Sr. JAVA Technical Architect

Role Purpose

To ensure success as a technical architect, you should have extensive knowledge of enterprise networking systems, advanced problem-solving skills, and the ability to project manage. A top-class technical architect can design and implement any size system to perfectly meet the needs of the client.

Responsibility

A Solution Architect is responsible for design as well as delivery of various modules and integrations for the solutions based on iSMRT platform. He/she will work on creating a very high performance and scalable implementation for the integrated solutions that solve real-world customer problems, using the next gen technologies.

He/she will be responsible to lead a small development team of committed tech leads and developers.

He/she will be responsible for understanding the business needs, current landscape and identify common needs to help create scalable integrations for use across domains and customizations.

He/she will work closely with program management team, business stakeholders and customer stakeholders to design, develop and release effective integrated solutions.

He/she must be responsive, possess a learning attitude, and should be able to propose optimal solutions that help the team succeed within an open, fast-paced collaborative environment. Candidate should be able to handle a small technology team for execution in Agile methodologies.

General

• Bachelors / masters degree in computer science (CS, IT or other related streams would be preferred).
• Total experience 13+Yrs

• At least 9+ years of hands-on Software Design and Development experience using Java EE and open-source technologies with some knowledge on UI technologies.

• The selected candidate is expected to be the technology champion & owner of specific modules / component(s) and the Go-To person for any technical issues for entire development team for tasks related to design, development and debugging.

• He/she must be a self-motivated, creative, and innovative individual with good communication skills. He/she should be able to demonstrate excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Extremely hands-on (90% time) and should be able to help the team to debug and fix complex issues.

• Creativity, Personal Drive, Innovation, Problem Solving are a must

Skills and Experience

• Proven experience in building large, real time, mission critical enterprise applications based on open-source platforms.

Must Have Skills:

• Candidates must have exceptional knowledge of the Java 8+ platform, especially in areas of Object-Oriented Design, Concurrency, NIO, and Collections. They must have strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms.

• Candidate must have a working knowledge of AWS platform with good understanding of services like S3, SQS, SNS, EC2, Load balancers etc.

• Candidates must be able to demonstrate experience in creating performing, scalable and distributed middle-tier frameworks.

• Good understanding of Microservices based architecture is required using Spring Boot or equivalent.

• Strong DB knowledge on RDBMS databases like PostGreSQL, MySQL etc.

• Strong working knowledge of Spring, REST APIs, Swagger

• Knowledge on integration patterns and their uses

• Good documentation skills able to create design documents for solution proposals

• Good presentation skills able to create working UML/Flow diagrams (e.g. draw.io, LucidChart etc) and present to different stakeholders

Good to Have

• Previous exposure to solutions/implementations involving integration of multiple systems not restricted to using REST/API/Web Services/File Drops

• Be able to independently run different POCs using emerging technologies.

• Hands-on experience with at least one open source Workflow Management (or BPM) and one Rules framework/too will be an advantage.

• Experience using popular Spring Middleware (like Spring Data, Batch, and Security)

• Strong analysis and design skills: Candidates must be able to visualize and depict any problem using UML models in most efficient and elegant manner. Previous experience in using UML tools is very much desired.

• Experience in motivating, challenging & growing a small but highly technical team is desirable

• Candidates are expected to have experience with Agile methodology.

• Experience with performance engineering and tuning large and complex applications is desired.