Technical Architect

Technical ArchitectJob location: Plano Texas 75075 Duration: 12 monthsResponsibilities and Day-to-Day ViewCollaborate with critical stakeholders to understand business needs, priority, and the quality of services to be created or enhanced. Drive alignment between application team implementation and solution to be compliant with Target State Architecture. Responsible for discovering and identifying any bottleneck gaps such as manual flows that can hinder the services or impact cycle time or cost and resolve them. Provide architectural governance and technical direction for the solution deployment strategy at the Product team level and architectural alignment across product teams. This includes:Designing, documenting and sharing the architectural vision across organizationsReviewing defined requirements of technical business analyst to ensure architecture is done according to standards / best practicesPromoting adaptive design and engineering practices, ensure that common technology, design practices, and infrastructure are used and facilitate the reuse of code, components, and proven patterns; influence common modeling, design, and coding practicesCollaboratively defining and integrating strategic technical roadmaps aligning to product roadmapsMonitoring the performance of architectural systems to ensure fluid interaction between componentsLaying out upgrade paths to architectural systems and software life cycle to ensure improved processesDefining Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) for common frameworks, libraries, resiliency, maintainability, automation, performance, logging/debugging, metrics, security, and other common areas of the platform and ensuring solutions align with established NFRsEnsure applications and services are leveraging building blocks whenever possible. Supports integrated solutions between legacy and target state solutions.Description5+ years of overall IT Industry experience (architecture, design, development, testing)3+ years of architecture experience in building scalable and optimal performing eCommerce applicationsProficient technical expertise in architecture and design of systemsAzure and AWS Cloud experience (certification preferred)Experience with Chat frameworks such as Nuance technologiesExperience in Natural Language Programming (NLP) & FrameworksExperience with Google Dialog flowExperience with Google Virtual AssistantsExperience with React, Node JS, MS Bot frameworkPreferred experience in cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, Cassandra, Akamai, Ansible, Chef or TerraformPreferred experience in application monitoring including familiarity with Splunk, Dynatrace, Catchpoint, Grafana, Prometheus, and Nagios.