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Job title : Senior Principal Infrastructure Architect (Backstage Platform)
Job Grade : Director
Location : Jersey City, NJ, United States (Hybrid)
The Impact you will have in this role:
Your Primary Responsibilities:
Qualifications :
Talents Needed for Success:
Preferred :
Job Grade : Director
Location : Jersey City, NJ, United States (Hybrid)
The Impact you will have in this role:
- Being a member of IT Ent Arch Data & Corp Tech team, the Senior Backstage Engineering lead will design and build an enterprise-grade Developer Portal and blueprint orchestration platform using Backstage. This role will be central to enabling self-service infrastructure provisioning, standardization, and platform engineering maturity across the organization.
- The individual will help establish reusable platform capabilities that improve developer experience, accelerate environment provisioning, and enable API-first orchestration across cloud, infrastructure, CI/CD, identity, and security services.
Your Primary Responsibilities:
- Design and implement the enterprise Developer Portal using Backstage.
- Build and maintain Backstage plugins, scaffolder templates, and workflow automation.
- Develop an executable blueprint orchestration layer integrated with enterprise systems.
- Integrate Backstage with CI/CD, GitHub/GitOps, and related enterprise platforms.
- Define and manage software catalog structures, ownership models, taxonomy, and metadata standards.
- Enable self-service environment provisioning and developer experience improvements for application and platform teams.
- Implement RBAC, authentication, authorization, and enterprise identity integrations such as OAuth and SSO.
- Drive API-first orchestration across platform services and reusable enterprise capabilities.
- Collaborate with platform, cloud, infrastructure, application, and security teams to align on standards, integration patterns, and delivery priorities.
- Establish best practices for platform engineering, internal developer portals, blueprint lifecycle management, and developer experience.
Qualifications :
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience
- Bachelor's degree preferred and/or equivalent experience
- Demonstrated ability to deliver production-ready platform capabilities in partnership with architecture, engineering, security, and operations teams.
- Hands-on background across developer tooling, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, identity integration, API automation, and cloud-native platforms.
Talents Needed for Success:
- Min 7 years of software engineering, platform engineering, or related technology delivery experience.
- Strong expertise in Backstage platform development and internal developer portal implementation.
- Proven experience building custom Backstage plugins, templates, scaffolder actions, and scaffolder workflows.
- Strong hands-on experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and React.
- Experience integrating Backstage with enterprise tooling such as Jenkins, Terraform, TechRadar, GitHub or Bitbucket, Vault, ArgoCD, and GitOps workflows.
- Strong understanding of developer self-service platforms, internal developer portals, and platform engineering practices.
- Experience with API-driven orchestration, workflow automation, and reusable infrastructure or application blueprints.
- Experience implementing RBAC and enterprise authentication patterns including OAuth, SSO, and related identity integrations.
- Solid understanding of software catalog models, service metadata, ownership, lifecycle, and blueprint concepts.
Preferred :
- Experience integrating Backstage with Kubernetes or OpenShift in an AWS environment.
- Familiarity with platform engineering operating models, golden paths, paved roads, and developer experience metrics.
- Experience operating in large-scale enterprise environments with complex governance, security, and integration requirements.
- Financial services experience is preferred but not required.