PENNYMAC
At Pennymac, our people are the foundation of our success and at the heart of our dynamic work culture. Together, we work towards a unified goal of helping millions of Americans achieve aspirations of homeownership through the complete mortgage journey.
JOB OVERVIEW
Responsible for providing strategic guidance, designs, and solution patterns to team members, is the "chief architect" for a subproduct/s. Serves as a driver and collaborator throughout development life cycle, partnering with business analysts and customers to review and optimize requirements; and, working with developers to review and validate key functionality and integration. Responsible for ensuring feasibility of design and integration with existing systems/platforms.
RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for the architectural design and initial development and/or major revision of business software solutions
• Identifies and solves systemic architectural problems at the product or multiple subproducts / teams / technical area levels
• Takes a high-level short to mid-term plan at a product level and translate it into a strategic and tactical technology roadmaps
• Sets standards for best in class of code, documentation, testing, monitoring skills and practices
• Define product requirements and create high-level architectural specifications, ensuring feasibility, functionality and integration with existing systems and platforms
• Significant strategic impact over one of the product teams and deal with very deep technical problems
• Solve variety of very open-ended and complex (even to the PM, TLs and Sr. TLs who presented them) problems
• Provide technical guidance across several scrum teams
• Ownership for the deep knowledge of major parts of the technology stack
• Serve as a vital driver and collaborator throughout development life cycle, partnering with business analysts and customers to present, review, optimize requirements; and, working with developers to review and validate key functionality and integration
• Collaborate across teams and build systems to address architectural gaps
• Complete special assignments necessary to support business strategy
• Performs other related duties as required and assigned
• Demonstrates behaviors which are aligned with the organization's desired culture and values

QUALIFICATIONS

• Degree in computer science, engineering or similar major
• Experience as a Software Architect or similar role
• 7 years of experience with software development
• Ability to improve the definition of best practices and architecture with deep domain knowledge at the product or multiple team technical area levels
• Demonstrated track record of anticipating technical problems that will fall out of major subproducts/products and designing solutions to overcome them.
• Demonstrated track record of creating significant improvements across business-critical product ecosystems around stability, security, performance, and scalability
• Ability to gain and retain deep knowledge in major parts of the technology stack, act as the technical owner of large parts of product of multiple subproducts code base
• Demonstrated ability to effectively convey complex technical topics in ways that that could be easily understood by engineers, POs, PMs or nontechnical colleagues
• Demonstrated ability to understand, facilitate or actively participate in multi team or multi subproduct scrum activities and rituals, help others to understand them Able to collaborate across teams and build systems to address architectural gaps
• Capable of leading small to mid-size epic level efforts
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Proven track record at delivering timely and accurate information in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent critical thinking, problem solving, mathematical skills and sound judgment
• Financial Services and, if possible, mortgage industry experience preferred
• Strong business acumen and ability to interface with executive management

WAGE & BENEFITS
The Job Pay Range for this role considers the wide range of factors in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill set; experience and training; licensure and certification; geographic location; and other business and organizational needs. Some roles may be eligible for performance-based compensation and/or stock-based incentives awarded to employees based on company and individual performance.
Benefits That Bring It Home - Whether you're looking for flexible benefits for today, setting up short-term goals for tomorrow, or planning for long-term success and retirement, Pennymac's benefits have you covered.

• Medical, Dental, and Vision - Pennymac works hard to keep premiums affordable to keep costs low for our employees.
• Whether it's vacation, holidays, illness, or growing your family, Pennymac provides time off programs for when life happens.
• We know your health is important. Pennymac offers wellness programs and has in-house gyms in many of our locations.
• Our dedicated internal Career Desk promotes growth within the organization, and our Tuition Reimbursement Program helps you to achieve your goals.
• We support your long-term financial wellness with a competitive 401k match and retirement benefits.

To learn more about the benefits that bring it home: Visit us at https://www.pennymac.com/careers/why-pennymac#benefits.
Salary
$109,000 - $250,000