We are looking for a Solutions Architect responsible for building Java applications. This includes everything from complex groups of back-end services to their client-end counterparts on desktop and mobile platforms. Your primary responsibility will be to design and develop these applications, while coordinating with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. A commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and product quality is essential.
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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 the applications.
- Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions.
- Maintain code quality, organization, and automation.
- Manage the team and successfully deliver the project.
Skills:
- Experience in an agile software development environment with a strong understanding of agile architecture principles.
- Strong collaborative mindset for collective decentralized decision-making.
- Technical skills and knowledge of modern architectural styles and practices such as Microservices, Containers, AWS Cloud (mandatory, Azure is a plus), APIs, and Event-driven architecture.
- Strong foundational knowledge of software architecture concepts, patterns, principles, and quality attributes.
- Proven leadership skills with a proactive, positive, and growth mindset.
- Proficient in Java & Java EE, with a solid understanding of its ecosystems.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS (mandatory), Azure (good to have), or Google Cloud (good to have).
- Experience with Spring Boot 2.x, Spring Cloud, Angular > 6 / React JS, and Node JS.
- Understanding of OOPS, MVC, JDBC, RESTful services, WSDL, XML, XSD, JSON, and Swagger Open API specification.
- Experience with NoSQL (preferably MongoDB) and RDBMS (Oracle, PostgreSQL).
- Knowledge of writing complex SQL queries, procedures, and functions.
- Familiarity with messaging technologies like JMS, Active MQ, IBM MQ, and experience with Apache Kafka.
- Good to have experience in container-based architecture (Kubernetes, Docker) and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Gitlab CI/CD).
- Implement automated testing platforms and unit tests.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (RTC, GIT) and build tools (Ant, Maven, Gradle).
Work Conditions:
On-site, Full-time
Location:
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Language Requirements: Not specified.
