Lead Software Architect

• About Maersk

  A.P. Moller - Maersk is a global logistics company whose purpose is “Improving life for all by integrating the world”. We are committed to an industry-defining digital transformation that will revolutionize global trade, and this will require a team that both understands and can lead the way in world class service and operations.  Do you see yourself enjoying lots of opportunities to collaborate with colleagues around the globe, expanding your skills in an atmosphere that prioritizes employee growth and being a part of an inspiring work environment? Then join us as we reinvent the future of integrated logistics.  

  We provide a distinctive chance to contribute to the development of a technology-driven organization and be part of a worldwide IT transformation initiative, which will define the future business model for this extensive global entity.

  The role of the Lead Architect

  As a Lead Platform Architect in our Maersk Technology Team, you will demonstrate the following characteristics:

  Key Responsibilities

• Develop complex, highly available, distributed, cloud-native products, and maintain a high level of quality.
• Engineer highly resilient systems that are secure, scalable, and always available.
• Direct the necessary design or technical evaluations for the product and have expertise in utilizing open-source libraries.
• Lead design and architectural activities with the major focus on scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Lead and mentor in design and code reviews to enhance user experience, performance, scalability, ease of maintenance, and potential for future growth.
• Lead the adoption of new technologies and design practices to enhance product usability.
• Possess relevant DevOps expertise to establish projects from scratch or assist with existing configurations, including tools and strategies such as branching and reviewing.
• Provide technical assistance during cut-over activities, along with investigating and solving production issues.
• Provide continuous improvement suggestions for internal code frameworks, best practices, and guidelines.
• Have deep conviction and well-reasoned views on RESTful API design, encompassing API versioning, backward compatibility, authentication, retries, and rate limiting.
• Push the envelope in adopting new technologies, best design practices to ensure our products are the best in usability.
• Actively contribute to team improvements, cross-team knowledge-sharing communities, and CoE forums.
• Advise Product Owners to identify and manage risks, debt, issues, and opportunities for the technical improvement.
• Provide mentorship to other architects, senior engineers with the right technical assistance where needed.
• Navigate through ambiguities and deliver quickly.
• Act as a technical leader for a globally distributed team, collaborating effectively.

• Key Technical Skills

• Java programming : with deep knowledge on oops concepts , design patterns, and advanced features like concurrency, multithreading, and performance optimization
• Spring Framework: Mastery of Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data, and other Spring modules for building enterprise applications efficiently. •
• Front-End Technologies: Strong understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and popular frameworks like React or Angular for building user interfaces
• Microservices Architecture: Understanding of microservices principles and experience in designing and building microservices-based applications.
• Data Architecture: Proficiency in data modeling, database design, and data management strategies.
• Databases: Proficiency in relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cosmos) for data modeling and management.
• Security: Strong knowledge of security best practices, including authentication, authorization, encryption, and vulnerability assessment.
• Web Services: Expertise in RESTful API design, development, and consumption, along with experience in SOAP-based web services.  
• Cloud Platforms: Knowledge of cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) in general and experience & specilization on Microsoft Azure App services, Azure Cloud environments.
• Experience with API Gateways and integrations (Apigee, Akana, Akamai) 
• Build effective unit and integration test cases using JUnit, Mockito
• Containerised Deployment – Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift, AWS ECS
• Logging Stack – Elasticsearch, splunk, kibana
• Monitoring Tool - Prometheus, Alert manager, Grafana
• DevOps: Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/ CD pipelines, and tools like Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes for efficient software delivery
• Performance Optimization: Ability to identify performance bottlenecks and implement optimization techniques
• Desirable: Experience in developing distributed service architecture , Hexagonal architecture & Experience in using BDD and TDD approaches and tooling.

• Key Business Skills 

• Languages: Proficient in English and Portuguese
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills 
• Ability to translate between technical language and business language, and communicate to different target groups 
• Ability to understand complex design 
• Possessing the ability to balance and find compromises between opposing forces and opinions, within the development team 

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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