Principal Systems Architect

Job Posted 23 Days Ago Posted 23 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in US
Remote
188K-235K Annually
Expert/Leader
Logistics • Software • Transportation
Truckstop is a leader in transportation technology and freight matching solutions.
The Role
The Principal Systems Architect leads system design and architectural oversight, ensuring optimal performance, resilience, and collaboration across various technical disciplines while mentoring teams and driving improvements.
Summary Generated by Built In

At Truckstop, we have transformed the entire freight-moving lifecycle with our SaaS solutions.  From freight matching to payments and everything in between, we are the trusted partner for carriers, brokers, and shippers alike. We lead this industry forward with our One Team mindset committing to principles such as assume positive intent, have each other’s back, and be your authentic self.  Our drive for greatness produces high expectations, yet our regard for humans is even higher. Join a team of brilliant minds and generous hearts who care deeply about other's success.   

Position Summary:

The Principal Systems Architect provides architectural oversight, design, planning and development across Truckstop’s technology infrastructure, platforms, and systems.   They are responsible to ensure Truckstop’s systems architecture is optimized to deliver efficient and cost affective service to the business while ensuring systems are performant, work well together, and synergize where appropriate.  They work closely with Truckstop Architecture teams across Devops, software engineering, data, and security to provide highly available and performant platforms to Truckstop Partners and its Customers.

Essential Job Functions:

  • Provides technical leadership in strategy, roadmap, design, development, and implementation of technology solutions, including the assessment and optimization of system design and review of requirements.
  • Build and maintain Disaster Recovery planning for Truckstop. This includes building frameworks for common DR tasks, leading DR practice exercises, and being prepared to lead DR if needed.
  • Provides direction to determine technical and operational feasibility of solutions that are integrated with the existing or defined IT architecture and services standards, to meet defined technical requirements.
  • Develops prototypes of the system design and works with DevOps, Data Engineering, Software engineering, network, database, IT operations, technical support, Product, and other IT areas as appropriate throughout development and implementation processes to improve system resilience and reliability.
  • Mentors’ architects and senior engineers and advises senior management.
  • Provides IT Solution Engineering technical leadership to ensure that design, development, and testing activities conform to the strategic and tactical direction for individual initiatives.
  • Provides technical supervision on complex programs.
  • Responsible for providing senior level expertise on decisions and priorities regarding the enterprise's overall systems architecture    
  • Provides technical guidance to project and operational teams as appropriate
  • May lead complex projects or tasks that require coordination across various IT and business disciplines
  • Deep level understanding of system integration and infrastructure processes and procedures
  • Expected to develop, propose, implement, and promote continuous improvement
  • Review architecture for TSG applications, and ensure it is meeting standards, and is a good fit.
  • Assess and apply modern technology and automation to improve performance and efficiency in the environment. 
  • Ensure Security standards are adhered to and part of architecture and design. 
  • Ensure alignment between business strategies, information technology roadmap, and technical and tactical deployment teams
  • Build system and application architectures to achieve defined business needs.
  • Demonstrated technology skills across multiple technology domains (application, security, infrastructure, information, integration, )
  • Strong consultative skills at a cross-functional level
  • Strong understanding of technology, platforms, processes and frameworks (e.g., Integration, Cloud , Data, Zero-Trust Multi-Cloud Networking and DevOps)
  • Demonstrated leadership on large scale projects impacting strategic priorities
  • Monitor and analyze industry, technology, and market trends to determine their potential impact or application for the organization.
  • Other duties as assigned. 

Position Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent work experience.
  • 10+ years of experience in IT Operations.
  • 4 years of Cloud Architecture Experience
  • 5+ years AWS\Azure experience 
  • Experience communicating across cross-functional teams and senior leadership
  • Build system and application architectures to achieve defined business needs.
  • Ability to think critically and solve problems while confronted with ambiguity
  • Demonstrated technology skills across multiple technology domains (application, security, infrastructure, information, integration)
  • Strong consultative skills at a cross-functional level
  • Strong understanding of technology, platforms, processes and frameworks (e.g., Integration, Cloud, Data, Network and DevOps)
  • Demonstrated leadership on large scale projects impacting strategic priorities

At Truckstop we are dedicated to creating a workplace that is equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for a yearly bonus. Final salary is based on a number of factors including market location, job-related knowledge, education/training, certifications, key skills, experience, internal peer equity as well as business considerations.

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$188,000$235,000 USD

The above description covers the most significant duties performed but does not include other related occasional work that may be assigned or is completed by the employee. 

Truckstop provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. 
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The Company
HQ: Boise, ID
900 Employees
Remote Workplace
Year Founded: 1995

What We Do

At Truckstop, our One-Team mindset has transformed big dreams into epic success. We commit to principles such as assume positive intent, have each other’s back, and be your authentic self. This results in a feeling of connectedness, so no one feels isolated in a remote work world. Together, we build technology that determines the future of freight.

Partners make the impact.
We call our employees partners because we are interdependent upon each other to achieve greatness. From day one, we empower our partners with the freedom to innovate, take smart risks, and voice bold ideas. This autonomy allows our partners to think big and make an impact.

Imagine greatness and own it.
Imagine a place where you are equipped to drive your career – where exploration is encouraged, and opportunities present themselves to the curious. This is Truckstop.com. Our TLC (Truckstop Learning Center) and AI Talent Marketplace are examples of tools that help our partners develop new and critical skills. We are committed to empowering our partners to own their greatness.

Flexibility to help you balance.
We encourage our partners to embrace the richness of North America like the trucker who drives its highways. Whether seaside, countryside, or citified, wherever our partners draw inspiration from is where we want them to be. If it’s in an office or working from home, we set them up with the resources they need to excel.

The best of two worlds.
After 25 years of steady growth and profitability, Truckstop.com caught the eye of tech investor ICONIQ Capital. They saw how our breakthrough SaaS solutions impact an $800 billion industry. Our partners enjoy the stability of historical success yet are primed for exponential growth.

Why Work With Us

We are creating a culture of brilliant minds and generous hearts who care deeply about other's success. Our drive for greatness produces high expectations, yet our regard for humans is even higher.

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