Solution Architect
Location: Okemos, MI
Experience: 10+ years
Track: Consulting
Practice: Solution Architecture
About Us:
Job Description:
Ideal Candidate Description:
- Expert on API Gateway (general API Gateway concept - Not the AWS API Gateway service)
- Expert on IT Security.
- Expert on Performance issues.
- Expert on UI and service integration.
- Expert on service to service integration.
- Expert on automated testing.
- Good understanding on Maven.
Requirement:
- Is a creative thinker and great teammate who can come up with innovative approaches to help resolve complex issues.
- Has good analytical and problem-solving skills and can break down a solution into smaller units of work and produce a solution roadmap.
- Has written high quality, well-tested shared components that can be leveraged by multiple systems.
- Takes pride in software craftsmanship, diving deep into code and constantly innovating.
- Has extensive experience in back-end development, service design, data modeling and web development.
- Takes requirements (business features, technical debts and internal enhancements) and designs resilient solutions.
- Can support and collaborate with multiple development teams and provide technical guidance.
- Can step into specific projects to supply additional management, coding and engineering capacity as needed to make projects successful.
- Has expert knowledge in distributed systems with a heavy focus in conversational semantics for large scale distributed systems.
- Is passionate about webscale technologies as applied to large scale growing businesses.
Desired Skills:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and can explain a complex technical solution to business stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to translate customer needs into well documented requirements, architectural plans and produce near production ready prototypes.
- Expert at producing sequence flow diagrams, solution diagrams, architectural component diagrams
- Two years of experience of mentoring team leads and engineers.
- Demonstrated willingness to learn from peers and co-workers junior to them.
- Ability to enforce responsible engineering practices (including automated unit and stress testing, engineering for data security, resiliency, scalability, etc.)
- Proficient in multiple programming languages like: Java, Python, Ruby, Scala, Groovy, GO, BASH
- Expert knowledge of Java or Scala or Erlang with 7+ years of experience.
- In depth experience developing high volume transactions and distributed applications– both real-time and batch.
- A deep understanding of performance tuning and scalability.
- Development experience with REST WebServices and various data interchange and representation formats such as JSON, XML, HTML etc.
- Development experience with RDBMS, distributed cache (Memcached, Redis) and NoSQL database.
- Deep end to end architectural understanding of distributed applications.
- Experience with containerization technologies (such as Docker) and familiarity with micro-service architecture and development patterns.
- A deep and demonstrable understanding of design patterns.
- Knowledge and understanding of application servers such as JBoss, Tomcat and Weblogic.
- Development experience with security such as securing the users and their data.
- Development experience of writing batch jobs with performing high volume transactions.
- Knowledge and understanding of work in modern CI environments: version control, build tool, CI server
- Knowledge of Open Source libraries, tools and frameworks. Experience with any modern open source libraries would be an added advantage.
- Experience with Agile development methodology.
- Experience in HIPAA and PCI security Domain.
- Development experience with modern technologies such Elastic Search, Kafka, Kibana,
- Logstash, Hibernate/JPA, Spring, Angular. Experience with any modern technologies would be an added advantage.
- Experience building and deploying software onto AWS or Openstack using Chef, or similar technologies.
- Experience with big data and data analytics applications, or similar systems programming experience.
- Strong expertise in text parsing, analytics and machine learning.
- Experience with SAFE framework.
- Experience with Java Message Service (JMS) and Message Driven Bean (MDB) development is preferred.
- Expert knowledge of JDBC and managing transactions.
- Understanding of Service Oriented Architecture.
Our Benefits: