Software Architect

Grid Point, LLC

Reston, United States

4 days ago

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Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Experience required

5 years minimum

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

startup.jobs

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) .NET Framework Application Frameworks Unix Configuration Management Databases Continuous Integration Data Warehousing Relational Databases Software Design Patterns Java Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Apache Hadoop

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Hibernate (Java) Spring Framework JSON WildFly (JBoss AS) PostgreSQL Microsoft SQL Server OAuth OpenID Oracle (Applications) Software Architecture Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Scala (Programming Language) Service-Oriented Architecture Web Services Extensible Markup Language (XML) Information Technology Cassandra Osgi Restful APIs

Job description

In order to perform these responsibilities effectively, the Software Architect shall use tools, standard models, industry best practices, and creative design approaches to represent systems and/or to develop system prototypes, assets, or supporting assets. The Software Architect may also select and/or specify particular technical standards, tools, components, platforms which may be collectively tailored for a consistent and optimal overall system specification/design., * initially and periodically thereafter fully review the inventory of system design and software assets to assess degree of efficiency and effectiveness in supporting desired functional, usability, performance, scalability, reliability, and security capabilities.

prepare a comprehensive suite of designs/specifications and associated migration plan(s) to achieve optimal system design implementation to fully support all known and required system capabilities
prepare reference design examples for selected components or design patterns which may be more widely used and/or tailored in system implementation efforts
provide technical support and guidance to the Engineering team at large for the orderly and reliable maintenance and evolution of system design and capabilities
provide architectural/design support to the Data Warehouse team to achieve optimal DWH system design/implementation.
continuously assess emerging technologies for suitability/applicability in the master application framework of GridPoint system design
continuously monitor evolving GridPoint Product Management product initiatives to identify best solution paths as well as to identify critical errors in new product plans with respect to existing system fundamentals.

Requirements

B.S. Computer Science or related field… M.S. Computer Science highly preferred
Minimum 10 years of professional experience in highly senior design/architect roles
Minimum 10 years of experience with Unix internals; Java or .NET; XML/JSON; Oracle, Postgres, or SQL Server; application frameworks (e.g. J2EE, JBOSS, Spring, Hibernate, OSGI)
Minimum 5 years of experience with web services applications… RESTful designs preferred
Minimum 10 years of hands-on experience with database programming in Java or .NET with Oracle, Postgres, SQL Server or other RDBMS
Experience with one or more of the following is desired: scala, service oriented architectures, continuous integration, automated configuration management
Desired experience with identity/authentication frameworks for any of OAuth, SAML, OpenID
Desired experience with large scale data management using Hadoop, Cassandra or similar leading technologies.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills