Application Architect

Role Description

AWG is looking for an Application Architect in Information Technology (IT) to provide architectural and leadership oversight for strategic, business-transforming technical solutions in IT service and support. The Application Architect is a premier customer-facing role serving as an advisor, subject-matter expert, and delivery partner for our customers. As an experienced Architect with a focus on solution implementation, you’ll be responsible for guiding our customers from concept to go-live and rollout. You are a passionate technologist who is up to date on the latest technologies, can dive into processes and love applying your skills to solve a customer challenge.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Solutions (50%)
  • Work independently to develop solutions based on requirements using AWG standards.
  • Design and develop web-enabled client-side and server-side applications as part of a structured Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process.
  • Ensure the changes developed are high quality, meet business and technical requirements.
  • Ensure all solutions include clear technical documentation, architectural diagrams, and user-facing guides, along with robust logging practices that support monitoring, troubleshooting, and long-term maintainability.
  • Develop reliable solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity.
• Support Availability and Services (15%)
  • Troubleshoot and develop a solution to the problem.
  • Engage with and support a development team and support organization, without supervisor responsibilities.
  • On-call responsibilities.
• Develop IT Strategy (15%)
  • Collaborate with customers to understand their business problems or needs and desired outcomes.
  • In collaboration with other members of the team, build reusable assets and materials that enable the AWG community.
• Development and Continuous Improvement Culture (20%)
  • Identify and implement opportunities for system improvement around stability, performance, and maintainability.
  • Open to receive and give constructive feedback.
  • Serve as a mentor to less experienced IT Software Engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related degree.
• 10+ years of application development experience, with focus on application architecture.
• Experience developing applications and services (APIs) using React, Java, and Spring Boot (or similar).
• Experience with source code repository using GitHub, Azure DevOps or others.
• Experience with source code branching using Gitflow, trunk-base or similar.
• Experience with microservices architecture.
• Experience in designing, developing, and implementing high performing, large scale, and complex systems including integration with third-party applications.
• Experience with technical mentorship of teammates.
• Experience executing the organizational operation of vision and goals, in alignment with department leadership.
• Experience with Azure/AWS/ cloud or managed services.
• Experience with containerization technology (Docker; orchestration tools, i.e. Kubernetes).
• Experience with common programming languages (React, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Accomplished interpersonal and communication skills, demonstrating a clear and articulate standard of written and verbal communications to various levels of audiences.
• Ability to work independently, self-starter, highly motivated, resourceful.
• Demonstrated knowledge of multiple technologies over career and ability to learn new technologies.
• Ability to work as a committed member of a cross-functional team, sharing ideas and inputs from different perspectives in working towards delivering an exceptional product experience.
• Solid experience with full SDLC – requirements, design, development, testing, and deployment using waterfall and/or agile methodologies.
• Experience working with relational databases.
• Excels in working remotely with remote team members.

Requirements

• Retail, wholesale, or Consumer Product Goods industry experience.
• Knowledge of security best practices (OWASP, CBE, NIST, etc).
• Knowledge of Azure resources such as Logic App, Service Bus, Azure Functions, APIM, or similar cloud technologies.
• ETL development experience.
• Knowledge of event-based/message architectures.
• Knowledge of virtual networking (public, private, and hybrid networks and subnetworks), network interfaces, and identity/access management (security groups and roles, network access control lists).
• Knowledge of latest DevOps technologies (Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, IaC frameworks such as Ansible).
• Knowledge in solution evaluation/selection and implementation for large scale, and complex environments.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Paid Vacation, Holiday, and Sick Time
• 401(k) with 4% match along with 3 other contributions
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Basic & Supplemental Life and AD&D
• Employee Assistance Program
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Wellness Program
• Yearly Holiday Bonus