
• Other offerings include: Wellness Program, Counseling services, FSA & HSA, Life Insurance for employee, spouse and child, AD&D Insurance, Long-term and Short-term disability, Critical Illness Insurance, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance, Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Dependent Care FLSA, Education Assistance, Commuter Program, Employee Purchase Program, Service Award Program.

Panasonic is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by law or company policy. All qualified individuals are required to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. Pre-employment drug testing is required for safety sensitive positions or as may otherwise be required by contract or law. Due to the high volume of responses, we will only be able to respond to candidates of interest. All candidates must have valid authorization to work in the U.S. Thank you for your interest in Panasonic Avionics Corporation.

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