Principal Architect – Geospatial & Location Intelligence

As a Principal Architect at HERE, you will play a pivotal role in enabling customer success through high-quality, effective technical partnerships. You will be responsible for designing and validating robust, scalable system architectures that support the creation, maintenance, and utilization of HERE’s map products.

Your work will involve developing clear, deliberate, and consistent architectural designs, validated through prototypes and proof-of-concepts (PoCs). You will collaborate across technical and non-technical teams, ensuring that architectural decisions are well-documented and effectively communicated.

This role requires a pragmatic, hands-on approach, a strong analytical mindset, and a solid theoretical foundation. A background in distributed systems, data modelling, and geospatial applications is essential for success.

Responsibilities:

• Design and deliver end-to-end system integration architectures, including data models, interoperability strategies, and content interfaces

• Produce clear, formal documentation of architectural proposals and decisions

• Collaborate with peers across architecture, engineering, product, sales, and customer teams to provide a comprehensive view of systems and solutions

• Work closely with product engineering teams to incorporate external feedback into product planning and development

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship on mission-critical topics across organizational boundaries

• Stay current with relevant technologies, tools, and industry trends, and continuously seek to expand your knowledge

Who are you:

• Extensive experience delivering and maintaining complex software systems across multiple platforms and environments

• Demonstrated success in senior architecture with a track record of guiding teams and making high-impact technical decisions  

• Proficient in systems programming with expertise in at least one JVM-based language (e.g., Java, Scala)

• Hands-on experience with big data and distributed processing technologies such as Apache Spark, Parquet, Sedona

• Familiarity with GIS technologies, location-based services, or digital mapping is required

• Experience with data modeling and database schemas is a strong plus

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences

• Strong foundation in computer science and software engineering; a degree in Computer Science or a related field is highly preferred

What we offer?

• Work with cutting edge, modern technologies

• Fantastic & talented people from 60+ countries worldwide

• Great coworkers and an international environment

• Flexible working hours

• A great work-life balance

• Competitive salary plus bonus

• Opportunities to learn, grow and develop company hackathons, technical talks, and trainings

• DevOps working culture in an Agile environment

• Challenging problems to solve

• Brown bag talks, team events and more!