What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Director, eCommerce Cloud Architecture position at Samsung Electronics America North America?
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The Senior Director, Platform Architecture role spans across the entire eCommerce platform, Mobile platform and Data Warehouse platform and Hosting Platform. It includes API specifications, data store modeling, system optimizations, performance and security. This position requires extensive research, design and proposal of solutions for the business requirements. This Senior Director will provide guidelines to build successful programs for the Samsung ecommerce team, distill complex requirements from business and operations teams, having the ability to translate them into generalized and simple technical concepts for implementation of the business needs. This role is also responsible for the security of the platform and customer information, providing guidance on the best industry practice to keep the platform and the customer information secure.
The Position :
- Define and Improve the Architecture of eCommerce Platforms
- Define and maintain the guidelines for cybersecurity leading the engineering team by defining the tenets and standards to secure the system from network to the application layer
- Advocate for the best practices to protect the users’ information and privacy by providing guidance on encryption standards, protocols and PII handling and anonymization
- Design, review and approve architectural solutions to solve complex functional and technical requirements
- Translate functional requirements from business and operations teams into simple, generalized and extensible concepts
- Develop and enhance distributed systems, reusing the existing capabilities fostering for a clean and extensible foundation for future programs / projects
- Advocate new tools, frameworks, technologies and standards to guide the engineering team on the system development
- Deep understanding of processes and techniques of software development lifecycle, including development, build, test and production deployment strategies
- Collaborate with Leadership teams on roadmap development with respect to feature prioritization, delivery, high-level estimates of effort, and designs
The Candidate :
The salary range for this role is expected to be between $300,000 and $350,000. Actual pay will be determined considering factors such as relevant skills and experience, and comparison to other employees in the role.
Salary : $300,000 - $350,000
