JAVA Architect

Description

Job description Position Summary / Responsibilities Solution approach, Design documentation, Agile coaching (User Story Development), performance analysis approach. Provides competent leadership, and highly specialized and technical guidance to complex solutions architecture challenges, including but not limited to, the evaluation of technologies, including Java and J2EE, software including COTS, products, custom and reusable components, internal systems, data exchange tools, and application integration methodologies. Provides expert advice on industry and solution trends to customers in analyzing and planning their current and future IT needs. Simultaneously plans, manages, and provides technical oversight for solutions architecture activities. Gathers customers business requirements, translating those requirements into costeffective solution strategies, frameworks and architectures; guides the implementation of these solutions to deliver high quality results to meet or exceed customer expectations in a timely manner. Coordinates with the Program Manager to ensure problem resolution and customer satisfaction. Experience in leading teams, interfacing with senior level clients, architecting complex solutions using open source tools.SKILLS This is a general JEE/SOA architect for JEEbased stack that consumes SQLbased data (Oracle/MySQL) and API REST/JSON, Design Patterns, written skills. Broad Understanding of a modern webapplication and best practices around each layer User Interface (responsive applications), business services (REST, SOAP), data taxonomies and underlying support (RDBMD, NoSQL). Ability to fit solution into broader enterprise context including security, single sign on, high availability, scalability, ServiceOriented/API governance, containers including virtualization and microservices. The environment must be Java/JEE ideally with Open Sourcebased solutions, specifically Redhat/Apache Tomcat. While the emphasis is on application design, including frameworks for OR/M such as iBatis or Hibernate, Spring, there is also an enterprise component which includes knowledge of RBAC, LDAP, SSO. Must have a strong understanding of DevOps principles with experience in each of the DevOps areas of practice (Source Control Subversions, Build Maven, Test/Automated Test JUnit, Grinder, SOAPUI, JMeter, knowledge of environment Puppet a plus but not required. Strong ability to write technical documents, support requirements decomposition, coordinate working POCs and evolve to deployable code, ability to present designs to peers and Product Owner for approval, Deep understanding of all lifecycle components (code, test, deploy), DevOps, environments.