Senior Architect – Resource Sharing

Role Overview

• Own the architectural integrity of assigned systems, ensuring solutions are cohesive, scalable, and aligned with long-term product and platform direction
• Translate product strategy into executable technical architecture, guiding teams from concept through delivery
• Act as the senior technical advisor to engineering and product leadership on complex system design, integrations, and modernization initiatives
• Drive architectural clarity through lightweight decision records, diagrams, and standards that accelerate delivery rather than slow it
• Identify systemic risks, technical debt, and cross-team dependencies early, and help teams resolve them pragmatically
• Champion secure-by-design, observable, resilient, and operable architectures suitable for globally deployed SaaS products
• Foster alignment across teams by promoting shared patterns, reusable services, and consistent engineering practices
• Mentor engineers and technical leads, strengthening architectural thinking across the organization
• Provide leadership to organization in specific area of expertise
• Assumes the technical lead and is the architect for major OCLC systems or concepts
• Insures that information and trends within their area of expertise are effectively communicated to relevant business units within OCLC
• Prototyping systems in anticipation of new requirements
• Develops functional requirements from prototype systems
• Analyze and solve problems in existing systems
• Design, code and test multiple modules of a system in a timely manner
• Uses industry standard programming techniques to translate requirements and designs into code
• Evaluates and recommends major changes to development practices and continually seeks improvements to development procedures in such areas as
• New languages and operating systems, Relevant ISO and NISO standards within OCLC projects, Improvements to system performance and design, and Interpretation of all OCLC ISO-9000 procedures and the SDLC, as they pertain to their work unit
• Insures that project teams plan and participate in load, capacity, and performance analysis and/or testing
• Represents OCLC’s position by participating on or leading relevant standards committees such as ISO, NISO, ACM, and IEEE
• Leads the implementation of standards within OCLC systems
• Identifies new opportunities with 3rd party solutions and technique for OCLC applications with the ability to understand the impact and analyze the risk
• Participates in major architectural reviews and plans
• Other tasks as assigned

Requirements

• Master’s degree required plus 8 to 12 years experience at a high technical level of knowledge and experience
• Equivalent experience without a Master’s degree is 10 to 14 years experience at a high technical level of knowledge and experience
• Candidate must be sponsored by an OCLC Vice President
• Demonstrated a proven ability to provide corporate wide leadership in their area of expertise
• Possesses specific industry expertise in one area such as user Interfaces, telecom, performance, or a single large OCLC system
• Ability to implement industry standard programming techniques by Mastering advanced fundamental software development concepts, practices, and procedures, and Having the ability to analyze and solve problems in existing systems

Tech Stack

• SDLC

Benefits

• Free use of our on-site fitness center, gym sports, group exercise classes, and game room
• Onsite catering and cafeteria subsidized by OCLC
• Health and wellness events
• Paid parental leave and adoption assistance
• Tuition reimbursement and Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility
• Company-subsidized pricing on local tickets and memberships