Technical Architect

• Design using modern architectural patterns (layered, microservices, event driven, CQRS, SOA) and understand when not to use each.
• Lead API design efforts (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), ensuring versioning, backward compatibility, and consistent contract design.
• Model domains effectively using bounded contexts, aggregates, and clean ownership principles.
• Design integrations using messaging, pub/sub, streaming, workflows, and anti corruption layers.
• Own non functional design including scalability, resiliency, observability, maintainability, and multi tenant considerations.

2. Technical Fundamentals

• Drive data architecture decisions across relational, NoSQL, and time-series databases.
• Apply distributed system practices including retries, circuit breakers, timeouts, and consistency models.
• Contribute to cloud (Azure/AWS) and infrastructure design: containers, orchestration, networking, IaC, DNS, CDN, load balancing.
• Ensure secure system design using OAuth2/OIDC, secrets management, encryption, and threat modeling.
• Lead performance engineering work: profiling, capacity planning, backpressure, queue sizing, and SLO-driven tuning.

3. Delivery & Engineering Excellence

• Shape CI/CD strategy: pipelines, blue/green & canary releases, trunk-based development, artifact/versioning rules.
• Define test strategy across units, integration, contract, and E2E layers.
• Establish best observability practices (logs, metrics, traces, correlation IDs, dashboards).
• Lead reliability practices such as SLO/SLI definition, error budgets, chaos engineering, and graceful degradation.

4. Leadership & Influence

• Drive technical decision-making using tradeoff analysis and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
• Communicate effectively with engineering teams, executives, product, and security stakeholders.
• Align cross-team architecture with reference designs, reusable platforms, and governance models.
• Mentor engineers to elevate design and implementation quality.
• Plan migrations, assess risk, and lead spikes/POCs to mitigate uncertainty.

5. Documentation & Visualization

• Create clear architecture diagrams using C4, sequence diagrams, and data flow diagrams.
• Write architecture narratives explaining "why," tradeoffs, constraints, and operational models.
• Produce runbooks covering operations, failure modes, and on-call procedures.

• Experience with or understanding of:
• API gateways, service mesh patterns
• Caching & messaging systems (e.g., Redis, Kafka/RabbitMQ patterns)
• Identity providers & OIDC integration
• Observability stacks and OpenTelemetry

Healthcare Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents healthcare coverage through BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics. Premiums are subsidized by Synectics.

Dental Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents a dental plan through MetLife. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics.

Vision Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees vision insurance through VSP. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics.401(k) Plan: The Synectics Inc. Investment Savings Retirement Plan. Synectics offers all employees who are 21 years of age or older the opportunity to invest in the 401(k) Plan on the first enrollment date that is at least 30 days after employment begins. Enrollment dates are each January 1st, April 1st, July 1st, and October 1st.

Technical Certification Bonus: Synectics is pleased to award its employees a bonus of up to $500 for an approved professional certification. In determining the bonus amount, Synectics will consider the cost of the test(s) for any certification relating to your current position, achieved during your employment with us. Only one Certification Bonus per calendar year may be awarded per employee. Only current, active employees will be eligible to receive this bonus. It will be awarded 90 days after the Synectics office has received documentation confirming the successful completion of the certification.