Job Description :
Title: Sr. Java Architect/Solution Architect
Location: Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Duration: Long term
Start date: Immediate
Description:
Mandatory skills: Java, Spring, Architecture, Design Patterns, Agile
Required Technical & Leadership Skill Sets:
BS degree or higher in Computer Science with a minimum of 7+ years of relevant, broad engineering experience is required.
Collaborate with technical product owners, delivery teams to build roadmaps which support the business needs of the customers.
Influence the design focus of agile teams to help reduce tech debt, adopt recognized best practices to reduce total cost of systems.
Experience in running design sessions to decisions, often engaging in deep-dive analysis with fellow architects and engineers.
Experience in governance procedures, policies and guidelines to ensure that project initiatives comply with the overall architecture direction.
Experience in evaluating vendors, products and emerging industry trends
Possess expert knowledge in Performance, Scalability, Security, Enterprise System Architecture, and Engineering best practices.
Proven track record of successfully architecting large-scale high-available systems using agile DevOps based software development life cycle.
Hands on collaboration with Agile development teams - pair frequently with engineers on code development and understand the practical constraints, challenges and limitations of architecture decisions.
Experience in introducing tools and techniques to identify various types of issues in production using logs and other metrics derived from enterprise monitoring applications.
Outstanding ability to provide guidance, insight and day-to-day support for agile development teams. Remain abreast of industry trends and best practices and communicate these trends and practices to the engineering organization.
Personal Skills:
Strong experience working with multi-site development teams.
Strong Communication skills (verbal and written) with an ability to work in a highly collaborative, multi-country/time zone environment.
Good organizational skills with the ability to track and prioritize numerous tasks.
Proactive personality with a proven track record of following through and delivering on responsibilities.
Highly adaptive and capable of being an individual contributor and working as part of an extended team.
That’s the description I got from client manager.
However, just ignore that and focus on followings:
This is a solution architect role, not a developer role
The architect does not need to be hands on with Java coding
Come from Java background
Strong understanding of Architecture and Design Patterns
Experience in building scalable applications in Java using AWS infrastructure
Strong understanding of AWS services like EC2, S3, certain APIs, etc.
Java: Thread concurrency, Spring AOP, Spring boot (test case), Hibernate relationship (1to1, m2m)
Excellent articulation skills