Solution Architect

Job Requirements

• Responsible for project-level solution design ensuring the solution design optimally satisfies needs and expectations of the project stakeholders
• Advocates and champions Enterprise Architecture and Domain Architecture recommendations to the project team
• Responsible for overall solution quality; security, performance, flexibility, availability, etc.
• Responsible for deciding technologies to use in the solution not already defined by the Domain Architecture and Enterprise Architecture teams
• Responsible for architecture deliverables such as; non-functional requirements, system diagrams, data models, and traceability matrix to track and monitor the solution from requirements to design to implementation to test cases

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of hands on working experience on Java, related JEE/J2EE technology stack, Frontend technologies like React.js
• 5+ years of hands-on Architecture experience is required
• Experience must include programming APIs; Java/JEE; Hibernate; Spring Framework; JSP; AJAX; JavaScript; XML and XML parsers; SOAP/REST web services; service oriented architectures (SOA); data modeling skills; and writing stored procedures.
• Retail and payment domain experience (highly valued)
• Experience with integration of third party tools and cloud middleware platforms
• Able to design SaaS solutions that scale and perform with rock solid reliability, ability to identify and build-in key application monitoring hooks to allow for optimal management of the solution.
• Capable of working with Operations to plan major infrastructure upgrades, to troubleshoot issues and to tune the environment for optimal performance and uptime.
• Must be capable of providing leadership for junior and senior software engineers alike, understands how to leverage and enhance their current skills
• Ability to use and communicate system design patterns and anti-patterns
• Ability to manage solution architecture design to align to business value
• Ability to build solution architecture models using UML.
• Ability to strongly justify the proposed architecture and design in a comparative mode.
• Ability to develop and manage architecture models such as activity models, class models and data models
• Minimum of 5 years developing real world scaled solutions with knowledge of full application development lifecycle (SDLC) and methodologies; waterfall, agile and hybrid.
• Excellent presentation, verbal, written, and listening skills.
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills including collaboration, facilitation and negotiation.