OCLC

Senior Architect – Resource Sharing

OCLC

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Dublin • Ohio • United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

SDLC

About the role

  • Own the architectural integrity of assigned systems, ensuring solutions are cohesive, scalable, and aligned with long-term product and platform direction
  • Translate product strategy into executable technical architecture, guiding teams from concept through delivery
  • Act as the senior technical advisor to engineering and product leadership on complex system design, integrations, and modernization initiatives
  • Drive architectural clarity through lightweight decision records, diagrams, and standards that accelerate delivery rather than slow it
  • Identify systemic risks, technical debt, and cross-team dependencies early, and help teams resolve them pragmatically
  • Champion secure-by-design, observable, resilient, and operable architectures suitable for globally deployed SaaS products
  • Foster alignment across teams by promoting shared patterns, reusable services, and consistent engineering practices
  • Mentor engineers and technical leads, strengthening architectural thinking across the organization
  • Provide leadership to organization in specific area of expertise
  • Assumes the technical lead and is the architect for major OCLC systems or concepts
  • Insures that information and trends within their area of expertise are effectively communicated to relevant business units within OCLC
  • Prototyping systems in anticipation of new requirements
  • Develops functional requirements from prototype systems
  • Analyze and solve problems in existing systems
  • Design, code and test multiple modules of a system in a timely manner
  • Uses industry standard programming techniques to translate requirements and designs into code
  • Evaluates and recommends major changes to development practices and continually seeks improvements to development procedures in such areas as - New languages and operating systems, Relevant ISO and NISO standards within OCLC projects, Improvements to system performance and design, and Interpretation of all OCLC ISO-9000 procedures and the SDLC, as they pertain to their work unit
  • Insures that project teams plan and participate in load, capacity, and performance analysis and/or testing
  • Represents OCLC’s position by participating on or leading relevant standards committees such as ISO, NISO, ACM, and IEEE
  • Leads the implementation of standards within OCLC systems
  • Identifies new opportunities with 3rd party solutions and technique for OCLC applications with the ability to understand the impact and analyze the risk
  • Participates in major architectural reviews and plans
  • Other tasks as assigned

Requirements

  • Master’s degree required plus 8 to 12 years experience at a high technical level of knowledge and experience
  • Equivalent experience without a Master’s degree is 10 to 14 years experience at a high technical level of knowledge and experience
  • Candidate must be sponsored by an OCLC Vice President
  • Demonstrated a proven ability to provide corporate wide leadership in their area of expertise
  • Possesses specific industry expertise in one area such as user Interfaces, telecom, performance, or a single large OCLC system
  • Ability to implement industry standard programming techniques by Mastering advanced fundamental software development concepts, practices, and procedures, and Having the ability to analyze and solve problems in existing systems
Benefits
  • Free use of our on-site fitness center, gym sports, group exercise classes, and game room
  • Onsite catering and cafeteria subsidized by OCLC
  • Health and wellness events
  • Paid parental leave and adoption assistance
  • Tuition reimbursement and Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility
  • Company-subsidized pricing on local tickets and memberships
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
system architecturetechnical designprogramming techniquesprototypingload analysiscapacity analysisperformance analysissoftware developmentISO standardsNISO standards
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationstrategic thinkingdecision-makingalignment facilitationrisk analysistechnical advising
Certifications
Master's degreeISO-9000 certification