LBS (Location Based Services) Platform Architect

Job description: LBS (Location Based Services) Platform Architect

Job location: Blackline headquarters, Calgary, AB, Canada

Posting date: Sept 30, 2009

Reporting to: Blackline GPS Software Engineering Manager

About Blackline GPS
Want to join an exciting and growing technology company? Are you ready to enhance the quality of customer’s lives and increase their peace-of-mind? Join us and share our vision of delivering wireless location solutions for consumers and businesses that Protect. Share. Connect™. Blackline GPS™ solutions provide location, security, and safety awareness through real-time GPS locating, location scheduling, motion-detection, GPS perimeter monitoring, and sharing features.

Overview
The Blackline GPS LBS core platform is responsible for communication with wireless location devices, various layers of business logic, mobile messaging, mapping, event triggering, wireless carriers gateways, data storage, and various interfaces for consumers, businesses and other partners.
The LBS Platform Architect is responsible for leading Blackline’s LAMP-based LBS platform architecture design, development, and deployment in context of the company’s business models, processes, and technical requirements. This role is responsible for technology assessment, server design, data storage design, network topology design, identification and implementation of best practices, quality of service monitoring, logging, ensuring achievement of service level policies, with support to development teams.

Duties

• Lead the design, development, documentation, and testing of the Blackline GPS LBS platform

• Ability to both deliver solutions for the requirements of today, but by planning and creating a long term plan and infrastructure that will support the scaling of the Blackline LBS platform of tomorrow

• The development and maintenance of a platform plan to ensure continuous operation of the Blackline GPS LBS platform including fault detection, failover, and notifications

• Monitor performance to planned requirements

• Communicate project progress, hurdles and improvements

• Responsible for customer data security, backup, protection, and privacy implementation

• Responsible for platform disaster recovery and business continuity contingency plan

• Responsible for the technical component of carrier relationships and other service providers including mapping, SMS, data providers, etc.

• Responsible for Liaising with IT vendors to assess solution offerings for possible adoption

Technical skills

• Expert understanding of the LAMP stack, specifically Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl, Python, and familiarity with available technology stacks.

• HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, Java, C/C++, SSL, object oriented design

• TCP/IP, UDP/IP, VPN, GSM/GPRS, SSH, LDAP

Experience

• Proven execution of Web 2.0 and SaaS implementation methodologies and systems

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in software development roles with prior experience developing platforms for social networking, wireless telecommunication-based services, and/or commerce systems

• Demonstrated prior experience designing, developing, and delivering enterprise platform applications, interfaces, and services

• Demonstrated proficiency designing and developing functional software modules in C/C++ and Java

Education requirements

• Required: Bachelor's, Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science and/or Electrical Engineering and/or Information Technology or related, proven experience.

• Preferred: Master's, Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science and/or Electrical Engineering and/or Information Technology and related, proven experience.
   

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