Job Title: Technical Architect
Job ID: 37929
Location: Plano, TX 75075
Duration: 12+ Months with possible extensions
Interview Process: Phone/WebEx
Additional Sites: Alpharetta, GA 30005 and Bothell, WA 98011
Required Skills:
Technical Architect:
RESTful API/ Microservices:
CI/CD (GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, or Sonar):
Agile/Scrum/Kanban:
eCommerce:
Cloud technologies ( AWS, Azure, OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, Cassandra, Akamai, Ansible, Chef or Terraform) (Preferred):
Top 5 Skills / Additional Job Posting Description Details *
5+ years of overall IT Industry experience (architecture, design, development, testing)
*** 2+ years of architecture experience in building scalable and optimal performing eCommerce applications
*** ( Required industry experience) Proven track record in setting and defining architectural solutions and designs aligned with target architecture; RESTful API development, microservices development, solid understanding of design impacts to performance, security, resiliency, and maintainability
2+ years of experience in build and CI/CD technologies: GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, or Sonar
Preferred experience in cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, Cassandra, Akamai, Ansible, Chef or Terraform
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to present complex technical information in a clear manner to peers, developers, and senior leaders
Experience working within Agile/Scrum/Kanban.
Responsibilities and Day-to-Day View
Collaborate with critical stakeholders to understand business needs, priority, and the quality of services to be created or enhanced. Drive alignment between application team implementation and solution to be compliant with Target State Architecture. Responsible for discovering and identifying any bottleneck gaps such as manual flows that can hinder the services or impact cycle time or cost and resolve them. Provide architectural governance and technical direction for the solution deployment strategy at the Product team level and architectural alignment across product teams. This includes:
• Designing, documenting, and sharing the architectural vision across organizations
• Reviewing defined requirements of technical business analyst to ensure architecture is done according to standards / best practices
• Promoting adaptive design and engineering practices, ensure that common technology, design practices, and infrastructure are used and facilitate the reuse of code, components, and proven patterns; influence common modeling, design, and coding practices
• Collaboratively defining and integrating strategic technical roadmaps aligning to product roadmaps
• Monitoring the performance of architectural systems to ensure fluid interaction between components
• Laying out upgrade paths to architectural systems and software life cycle to ensure improved processes
• Defining Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) for common frameworks, libraries, resiliency, maintainability, automation, performance, logging/debugging, metrics, security, and other common areas of the platform and ensuring solutions align with established NFRs
Ensure applications and services are leveraging building blocks whenever possible. Supports integrated solutions between legacy and target state solutions.
Roles & Responsibilities:
1) Develops detailed functional design and prototypes (e.g., Oracle solution components, YODA).
2) Work with cross-functional teams to design and implement business requirements.
3) Work to resolve application issues, designing and implementing system enhancements, and in documenting new user requirements.
4) Provide input for production related issues, planning, design, and execution of data conversion activities.
5) Act as a liaison between IT and the internal business customer.
6) Translate business objectives and process into clear definition of IT requirements, culminating in successful delivery.