Company Description
When you work for John Crane, you join a community driven by pioneering spirit and a legacy of innovation. Our engineered solutions drive reliability, uptime and energy efficiency, empowering the world’s largest energy service providers to achieve sustainability goals that shape the future of our world. If you’re ready to accelerate the new energy transition through technology leadership, creative solutions and service excellence, you'll fit right in.
Job Description
Key activities:
Define and govern architecture standards, patterns, and design principles across teams
Design and implement cloud-native, microservices-based, and API-driven solutions
Provide technical leadership to development teams and review solution designs
Work hands-on in critical components and complex problem solving
Integrate security controls into SDLC and ensure secure design practices.
Collaborate with business, product, and program teams to align technology with priorities.
Monitor system performance and continuously improve solutions based on metrics.
Key accountabilities:




End-to-End Architecture Ownership
Technical Leadership & Design Authority
Hands-on Engineering & Complex Problem Solving
DevOps, Security & Quality Integration
Stakeholder Alignment & Business Impact
Qualifications
Skills and Experience:
Experience
8+ years overall, including 5+ years in architecture roles
Experience designing complex, large-scale distributed systems
Exposure to Agile/DevOps environments
Strong ability to translate business needs into technical solutions
Technical Skills
Cloud platforms: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
Architecture: Microservices, API-first, event-driven systems
DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Observability
Programming: Java, Python, C#, .NET, C/C++
Security: Secure design, IAM, Web/App security, WAF, IDS
Systems: Linux, networking, cloud-native, edge/IoT
Data: Event streaming, real-time analytics, ML/AI platforms (Preferable)
People Skills
Must demonstrate the ability to work

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