Technical Architect - Java - eCommerce Applications

Role & Responsibilities:

- Work closely with managers, other architects, product managers to architect technology solutions to meet the business and technology vision.

- Understand complex problems easily and come up with simple, practical, and maintainable solutions.

- Improve technology agility using Service Oriented Architecture, Micro services, Service orchestrationetc.

- Explore opportunities to refine the current architecture. Converting existing monolithic applications into micro service architectures, build new micro services using industry standard open source frameworks, building reusable services and components that can be used across geographical locations.

- Provide hands on expert level assistance to developers on technical issues.Assist with the development of frameworks, standards, policies, principles and procedures that guide technology decisions and maximize reuse of technology.

- Suggest alternative technical solutions to meet business requirements efficiently with greater reusability and long term vision.

- Promote and coordinates technical knowledge harvesting within the organization. Prepare and maintain architecture documentation and other living documents that reflect architecture vision

- Define, communicate and enforce design/coding standards. Facilitate technical design reviews, ensuring adherence to architectural standards, and consistency across organizational and design boundaries.

- Keep abreast of new technologies and use them to solve the business problems effectively

- Develop the logical and technical architecture for project and platform initiatives, and collaborates with project teams to realize them.

- Identify necessary non-functional requirements (performance, security, reusability, and operational concerns) and participate in the development of conceptual architecture.

- Evaluate technology, security, performance, availability, and interoperability requirements and produce high level design deliverables that enable development teams to produce products that are flexible, scalable, and secure.

Skills & Qualifications

Over all experience required: 9 - 12 yrs

- Minimum of 5 years of experience as an architect in building complex, highly scalable, high volume, low latency applications. Experience in architecting/developing eCommerce applications.

- Experience with modern web frameworks and template engines like ReactJS, NodeJS, backbone, angular, mustache, handlebars, underscore and other related Javascript libraries.

- Extensive experience building services using Java J2EE, Spring etc.

- Experience in developing and designing applications and web services in a Service Oriented Architecture, including the use of RESTful services and API gateways.

- Experience/Familiarity with RDBMS and NoSQL technologies.

- Strong aptitude for writing efficient, extensible and readable code.

- Experience in distributed/scalable systems. Ability to design high performance applications/services.

- Good knowledge on devops tools and processes.

- Experience in Agile Methodology.

- Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills.

- Ability to work effectively with a diverse range of people with a variety of skills, disciplines, experience, and personalities.

- Strong leadership and negotiation skills with business and technical groups.

- Experience in conducting POCs using emerging technologies.

- Experience in Spring boot, Spring cloud, Netflix Zuul, API gateway, Drools, Apache Kafka etc.

Good to have:

- Exposure to container orchestration technologies.

- Experience in cloud based technologies.

- Full stack development experience.