Java Microservices Solution Architect

Location              : Plano, TX

Duration:12 months

 Rates:$85/hr on a W2 all incl

Responsibilities:

• Contribute towards the overall Enterprise Architecture strategic plan by establishing, developing, and/or promoting standards based architecture, frameworks and guidelines.
• Analyze complex business and technical problems related to the implementation of new technology and/or the customization of existing technologies.
• Partner with other technology teams to work with business executives and end users to conceptualize new application projects, recommend technologies and implementation strategies. Then architect/design for requirements of the project within financial and timeline guidelines.
• Understand the changing business needs of the organization/projects and recommend viable strategies for the future.
• Author and/or review architecture/design and other technical documents ensuring high quality deliverables and systems development across tech stacks and applications teams.
• Review code and technical approaches for problem solving to ensure functional and non-functional requirements are met in an effective and high quality manner.
• Provide guidance and mentor technical teams across multiple architecture styles and technologies to ensure high quality design/implementation, re-use of enterprise/common patterns, improve code quality and testability/maintainability.
• Scrutinize project effort estimations from development teams and optimize costs utilizing effective software engineering practices and aligning architecture/implementation efforts across multiple teams.
• Lead matrixed / cross-functional teams and development teams to complete assigned projects on-time and within budget with high quality deliverables that can be re-used by other teams and projects.
• Hands-on development creating proof of concepts and maintaining small development projects.
• Help ensure high quality software delivery by providing guidance on testing strategy, providing technical consultation to plan/design performance testing and profiling of application, and providing feedback/guidance for tuning performance and other non-functional elements of the application.

• Demonstrable ability to self-manage time and priorities in a complex multi-team matrix environment while maintaining high-quality deliverables for oneself as well as your tech teams
• Demonstrable ability to communicate in verbal/written and diagrams formats to technical and non-technical audiences of varying skillset and seniority
• 8+ years of experience in multi-tier Web and/or Mobile Application architecture
• Multi-year / multi-project experience in following areas:
• Public/Customer facing high volume transactional web applications – custom app or ASP/SaaS
• Hands-on architecture/design for web sites that are highly scalable and built in large enterprise environments
• Hands-on architecture/design of cloud-native applications built on Amazon AWS platform
• Back-end technologies: Java EE and Spring framework and Spring Boot framework
• Front-end technologies: Angular 4, Bootstrap, D3, NVD3
• Web Services/ESB/Integration technologies including SOAP and REST based services
• More than one Application Servers such as JBoss, Weblogic and Tomcat
• Database technologies: Hibernate and JPA; NoSQL as well as SQL DBs and Big Data/Solr
• Code Quality systems: SonarQube, PMD, FindBugs, CheckStyle, JSLint
• Agile/Scrum, Continuous Integration and Test Driven development using JUnit
• (a Plus) Experience in migrating on-prem technologies/platforms to Amazon AWS platform
• (a Plus) Experience in more than one IT discipline such as web/mobile application architecture/design, middleware/integration architecture/design within/across enterprises, information security architecture/design, and database architecture/design
• (a Plus) Experience in Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket, Open Source frameworks, Monitoring services (such as AppDynamics) Content Management platforms (especially Documentum), Containerization (using Docker) and integration with COTS products and/or legacy technologies
• (a Plus) Experience in .NET platform (C#, WCF, etc.)