Senior Software Architect

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Independently design and develop effective and efficient end to end solutions for complex business problems.
• Lead and work with the engineering team/s on technical feasibility analysis for the projects.
• Responsible for non-functional quality measures including performance, scalability, availability, reliability, maintainability and security.
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to understand complex and ambiguous business requirements and translate them into robust technical solutions.
• Take proactive role in project scoping, planning and design to drive successful solution delivery.
• Research new technologies, software, and tools and provide recommendations and/or prototypes.
• Produce technical documentation relating to application architecture, design steps, integration processes and testing procedures relating to each product developed. 
• Define best practices, patterns and guidelines in coding and design 
• Review design and code to ensure its compliance with the best practices and coding standards.
• Provide technical mentoring, guidance and consultation to other architects and engineering teams to ensure the successful execution of software projects.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align and onboard them on the architectural vision.
• Administer training throughout various phases of the development cycle .
• Work with legacy code to improve the quality, modernize and/or to integrate with third party systems .

Job Qualifications:

• Expertise with hands-on experience in design and development of web-based enterprise software systems.
• Proficient knowledge of cloud design patterns.
• Prior experience in Azure cloud or other major public cloud provider technologies, EventHubs, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker and containers as a plus. 
• Strong technical skills in variety of Java technologies including but not limited to: Core Java, JavaEE, Spring, JMS, AMQP, SOAP/RESTful web services, Maven, Tomcat, JS, HTML5.
• Proven skills in designing API, Front end components, re-usable frameworks and libraries.
• Solid experience with Object-Oriented principles, Design Patterns, and Architectural Patterns.
• Strong experience with relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL), familiar or experience with NoSQL databases is a plus.
• Strong problem solving and creative thinking skills. 
• Experience in application performance monitoring and tuning .
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to communicate design rationale and build consensus. 
• Ability to work both independently and in a team environment.