Technical Architect
Auburn Hills, Michigan 48326 (Hybrid - 3 days onsite per week)
6+ Months
Education and Years of Experience:
- Minimum of 10 years' experience in advanced technologies including a minimum of 5+ years as a technical architect
- Minimum 7 years' experience in development including a minimum of 3+ years leading development resources
Required and Desired Skills/Certifications:
- Solid experience in Springboot, Spring framework, J2EE technologies, event driven architecture and systems integration
- Solid experience in modelling architecture and design with expertise of at least one of the frameworks (C4 model, UML, Archimate and Arc42 etc.)
- Strong experience in designing and implementing Restful APIs using Spring Framework/Spring Boot.
- Strong experience architecting and designing modern business facing and consumer facing web applications including Single Page Applications using responsive design concept with Angular or React etc.
- Solid experience in cloud based application design, development and API driven systems integration
- Experience with Continuous Integration Tools (SVN/Github/Maven/Jenkins/JIRA)
- Experience with cloud native application design and development with main stream platforms and technologies
- Hands on experience with cloud technologies including AWS, GCP, Openshift, Kubernetes, ELK, Kafka, Kong etc.
- Experience with IBM Security Access Manager, IBM Integration Bus, IBM WebSphere, IBM API Connect and Data power
- Security architecture design (Identity management, Authentication and Authorization framework, SAML, OIDC/OAuth2, mTLS, secret and certificate management etc.)
- Experience with Application Performance Management and Web Site Performance Monitoring tools.
- Experience with application usage analytics and dashboard reporting
- Good knowledge with NoSQL concepts and products
- Deep understanding with hands-on experience on modern security frameworks and specifications (Oauth2, OIDC, 2FA etc).
- Understanding and hands-on experience of GraphQL based API development with Apollo or similar products
- Thorough understanding and experience of event driven architecture, micro services, distributed architecture and design patterns
- Experience dealing with financial system integrations, transaction management etc
- Through understanding and hands-on experience with implementing robust logging and tracing implementation for end to end systems traceability
- Knowledge and understanding of CI/CD process and tools (like Jenkins)
- Solid experience with code quality and coverage tools like Sonarqube.
- Extensive experience in architecting consumer facing web applications which is adaptable to dynamic and fast changing business needs
- Willing and ready to get hands on code development with dev team for developing and troubleshooting, doing quick proof of concepts for exploring new solutions, products etc.
- Experienced in working with business/product team to discuss, analyze, understand and negotiate business requirements, being able to explain to business about the technical considerations and associated implications on the user journey/experience/requirements.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Experience in the concepts and methodologies of enterprise architecture
- Deep knowledge of information technologies (Database, Business Intelligence, Infrastructure, Networks, Web & Integration software)
- Broad understanding of technologies and has experience in implementation methodologies, software development life cycle process, and project management
- Excellent planning and organization, project management and time management skills (particularly in delivery effort estimation and project scheduling)
- Strong problem solving and negotiation abilities
- Ability to inform, educate and influence managers and employees to support goals and initiatives
- Exceptional written, verbal and presentation skills are necessary to effectively convey goals and initiatives to team and management
- Knowledge of the vendor market and possess existing relationships
- Experience with web application, web service and mobile application architecture and design
- Strong API and data integration background
- Detail design background based on technologies listed under technical experience
- Strong Automotive OEM experience
- Extensive background in designing architectural solutions for large complex programs which results in representation in front of Architecture Review Board (e.g. logical & physical architectures, data classifications/protections, etc.) Extensive background in leading large and complex development initiatives
- Proven technical leadership experience, leading application detailed design and development (apply proper design patterns and adhere to VWGoA architecture and design principles, document design, review design by vendors, support QA)
- Proven experience leading development teams (design-implementation, code review for quality and security, development mentor technical teams)
- Experience leading technical troubleshooting including bug fix remediation and performance tuning
- Integrate comprehensive security principals into all phases of design and architecture
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