United States

Location is flexible within the U.S. This position is remote.

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The mission of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is to conserve the lands and waters upon which all life depends. As a science-based organization, we develop innovative, on-the-ground solutions to the world's toughest environmental challenges so that people and nature can thrive. Our work is guided by our values, which include a commitment to diversity and respect for people, communities, and cultures. From a rewarding mission to career development and flexible schedules, there are many reasons to love life #insideTNC. Want to know more? Check out our TNC Talent playlist on YouTube to hear stories from staff or visit Glassdoor.

One of TNC's primary goals is to cultivate an inclusive work environment so that employees around the globe have a sense of belonging and feel that their unique contributions are valued. We know we'll only achieve our mission by hiring and engaging a diverse staff that reflects the communities in which we work. Recognizing that people bring talent and skills that have been developed outside the scope of a job, we take a holistic approach to recruitment that considers life experience in addition to the professional requirements listed in our postings. Please apply - we'd love to hear from you. To quote a popular saying at TNC, "you'll join for the mission, and you'll stay for the people."

The Principal Applications Architect for Corporate Systems is the technology lead in providing vision, defining strategy, and designing solutions using their expert technical knowledge. This position will participate in all aspects of Software development life cycle for NextGen cloud implementations. They lead solution designs by working with engineering team with the opportunity to be a part of an exciting digital transformation that will impact all corporate systems client (HR, Finance and Office of General Counsel) at TNC.

This position reports directly to the Associate Director Application Development and Support for Corporate Systems. This position will have supervisory responsibilities.

Are you looking for work you can believe in? At TNC we strive to embody a philosophy of Work that You Can Believe in where you can feel like you are making a difference every day. Guided by science, TNC creates innovative, on-the-ground solutions to our world's toughest challenges so that people and nature can thrive together. We're looking for someone with deep expertise who has industry savvy and motivated to solve problems through technology for Nature. This includes:

• Providing application development leadership to Corporate Systems team, IT, and our business partners
• Designing and developing solutions that have high value and impact with low maintenance costs.
• Integrating data between various internal and external applications.
• Fostering a learning culture through mentoring Corporate Systems staff and application developers.
• Working closely within and in partnership with other IT staff to understand and analyze business problems and how they can be solved through technology.
• Leading highly complex technology projects with varying levels of impact on organization-wide initiatives.
• Acting as a lead technologist on technology application maintenance and improvement projects related to application upgrades, improvements, integrations, conversion, and enhancements.
• Defining Corporate Systems team best practices and procedures for code development, coding standards, code promotion, version control, CI/CD, code debugging, and all aspects of the development life cycle striving for operational excellence and efficient operations.
• Bringing extensive knowledge of the key technologies, industry trends, and players including Application Development in Amazon Web services, Software development best practices, code promotion, coding standards and release management.
• Participating in the design, vendor evaluation, implementation, and management of multiple projects or systems simultaneously.
• Supervising a small team of Corporate Systems Application Development and Support Engineers.
• Partnering with the Enterprise Architecture team for defining new technology Architecture for Corporate Systems.
• Ensuring that Corporate Systems applications are operating smoothly and receive the necessary enhancements to keep us thriving.

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10 years of experience in Information Technology field with 9 years of recent relevant experience with full life-cycle technology application development for highly complex, organizationally impacting initiatives.
• 10 years of experience with large global organization working with development teams across different countries to build complex business solutions.
• 10 years of product development level experience with the design, development, and support from the ground up of highly complex, organizationally impacting solutions that involve internal and external facing customers in diverse business domains, including, Legal, Finance, non-profit, and others.
• Experience with leading software development in Agile teams, including creating high-quality Stories, Epics, planning timelines, and leading Agile ceremonies.
• Experience in at least 2 software languages, including at least one object-oriented language. Examples: Java, Python, JavaScript, or C#.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining REST APIs for data integrations from ground up. With proven experience with high-load APIs that interface public and internal Web applications.
• Experience with application security, including API security models, network security, database, and credentials storage encryption. Being able to design policies that follow the cloud security best practices.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining AWS Serverless applications from the ground up.
• Experience with at Relational and NoSQL databases on AWS, with hands-on experience building ETL processes for large scale datasets.
• Experience with the systems life cycle, project management principles and programming best practices and concepts.
• Experience analyzing highly complex system-wide technical specifications and interfaces, debugging applications programs, and producing user and technical documentation.
• Experience as a DevOps team member with a focus on cloud-based solutions, specifically on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience with AWS services, including but not limited to EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, and CloudFormation.
• Experience with "Infrastructure as Code" with complex projects that involve Network, Compute, Database layers.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's degree or 15 years of experience in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• Excellent collaboration and facilitation skills including the ability to bring together various teams and resources to deliver results and possesses an understanding of how to utilize emotional intelligence to navigate complex organizational and interpersonal dynamics.
• Have achieved at least one AWS Professional and two AWS Associate certification.
• Experience in designing resilient and optimized cloud application architectures on AWS.
• Extensive experience documenting and exploring options for ambiguous problems and leading discussions to achieve consensus across teams.
• Extensive experience with Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation to provision large scale applications on AWS.
• Experience with designing and development of Web Applications utilizing modern JavaScript frameworks such as React Framework.
• Experience creating Lambda functions to perform infrastructure automation tasks.
• Experience in building and maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines to provision application and infrastructure components.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and best practices and supporting technologies such as the Atlassian suite of products.
• Experience with Git, Git Workflow and Bitbucket for version control.
• Experience with modeling the best practice of the software development life cycle for a global organization.
• Experience with developing or implementing data management and self-service reporting tools for global organizations with tools such as QuickSight and AWS Glue.
• Experience with operational best practices in the cloud, including Alarms, Metrics, Dashboards, and defining and documenting processes for support teams.
• Proficient in troubleshooting and resolving production issues, collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Strong time management skills and the ability to prioritize multiple competing demands.
• Multi-lingual skills and multi-cultural or cross-cultural experience appreciated.

Since 1951, TNC has been doing work you can believe in. Through grassroots action, we have grown from a small non-profit into one of the most effective and wide-reaching environmental organizations in the world. Thanks to more than 1 million members, over 400 scientists, and the dedicated efforts of our diverse staff and partners, we impact conservation around the world!

TNC offers a competitive, comprehensive benefits package including health care benefits, flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) plan with an 8% employer match, parental leave, accrued paid time off, life insurance, disability coverage, employee assistance program, other life and work well-being benefits. Learn more about our benefits on our Culture Tab on nature.org/careers.

We're proud to offer a flexible work environment that supports of the health and well-being of the people we employ.

The starting pay range for a candidate selected for this position is generally within the range of $113,900 - $170,900 for annual base salary. This range only applies to candidates whose country of employment is the USA. Where a successful candidate's actual pay will fall within this range will be based on a variety of factors, including, for example, the candidate's location, qualifications, specific skills, and experience. Please note countries outside the USA would have a different pay range in the local currency based on the local labor market, and not tied to USA pay or ranges. Your geographic location will be confirmed during the recruitment.

To apply for job ID 56518, submit your materials online by using the Apply Now button at https://careers.nature.org/. Need help applying? Visit our recruitment page or contact applyhelp@tnc.org.

The Nature Conservancy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our commitment to diversity includes the recognition that our conservation mission is best advanced by the leadership and contributions of people of diverse backgrounds, beliefs and culture. Recruiting and mentoring staff to create an inclusive organization that reflects our global character is a priority and we encourage applicants from all cultures, races, colors, religions, sexes, national or regional origins, ages, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.

The successful applicant must meet the requirements of The Nature Conservancy's background screening process.

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An attractive salary and benefits package is part of TNC's value proposition to our employees. TNC strives to provide competitive pay and bases salaries on the geographic location of the role committing to being equitable across groups and providing hiring salary ranges when possible.

Since we support flexible and remote work for our employees, many positions have a flexible location within countries where we're registered as a Non-government Organization and established as an employer. This may mean we're unable to provide a hiring salary range in the posting for some of our positions. However, candidates invited to be part of our interview process will be provided their location specific range upon request.