IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 6000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.
At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.
We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.
By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.
We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.
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The Senior Principal Architect (“SPA”) will own the overall architecture accountability for one or more portfolios within IFS Technology. The role of the SPA is to build and develop the technology strategy, while growing, leading, and energising multi-faceted technical teams to design and deliver technical solutions that deliver IFS technology needs and are supported by excellent data, methodology, systems and processes. The role will work with a broad set of stakeholders including product managers, engineers, and various R&D and business leaders. The occupant of this role diagnoses and solves significant, complex and non-routine problems; translates practices from other markets, countries and industries; provides authoritative, technical recommendations which have a significant impact on business performance in short and medium term; and contributes to company standards and procedures, including the IFS Technical Reference Architecture. This role actively identifies new approaches that enhance and simplify where possible complexities in the IFS suite. The SPA represents IFS as the authority in one or technology areas or portfolios and acts as a role model to develop experts within this area.
What is the role?
What do we need from you?
It’s your excellent influencing and communication skills that will really make the difference. Entrepreneurship and resilience will be required, to help drive and shape the technology strategy. You will need technical, operational, and commercial breadth to deliver a strategic technical vision alongside a robust, secure and cost-effective delivery platform and operational model.
We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community.