Application Architect

Title: Application Architect

Location: Berkley Heights, NJ

Roles and Responsibilities:

• 12+ years of experience in design and development of Integration, Distributed, BigData, transformation solution
• Experience with 8+ years as a Technical Architect for microservices applications
• 8+ years experience in design, implement and maintain Microservice, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, RESTful services, Kafka, Swagger, Docker, Kubernetes technologies
• 5+ years of experience in transforming credit card, payment or banking industry
• Must possess experience working on logging frameworks like Splunk or ELK (ElasticSearch Logstash and Kibana)
• Strategize, Design data architecture for specific business problems or enterprise, align it to enterprise-wide standards and principles.
• Design and implementation of strategy, directing the evaluation of strategies and policies to ensure business requirements are being met.
• Translate and accurately communicate across technical and non-technical stakeholders as well as facilitate discussions within a multidisciplinary team, with potentially difficult dynamics.
• Data profiling, source / target system analysis and present clear insights on data.
• Expert in Data Architecture, Data Lakes, DWs, Big Data platforms & ETL / data pipelines (streaming, batch etc.)
• Must possess good experience in architecting enterprise systems using industry-standard design patterns, practices and cloud strategies.
• Must have played or playing the role of solution or enterprise architect with proven experience in envisioning, architecting & designing cloud, high volume, performant solutions for the enterprise
• Must possess ability to suggest and implement architectural, scalability, performance and process improvements ideas
• Must have good understanding of Continuous Improvement (CI) and Continuous Deployment processes.
• Must possess good experience in architecting applications on containers, micro-services, API orchestration with their eventual deployment on cloud.
• Exposure in any of the cloud solution architecture like Google Cloud Platform/AWS /Microsoft Azure will be an added benefit
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with all stakeholders like Developers, business analysts, and business Stakeholders.
• Experience working with multi-vendor, multi-culture, distributed offshore and onshore development teams in dynamic and complex environment
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills

Behavioral Skills:

• Self-starter and experienced in leading the junior resources
• Hand-on architect with ability to implement and validate the solution
• Good Communication skills
• Flexible to rotational shifts, 5 days WFO
• Team Player
• Ability to work in a changing environment
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to work independently or within a team
• Manage day-to-day challenges and communicate developmental risks with the technical team

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Proficiency in business process modeling and documentation tools.
• Familiarity with automation technologies and tools, such as robotic process automation (RPA) and workflow automation platforms.
• Product implementation experience is preferred