JAVA SRE Architect

Job Description

Has the knowledge and expertise of supporting production environments, and associated maintenance, change, control, incident and problem management.

Has demonstrated expertise in application/infrastructure/software design across multiple technologies. Can identify opportunities for platform improvements.

Has demonstrated ability to design and develop significant components within an application. Designs architecture and drives solutions using established design patterns and principles.

Ensures design reviews, code reviews and compliance with bank standards for information security and infrastructure standards.

Ability to perform or support continuous integration and deployment activities with understanding of DevOps and observability.

Leads adoption of emerging technologies for On-prem, Cloud, and Hybrid architectures.

Provides technical guidance for platform engineers and collaborates with solution architects to ensure consistent design across platform components.

Serves as a fully seasoned/proficient technical resource able to coordinate dependencies across platform teams and teams working on business capabilities. Facilitates collaboration within and across teams. Go-to person for consultation from others.

Makes recommendations and ensures platform easily supports NFRs across multiple LOB initiatives and anticipated growth over 5+ years.

Demonstrates the ability to identify more complex problems that cross several infrastructure domains and gather data and insights from others. Demonstrates the ability to assess issues identified by others and update the mental model of software and infrastructure services.

Working knowledge of products, services, business flows and understanding of financial context in which technology and operating principles are used.

Must have 15 20 years of experience.

Primary Skills

Java, Spring, XML, SOA, Oracle DB, WLI, Mule, JBoss, Tomcat, IBM MQ, Kafka, Cucumber, Unix, DevOps, CI-CD tooling, OpenShift, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana or Prometheus, CloudWatch

Advanced knowledge of networking (Firewalls, DNS, Load Balancing, Proxies, etc.)

Advanced understanding of Linux & Windows operating systems including shell scripting

Onsite Required Skills

20+ years experience in building and maintaining applications with focus on performance, observability, scalability, security, and reliability

7+ years experience overseeing enterprise-grade platform solutions

Experience in a highly Agile continuous integration and continuous deployment environment, preferably within a financial domain

Strong experience in Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Mule, Web Services, Kafka, SQL & PL/SQL (Oracle)

Strong knowledge of XML, JSON and its usage within API and Microservice implementations at scale

Significant expertise in cloud-native deployment using OpenShift, Kubernetes or any container platform

Experience maintaining on-premise environments, containerized applications, and hybrid cloud solutions

Experience using leading app servers and integration technologies like Mule ESB, AnyPoint Platform, MQ, Kafka

Experience in Splunk, Dynatrace or AppDynamics (APM tools)

Proven ability to leverage knowledge of infrastructure automation, DevOps, cloud technologies and platform architecture to build resilient, scalable, and maintainable solutions

Experience implementing best practices, optimizing performance, ensuring compliance with security standards, and providing leadership to the engineering team

Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to dive into low-level technical details and explain concepts at a high level to a non-technical audience