Principal Application Architect

Principal Application Architect Shipping Company Job Description About the Role Salary up to $180K plus 10% bonus and benefits Hybrid Role 2 In 3 Remote Near Sky Harbor Airport The Principal Applications Architect will bring a balance of technology and business strategy focus to company. What you'll do: Specialize in one or more business verticals of company to provide domain specific solutions. Work with the project teams to recommend the architecture approach for applications and define in an increasing level of detail as the project progresses. Lead design review process and ensure recommendations made are understood by recipients and are monitored during the project life cycle. Research, analyze and recommend new technologies, frameworks, processes, and tools to further company's technology architecture. Be able to explain and educate complex solutions and integrations in a clear and articulate manner, using illustrative techniques (e.g., UML diagrams) as necessary. Develop Proof of Concepts that may include, analysis of problem, finding an optimal solution, design, development, and documentation. Contribute to the troubleshooting of difficult application production issues including performance tuning, memory management, database or other environment and architecture related issues. Provide thought leadership by educating and sharing best practices, building deep relationships with organization leaders, conducting brown bag sessions, mentoring junior team members, and writing white papers. Collaborate with various company teams to define application standards, conventions, and best practices. Report and escalate to senior management as needed. Execute other job duties as assigned. You have these skills: Critical thinking ability to analyze and solve complex problems. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Excellent interpersonal skills and can communicate effectively at all levels - with the team, peers and with senior management of the company. Comfortable in situations that are ambiguous and can juggle between multiple tasks and rapidly changing priorities. And these qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in technology related field. Ten (10) years of experience in relevant software and IT related projects. Four (4) years of experience performing as a full-time architect. Possess a high degree of technical expertise with foundational architectural principles in building Java and cloud based distributed systems. Expertise in application development using the following technologies: Java EE Spring boot Application servers (e.g. Tomcat, JBoss) Messaging (e.g. Active MQ, JBoss messaging) Database technologies (RDBMS and NoSQL DBs) Linux/Unix Cloud computing (AWS experience preferred) Excellent grasp of application security concerns and remediation techniques. Knowledge of networking, infrastructure, and storage components. Well-rounded technical background in current web and micro-service technologies. Experience working with business users in defining processes and translating those to available solutions. This is a hybrid position Additional Information All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. XceedSearch.com