Technical Architect - Technology Firm

Key Accountability:

- Design and maintain System Architecture that is scalable, stable and performant.

- Ensure that proposed and existing solution architectures are aligned with organisational goals and objectives

- Document and Review System Architecture.

- Ensuring that all architectural documents are maintained in the most current state

- Define and maintain standards in system design and documentation

Technical Competencies:

- Strong analytical and problem solving skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into practical applications and operational solutions.

- Demonstrated ability to produce requirement artefacts: Business Requirements, Functional Specifications, data flow diagrams, UML modelling techniques, interface designs, test plans and test cases

- Design ESB architecture (Should be well versed with IBM Stack) with high availability, scalability, error handling / exception processing, performance and recovery capability.

- Expertise in open source frame works and development

- Experience with web servers, service oriented architectures, web services (both ReST and SOAP), security practices, database technologies.

- Comprehensive understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), continuous integration, and agile software development methodologies

Technical skill set:

- Application /Web servers/Http Server - WAS, Web logic, Tomcat, Nginix

- Integration - IIB, WebSphere Message broker, WebSphere MQ.

- Web Security - OWASP, Web Mobile App, AES, RSA, Session token

- API's - REST, SOAP, Java, WSDL, API Connect Soap UI.

- Frameworks/IDES - Eclipse, JDK, Spring

- Micro services - Spring Boot, Docker, Swarm, Java EE, WAS.

- Databases - MSSQL, DB2, Oracle.