Java Architect

Who are we looking for :

A Solution Architect Looking for a strong professional with an in-depth understanding of how technology can help us achieve business goals. Must have a minimum of 12 years of overall experience, 5 years of architectural experience and at least 3 year with Microservices applications.

Technical Skills :

- Strong understanding and architectural experience with Microservices.

The following are must :

- Experience with SOA principles, design patterns, integration patterns

- Design experience in RESTful services

- Architectural tools such as Sparx EA or similar

- Hands-on with Spring, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.

- Development knowledge on web and app servers like WebLogic, Tomcat

- Design, configuration of Java applications using Kafka, JMS

- Experience in solutioning with Azure or similar

- Knowledge on either container-based implementation or PaaS

- Hands-on with DevOps and CI/CD

- Ability to design data model

- Strong review capabilities with experience on:

- Review of existing application architecture including database design

- Coding best practices, security best practices, OWASP Issues and resolutions

- Review project artifacts, Analyzes logs, application dumps

- Identify issues, provide fixes and recommendations

- Strong Solutioning Experience

- New development, migration, modernization

- Presales or RFX experience

- Assesses technical feasibility of business requirements.

- Estimation techniques

- Keep one-self up to date with technology

- Organizational activities such as:

- Center of excellences

- Evaluation of technologies

- Contribute to accelerators, reusable components

- Technical papers

- Trainings

- Presales and deals are mandatory (small-to-medium deals for Solution Architect (SA) and large deals for Enterprise Architect (EA))

- Understanding, strategizing for client programs such as Condor, Autobahn are mandatory (Working knowledge for SA and EA must have lead)

- Required to know breadth of technology depth is nice to have.

- PoC execution is required;

- CoE experience required for EA participation for SA

- Ability to do assessments, project reviews

- General awareness of project execution (technically) is required; May not have real hands-on.

Process Skills :

- Must be able to communicate fluently in English, both written and verbal.

- Excellent interpersonal communication and organizational skills to contribute as a leading member of global, distributed teams focused on delivering quality services and solutions.

- Able to distill complex technical challenges to actionable and explainable decisions.

- Inspire DevOps/CloudOps teams by building consensus and mediating compromises when necessary.

- Demonstrate excellent technical & architecture skills in the context of cloud based global platform/product design, service management and product lifecycle management.

- Providing technical connection between the project managers and developers.

- Working with clients and advising them on key architectural decisions concerning the platform and the supporting technologies.

Behavioral Skills :

- Excellent verbal and written communication

- Excellent organization and time management skills

Certification :

- AWS Certified Solution Architect