Technical Architect

Technical Architect Auburn Hills, Michigan 48326 (Hybrid - 3 days onsite per week) 6+ Months

Education and Years of Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years experience in advanced technologies including a minimum of 5+ years as a technical architect
• Minimum 7 years experience in development including a minimum of 3+ years leading development resources

Required and Desired Skills/Certifications:

• Solid experience in Springboot, Spring framework, J2EE technologies, event driven architecture and systems integration
• Solid experience in modelling architecture and design with expertise of at least one of the frameworks (C4 model, UML, Archimate and Arc42 etc.)
• Strong experience in designing and implementing Restful APIs using Spring Framework/Spring Boot.
• Strong experience architecting and designing modern business facing and consumer facing web applications including Single Page Applications using responsive design concept with Angular or React etc.
• Solid experience in cloud based application design, development and API driven systems integration
• Experience with Continuous Integration Tools (SVN/Github/Maven/Jenkins/JIRA)
• Experience with cloud native application design and development with main stream platforms and technologies
• Hands on experience with cloud technologies including AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Openshift, Kubernetes, ELK, Kafka, Kong etc.
• Experience with IBM Security Access Manager, IBM Integration Bus, IBM WebSphere, IBM API Connect and Data power
• Security architecture design (Identity management, Authentication and Authorization framework, SAML, OIDC/OAuth2, mTLS, secret and certificate management etc.)
• Experience with Application Performance Management and Web Site Performance Monitoring tools.
• Experience with application usage analytics and dashboard reporting
• Good knowledge with NoSQL concepts and products
• Deep understanding with hands-on experience on modern security frameworks and specifications (Oauth2, OIDC, 2FA etc).
• Understanding and hands-on experience of GraphQL based API development with Apollo or similar products
• Thorough understanding and experience of event driven architecture, micro services, distributed architecture and design patterns
• Experience dealing with financial system integrations, transaction management etc
• Through understanding and hands-on experience with implementing robust logging and tracing implementation for end to end systems traceability
• Knowledge and understanding of CI/CD process and tools (like Jenkins)
• Solid experience with code quality and coverage tools like Sonarqube.
• Extensive experience in architecting consumer facing web applications which is adaptable to dynamic and fast changing business needs
• Willing and ready to get hands on code development with dev team for developing and troubleshooting, doing quick proof of concepts for exploring new solutions, products etc.
• Experienced in working with business/product team to discuss, analyze, understand and negotiate business requirements, being able to explain to business about the technical considerations and associated implications on the user journey/experience/requirements.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Experience in the concepts and methodologies of enterprise architecture
• Deep knowledge of information technologies (Database, Business Intelligence, Infrastructure, Networks, Web & Integration software)
• Broad understanding of technologies and has experience in implementation methodologies, software development life cycle process, and project management
• Excellent planning and organization, project management and time management skills (particularly in delivery effort estimation and project scheduling)
• Strong problem solving and negotiation abilities
• Ability to inform, educate and influence managers and employees to support goals and initiatives
• Exceptional written, verbal and presentation skills are necessary to effectively convey goals and initiatives to team and management
• Knowledge of the vendor market and possess existing relationships
• Experience with web application, web service and mobile application architecture and design
• Strong API and data integration background
• Detail design background based on technologies listed under technical experience
• Strong Automotive OEM experience
• Extensive background in designing architectural solutions for large complex programs which results in representation in front of Architecture Review Board (e.g. logical & physical architectures, data classifications/protections, etc.) Extensive background in leading large and complex development initiatives
• Proven technical leadership experience, leading application detailed design and development (apply proper design patterns and adhere to VWGoA architecture and design principles, document design, review design by vendors, support QA)
• Proven experience leading development teams (design-implementation, code review for quality and security, development mentor technical teams)
• Experience leading technical troubleshooting including bug fix remediation and performance tuning
• Integrate comprehensive security principals into all phases of design and architecture

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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position's starting pay is: $60.00/hr.