Overview
On Site
Depends on Experience
Full Time
Skills
Java
Microservice
Datadog
AWS
Kafka
Job Details
Hi ,
We are Photon, one of the world's largest Digital Platform Engineering companies providing a combination of Strategy Consulting, Creative Design and Technology Services to a wide range of customers. We work with 40% of the Fortune 100 companies. I found your profile interesting and wanted to chat with you about a role in one of our programs as a "Solution Architect"
Designation: Solution Architect
Location: Dallas, TX
Job Type: Fulltime
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities:
Solution Design & Architecture:
Design and architect end-to-end solutions for complex business problems within the financial and investment sector, leveraging Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Angular, Oracle, Snowflake, Kafka, and cloud platforms (AWS EKS, S3).
Apply deep understanding and practical application of Enterprise, Microservices, and Distributed architecture design patterns to create robust, scalable, secure, and maintainable systems.
Develop and document comprehensive architectural artifacts, including solution blueprints, high-level and low-level designs, data flow diagrams, and technology recommendations.
Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, security policies, and long-term technology roadmaps.
Technical Leadership & Strategy:
Provide technical leadership and guidance throughout the software development lifecycle.
Define and implement robust strategies for application performance, scalability, high availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery.
Lead architectural reviews, design sessions, and technical discussions, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
Evaluate emerging technologies and propose their adoption where they offer significant advantages.
Collaboration & Communication:
Partner effectively with business stakeholders, product managers, and analysts to gather requirements, understand business drivers, and define solution scope.
Possess excellent communication and verbal skills to articulate complex technical concepts, architectural decisions, and trade-offs clearly to both technical (developers, enterprise architects) and non-technical audiences (business partners).
Act as a key liaison between business units, development teams, infrastructure teams, and security teams.
Observability & Governance:
Define and implement comprehensive observability strategies, including defining Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), key performance metrics, logging, and tracing using tools like Datadog.
Establish and contribute to monitoring, alerting, and operational governance models to ensure system health and stability.
Technology Implementation Guidance:
Provide expertise and guidance on implementing authentication and authorization solutions, particularly leveraging Azure AD.
Guide teams on best practices for containerization using Docker and orchestration with AWS EKS.
Advise on optimal use of AWS cloud services (EKS, S3, etc.) and data platforms (Oracle, Snowflake, Kafka) within the solution context.
Required Qualifications:
Education: Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
Experience: Minimum of 15 years of progressive experience in software development, design, and architecture.
Domain Expertise: Significant experience (ideally 5+ years) architecting solutions specifically within the Financial and Investment services domain (e.g., trading, portfolio management, risk, compliance, wealth management).
Technical Skills:
Strong hands-on experience with Java and frameworks like Spring Boot.
Proven expertise in designing and implementing Microservices architectures.
Experience with frontend technologies, specifically Angular.
In-depth knowledge and practical experience with AWS cloud services (specifically EKS, S3, compute, networking, security).
Experience implementing authentication/authorization solutions using Azure AD.
Strong understanding of relational databases (Oracle) and cloud data warehousing (Snowflake).
Experience with containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS).
Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging queues (Kafka).
Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools (Datadog).
Thanks & Regards
Shalini. D
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