Solution Architect - Java

About the Job
We are looking for a Solution Architect responsible for building Java applications. This includes developing complex back-end services and their client-end counterparts for both desktop and mobile platforms. Your primary responsibility will be to design and develop these applications and coordinate with the team working on different infrastructure layers. Thus, a commitment to collaborative problem-solving, sophisticated design, and product quality is essential.

Responsibilities

• Senior professional with 10-12 years of experience.
• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code.
• Ensure optimal performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, devising solutions to these problems.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation.
• Manage the team and successfully deliver projects.

Skills

• Working experience in an agile software development environment with a solid understanding of the principles of agile architecture.
• Strong collaborative mindset for collective decentralized decision-making.
• Demonstrate strong technical skills with a deep understanding of modern architectural styles and practices such as Microservices, Containers, AWS Cloud (good to have Azure), APIs, Continuous Delivery, Event-driven architecture, and Evolutionary architecture, along with a passion for hands-on coding.
• Strong foundational knowledge of software architecture concepts, patterns, principles, and quality attributes.
• Proven leadership skills with a proactive, positive, and growth mindset; ability to foster and motivate programmers for delivering with craftsmanship.
• Good personal skills to continuously engage and communicate with an egoless, empathetic mindset.
• Experience and expertise in delivering architectures for large software solutions to meet critical business requirements.
• Ability to discover technical debts and improvement opportunities in existing live systems.
• Work closely with product owners and enterprise architects to influence and prioritize technical backlog items.
• Proficient in Java & Java EE, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems and the ability to write reusable components/Java libraries.
• Deep familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS (mandatory), Azure (good to have), or Google (good to have).
• Work experience in Spring Boot 2.x, Spring Cloud, Angular > 6 / React JS, and knowledge of Node JS.
• Familiarity with OOPS, MVC, JDBC, RESTful, WSDL, XML, XSD, JSON, and Swagger Open API specifications.
• Experience in NoSQL (preferably MongoDB) and RDBMS (Oracle, PostgreSQL); capability to write complex SQL queries, procedures, and functions.
• Design and create database schemas that support business processes.
• Work experience in the Spring framework (Spring Core, Spring Batch, AOP, Spring Data, Spring JDBC, Spring Boot), Hibernate ORM, and Spring Security with OAuth2 implementation.
• Experience with messaging technologies like JMS, Active MQ, IBM MQ, and Apache Kafka.
• Good to have experience in container-based architecture (Kubernetes, Docker) and CI/CD tools (Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD).
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as RTC and GIT.
• Familiarity with build tools such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle.