Solutions/Application Architect

Solutions/Application Architect

Sonsoft, Inc. is a USA based corporation duly organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Georgia. Sonsoft Inc. is growing at a steady pace specializing in the fields of Software Development, Software Consultancy and Information Technology Enabled Services.

Job Description

Architect, design, and oversee implementation of end-to-end telematics systems. Facilitate the analysis, design, development, testing, implementing and documentation of software applications and business systems of the highest complexity. Design and implement solutions to fill long-term strategic and short-term tactical goals of Honda's architecture standards/direction. Provide technical leadership to the overall program (consisting of core team, internal ISD teams and vendor delivery teams). Coach and motivate the application development team with technical aspects to ensure on time delivery. Conduct research on emerging technologies in support of systems development efforts, and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and systems flexibility to translate vision into detailed designs. Identifying key business and technology drivers that impact application architectures such as user requirements, existing application architectures, existing application environment and performance requirements. Conducting both functional and technical assessments of current business and technology architectures. Providing guidance to project teams regarding principles of system/application design, coding, standards and system performance. Provides feedback to the project manager for the design and development release plan based on product feature release requirements and technical solution roadmap. Establishes standards and best practices for quality delivery (coding standards, development environment set up, code review process, build and release process etc.) Does not have development responsibilities but has the ability to guide the development team with prototype code and help with debugging when necessary.

Daily tasks performed include providing leadership for the technical aspects of the design, development and deployment of telematics features using a team consisting of internal and external technical resources based on the architecture that has been established. Ability to coach and mentor others. Ability to provide input to and self manage to tasks in a plan. Ability to develop and communicate technical concepts via UML code snippet, etc to technical audience via Powerpoint, Visio, Word etc. to nontechnical audience. Ability to lead and work with internal resources, offshore teams and partner organizations. Ability to explain technical concepts and positions in a concise and objective manner. Ability to communicate (upwards, peer and downward) accurately and at appropriate time. Ability to manage and juggle multiple priorities with dexterity. Remain calm under pressure.

Qualifications

Must have the below skills: Experience in developing automated testing techniques using MVEN, ANT, etc. Project experience in delivering integration interfaces using BPM and ESB technologies. Working technical knowledge of Cloud Saas.laaS, PaaS, vendor integration, data protection, and security. Experience in using noSQL databases for caching, transactions, etc. Experience in developing applications that have multilanguage requirements. Indepth knowledge of software development technology, principles, methods, tools, practices, industry standards and trends. Experience in application architecture & design techniques and familiarity with data modeling and relational database techniques. Extensive, practical experience with building and maintaining large scale, complex application systems in a team environment. Demonstrated experience leading or developing high quality, enterprise scale software products using a structured system development lifecycle. Ability to work under tight deadlines and lead troubleshooting under pressure. Experience in build and release process that require parallel development of different product release versions.

Business experience: 10+ years IT experience with 5+ years experience to solutions development. 5+ years experience developing custom applications and 3+ years at an Architect level. Minimum 7 years of back and experience within a J2EE Stack, Spring centric solutions, Hibernate and relational database environment.

Wants: Experience working as a technical delivery lead in a Big 5 consulting organization or Internet based company (web and/or mobile). 5+ years in a Technical Lead role in managing development resources (direct people management is preferred; not just managing offshore vendors). Understanding of Infrastructure Design (Servers, Networks, Load Balancers, etc.). Experience with leveraging enterprise security authentication and authorization infrastructure. Native and hybrid mobile application development (iOS and Android). Experience with developing server side software that interacts with embedded devices (Connected Vehicles/Telematics experience is a plus). Experience with web technologies (HTML5, AJAX, Javascript, JSON, REST, Flash). Experience with Telematics feature development such as safety and security, navigation apps, internet radio app integration, etc. Experience with a Big Data architecture and infrastructure (Hadoop, IBM, BigInsights, Spark, etc.).

Additional Information

Note: This is a Contract job opportunity. Only US Citizen, Green Card Holder, GC-EAD, H4-EAD, L2-EAD, TN Visa and H1B can apply. No OPT-EAD for this position. Please mention your email id in your email or resume.