Principal Application Architect

• Work with the project teams to recommend the architecture approach for applications and define in an increasing level of detail as the project progresses.
• Lead design review process and ensure recommendations made are understood by recipients and are monitored during the project life cycle.
• Research, analyze and recommend new technologies, frameworks, processes, and tools to further company’s technology architecture.
• Be able to explain and educate complex solutions and integrations in a clear and articulate manner, using illustrative techniques (e.g., UML diagrams) as necessary.
• Develop Proof of Concepts that may include, analysis of problem, finding an optimal solution, design, development, and documentation.
• Contribute to the troubleshooting of difficult application production issues including performance tuning, memory management, database or other environment and architecture related issues.
• Provide thought leadership by educating and sharing best practices, building deep relationships with organization leaders, conducting brown bag sessions, mentoring junior team members, and writing white papers.
• Collaborate with various company teams to define application standards, conventions, and best practices.
• Report and escalate to senior management as needed.
• Execute other job duties as assigned.

• Critical thinking ability to analyze and solve complex problems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and can communicate effectively at all levels - with the team, peers and with senior management of the company.
• Comfortable in situations that are ambiguous and can juggle between multiple tasks and rapidly changing priorities.

And these qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in technology related field.
• Ten (10) years of experience in relevant software and IT related projects.
• Four (4) years of experience performing as a full-time architect.
• Possess a high degree of technical expertise with foundational architectural principles in building Java and cloud based distributed systems.
• Expertise in application development using the following technologies:
• Java EE
• Spring boot
• Application servers (e.g. Tomcat, JBoss)
• Messaging (e.g. Active MQ, JBoss messaging)
• Database technologies (RDBMS and NoSQL DBs)
• Linux/Unix
• Cloud computing (AWS experience preferred)
• Excellent grasp of application security concerns and remediation techniques.
• Knowledge of networking, infrastructure, and storage components.
• Well-rounded technical background in current web and micro-service technologies.
• Experience working with business users in defining processes and translating those to available solutions.
• This is a hybrid position

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