Java Architect

Role: Java Architect
Location: Chicago, IL (hybrid)  
Type: Contract  

*Someone who can do Development and design and handle a team of 7-8 members

Job Description:
- Build technical strategy for broad or complex requirements with insightful and forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems.  
- Participate in the strategic development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects and programs.
- Drive all aspects of technical architecture, design, prototyping and implementation in support of both product needs as well as overall technology strategy.
- Provide leadership and technical expertise in support of building a technical plan and backlog of stories, and then follow through on execution of design and build process through to production delivery.
- Guide a broad functional area and lead efforts through the functional team members along with the team’s overall planning.
- Represent engineering in cross-functional team sessions and able to present sound and thoughtful arguments to persuade others. Adapts to the situation and can draw from a range of strategies to influence people in a way that results in agreement or behavior change.
- Collaborate and partner with product managers, designers, and other engineering groups to conceptualize and build new features and create product descriptions.
- Actively own features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.

For Cloud Focus Only:
- Lead infrastructure-as-code projects, designing APIs and building tools to be used by engineering teams for reliable and repeatable cloud deployments.
- Implement abstractions to simplify the complexities of cloud providers (AWS), open-source technologies (Kubernetes), and internal EWS infrastructure.
- Expertise in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and continuous deployment pipelines.