Software Architect

The Software Architect primarily serves as a Technical Expert establishing technical direction/roadmap for all enterprise Software products, and will monitor/guide/coach the Development team in all the phases of implementation (design, development, testing, documentation, demo, etc.).

• Understands the business requirements from the Product Management/Customer, converts them into end-to-end functional specifications and technical design/architecture.
• Documents both high level and low-level design, based on the requirements from Product Management/Customer. This may be either the specification for an incremental functional enhancement, or a complete functional specification of a new component.
• Provides estimations of the effort needed for the implementation of the functional specification.
• Serves as the Technical Expert establishing technical directions/roadmap for the product, explains it to the development team and monitor/guide/coach the team in all the phases of implementation (design, development, documentation, demo, etc.)
• Ensures that the design and implementation fulfil the business requirements, and also ensures that non-functional requirements (e.g. performance, scalability, extensibility, customization capabilities, usability etc.) are met in a future-proof manner. This includes the review of the design documents for all layers of the software (e.g. Database, Application, API, UI)
• Ensures all the layers of the product adheres to the latest Security recommendations.
• Ensures that QA artifacts cover the requested functionality by reviewing test cases/scenarios.
• Takes technical responsibility of the product/domain (functional or non-functional); this implies that he/she:
  • Creates and maintains a specification of the architecture of that product/domain.
  • Ensures that the architecture and his domain of responsibility fits into and contributes to a healthy, solid, state of the art architecture of the end-to-end system.
• Understands and complies to the software development process (focus on Agile)

• B.S. in Computer Science or a related degree (M.S. preferred, PhD desired)
• 10+ years of experience in Service-Oriented, Web-based, Java EE software architecture and development with at least 2+ years of experience as an Architect.
• Proficient in latest software architecture and design concepts/principles, including design patterns (see GoF).
• Proficient in using Unified Modelling Language (UML) for designing the artifacts of software systems.
• Expertise in application integration patterns and concepts, service-oriented architectures (SOA) and enterprise middleware technologies such as ESB.
• Expertise in the implementation of multi-layer architectures:
  • Application layer using Java/J2EE, Multi-threading, Spring, JPA, JDBC, Hibernate, Jquery, CXF, ActiveMQ and API technologies (Web Services SOAP and REST, JMS, XML/XSD), Microservices, caching technologies (like Ehcache), Messaging (JMS, ActiveMQ)
  • Database (Oracle, SQL)
  • Web rich UI (Java, Javascript, Javascript libraries, Angular JS, GWT/GXT, Spring MVC, HTML5, DOJO, JQuery)
  • Hands-on experience in deployment and troubleshooting Application Servers, such as, Weblogic, WebSphere, Jboss.
  • Hands-on experience in the build tools, Ant/Maven, along with the CI/CD pipeline using SVN/GIT/Gerrit, Jenkins/Bamboo.
  • Familiarity with Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) architecture.
• Expertise in architectural patterns and design of non-functional concerns, e.g. high availability, clustering, scalability (up/down, out/in), backward compatibility of interfaces, techniques to allow product customizations
• Experience with Unix / Linux command line commands and tools.
• Experience using tools, such as Jira, Confluence, Wiki, TFS.

• Experience in Container technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes will be an advantage.
• Experience in any of the cloud platforms, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, AWS.
• Experience in NoSQL database such as Cassandra.