Senior Software Architect

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design and develop effective and efficient end to end solutions for complex business problems 
• Responsible for non-functional quality measures including performance, availability, scalability, maintainability 
• Take proactive role in project scoping, planning, design, and development to drive successful solution delivery 
• Deliver solutions with high Business complexity 
• Research new technologies, software, and tools and provide recommendations and/or prototypes 
• Work with the development team/s on feasibility analysis for the projects 
• Produce documents relating to application architecture, design steps, integration processes and testing procedures relating to each product developed. 
• Define best practices in coding and design 
• Review design and code to ensure its compliance with the best practices and coding standards 
• Provide technical guidance and consultation to scrum teams 
• Administer training throughout various phases of the development cycle 
• Work in a cross-group collaborative environment 
• Work with legacy code to improve the quality or to integrate the system with third party applications. 

Job Qualifications:

• Expertise with hands-on experience in design and development of web-based enterprise software systems 
• Proficient knowledge of cloud design patterns 
• Prior experience in Azure cloud or other major public cloud provider technologies, EventHubs, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker and containers as a plus. 
• Strong technical skills in variety of Java technologies including but not limited to: JavaEE, Spring, JMS, AMQP, SOAP/RESTful web services, Maven, Tomcat, Core Java, JS, HTML5 
• Proven skills in designing API, Front end components, core frameworks 
• Solid experience with Object-Oriented principles, Design Patterns, and Architectural Patterns 
• Strong experience with relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL), familiar or experience with NoSQL databases is a plus 
• Strong problem solving and creative thinking skills 
• Familiar with Agile methodologies (Scrum, XP) and design modeling techniques 
• Experience in application performance monitoring and tuning 
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written 
• Ability to communicate design rationale and build consensus 
• Ability to work both independently and in a team environment.