Fractal Analytics
AI
HeadofPlatformEngineering/PrincipalArchitect
“Head of Platform Engineering / Principal Architect at Fractal Analytics. Skills: Platform Architecture, Cloud Reliability, Enterprise Integrations, AI Productionization. Own end-to-end architecture. Define platform blueprint”
What You'll Achieve.
achieve 99.9%+ SLOs; reduce rework; reduce second-guessing; reduce post-bind quality issues; accelerate sales and implementation; measurable reliability and quality
Industry & Context.
exception handling; graceful degradation; backpressure; circuit breakers
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
backend/platform engineering, leading platform or core backend teams for B2B/SaaS products, cloud-native, multi-tenant platforms, 99.9% + SLOs, multi-region deployments, DR drills, incident management, Kubernetes, IaC (Terraform/Helm), API gateways, queues/streams, low-latency API design, caching, throughput optimization, enterprise integrations, Guidewire/Duck Creek, SSO (OAuth2/OIDC/SAML), thirdparty data sources, security & compliance, encryption at rest/in transit, secrets mgmt, key rotation, SOC 2 readiness, GDPR-aligned data privacy, audit trails, agentic/LLM or ML-powered features in production, customer-facing communicator, pre sales, RFPs, conference presentations, building high-performing teams and cultures, quality with speed, paved roads, CI/CD, trunk-based dev, code review standards
Nice to Have
Guidewire/Duck Creek accelerators or integration frameworks, BPM/workflow engines (Temporal/Cadence, Camunda), FinOps practice leadership, usage billing metering, ROI dashboards, admin/observability portals, conference talks, publications, community contributions
What You'll Do.
Own end-to-end architecture
Define platform blueprint
Set reliability and security bars
Build observability & FinOps
Champion demo/sandbox environments
Represent engineering in pre-sales
Architect platform's multi-tenant design
Lead cloud deployment
Own integration layer
Establish security & compliance
Partner with Data Science
Stand up demo & sandbox environments
Lead presales conversations
Define coding standards
Define operational excellence
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with Data Science; Work with product team; Collaborate with Data Science
Communication Scope
customer-facing communicator; confident with CIO/CTO/CISO stakeholders; pre sales; RFPs; conference presentations
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