Solution Architect

Location

Auckland, New Zealand
- Category

Software & Technology

Are you an experienced Solution Architect looking for your next meaty project? IDEXX Veterinary Software is looking for a Solution Architect - Technical Lead to join our Auckland team.

This role will be **hybrid onsite**, 4 days per week in our Auckland office.

This role will be supporting the full range of IDEXX Veterinary Software products, including our practice management software's, and pet owner engagement platforms. We’re building the worlds first saas vertical for veterinary health, so we need an experienced architect to help align our products into our veterinary software ecosystem.

However the first project this role will be focused on is helping to leave the redevelopment of a platform used by 150k+ users worldwide, powering over 50k appointments daily. Your work will directly enhance the customer experience and enable our dev teams to move faster and work more independently. As we scale to support enterprise-level customers, smart architecture will be key to staying fast, flexible, and ready for what’s next.

This role will spend it’s time 50% hands on with the tools coding - we're looking for a developer at heart And 50% collaborating with our development teams, gathering requirements, understanding workflows to find the best path forward.

What is IDEXX Veterinary Software? Within IDEXX our portfolio of software solutions are dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of pets, people, and livestock around the world. Through the power of the cloud, our solutions simplify the flow of information across any practice and link vets to what they need when they need it. Patient data. Client communications. Business insights. All at their fingertips.

Our journey is solving veterinary practices’ most pressing needs by focusing on innovation to drive meaningful improvements in animal health.

**A bit more about the role, you will**:

- Develop and maintain the north star for the teams roadmap
- Build proof of concepts, and early access features in conjunction with the team
- Provide design recommendations based on long-term organisation strategy
- Create architecture and development standards
- Participate in development of new product requirements, features and design
- Act as internal consultant, advocate, mentor and change agent.
- Production of documentation to assist in planning for the future of the product
- Documenting architectural decisions (reasoning).

What you’ll need:

- Seasoned software engineering expertise in a modern software language. We use PHP, Go-Lang and Typescript.
- Experience working with deconstructing and re-architecting a monolithic architecture - yip, we are changing the engine of our plane while it is flying...
- AWS experience is a must
- Experience partnering with larger engineering teams - we have 2-3 development teams this role will be working with.
- Experience with database structures and designing high performance databases.
- Experience with event streaming with Kafka.
- Sound understanding of business requirements and translating these into conceptual, logical, and physical models.
- Genuine collaboration, capable of strategising an approach to a problem that inspires/influences others to buy-in.
- Highly effective technical coach and mentor for engineering teams.
- Familiarity with multiple web and cloud technologies and an unbiased approach to technology selection

What you can expect from us:

- Rewarding salary package ($140k-$180k base range) + bonus structure
- Southern Cross Health Insurance subsidy
- Hybrid working (4-1 currently) with a great office space to collaborate - including a gym and roof top bar
- Coffee + snacks + food truck Friday 3x per month
- Animal friendly office

Why IDEXX:
We’re proud of the work we do, because our work matters. An innovation leader in every industry we serve, we follow our Purpose and Guiding Principles to help pet owners worldwide keep their companion animals healthy and happy, to ensure safe drinking water for billions, and to help farmers protect livestock and poultry from disease. We have customers in over 175 countries and a global workforce of over 10,000 talented people.

So, what does that mean for you? We enrich the livelihoods of our employees with a positive and respectful work culture that embraces challenges and encourages learning and discovery. At IDEXX, you will be supported by competitive compensation, incentives, and benefits while enjoying purposeful work that drives improvement.

Let’s pursue what matters together.
- IDEXX values a diverse workforce and workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply._
- IDEXX is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, nat