Senior Technical Architect

About The Role:

We are looking for a Certified Senior Architect to join our team with a strong technical background and experience in architecture for digital portals, AWS, CMS, and multiple integrationsboth direct and through an orchestration layer. The Senior Architect will be responsible for leading complex projects, working with clients to understand their needs, and developing creative solutions to meet their requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate requirements into a solution vision, identifying solution options, and developing high-level business or IT system specifications.
• Prepare high-level designs, ensuring adherence to requirements, design principles, and overall solution vision.
• Develop technology specifications and leverage existing technologies to ensure new solutions are optimized for business use.
• Apply architectural and engineering concepts to design solutions that meet business requirements, considering aspects like scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, flexibility, availability, and manageability.
• Optimize system performance and reliability to handle growing data and user demands.
• Provide technical oversight and governance, ensuring adherence to RWS coding standards.
• Offer insight and guidance as to the most appropriate technical solutions.
• Align with other tech leads to ensure integrations are planned into roadmaps as appropriate.
• Manage risk related to delivery timelines, compliance, or technical platform selection.
• Champion and embed Agile processes following RWS digital standards.

Technical Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentoring to the development team in implementing Java-based solutions.
• Design and implement microservices architecture using Java frameworks such as Spring Boot, hibernate etc.
• Design, Develop and maintain middleware and orchestration layers using Java and microservices architecture.
• Ensure compliance with CI/CD pipelines leveraging tools like Jenkins and Azure DevOps.
• Apply best practices in unit testing, integration testing, and code reviews.
• Utilize version control systems such as GIT for effective collaboration and change management.
• Leverage cloud platforms (AWS preferred) to deploy, monitor, and optimize Java-based applications.
• Review code and collaborate with the development team to implement solutions effectively.

Skills and Experience

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience (15+ years overall, 3+ years in a similar role).
• Strong expertise in Java (latest version) with hands-on experience in architecture and implementation.
• Proven experience in designing, integrating, and managing complex solutions across multiple platforms and technologies.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g MongoDB).
• Good knowledge of messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar.
• Deep understanding of microservices design patterns, event- driven architecture.
• Good knowledge of caching systems like Redis, Memcached, Hazelcast or similar.
• Comprehensive understanding of hardware, software, applications, and systems engineering.
• Design enterprise-grade auditing frameworks to capture and store system and application events securely.
• Experience with front- end technologies, specifically React, CSS and AJAX.
• Proficiency in DevOps tools like Jenkins, JIRA, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Cloud experience (AWS preferred) with strong knowledge of deployment and monitoring.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage workloads effectively, prioritize tasks, and multitask in a fast-paced environment.

Life at RWS - We work hard together to deliver for our customers; our expertise, professionalism, and determination to never let others down drives us to be passionate and serious about what we do, deliver customer value, yet always adding a human touch.

RWS embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics.