Solution Architect

Solution ArchitectLocation: Okemos, MIExperience: 10+Team: EngineeringPractice: Solution ArchitectureIdeal Candidate Description:Expert on API Gateway (general API Gateway concept - Not the AWS API Gateway service)Expert on IT Security.Expert on Performance issues.Expert on UI and service integration.Expert on service to service integration.Expert on automated testing.Good understanding on Maven.Requirement:Is a creative thinker and great teammate who can come up with innovative approaches to help resolve complex issues.Has good analytical and problem-solving skills and can break down a solution into smaller units of work and produce a solution roadmap.Has written high quality, well-tested shared components that can be leveraged by multiple systems.Takes pride in software craftsmanship, diving deep into code and constantly innovating.Has extensive experience in back-end development, service design, data modeling and web development.Takes requirements (business features, technical debts and internal enhancements) and designs resilient solutions.Can support and collaborate with multiple development teams and provide technical guidance.Can step into specific projects to supply additional management, coding and engineering capacity as needed to make projects successful.Has expert knowledge in distributed systems with a heavy focus in conversational semantics for large scale distributed systems.Is passionate about webscale technologies as applied to large scale growing businesses.Desired Skills:Excellent verbal and written communication skills and can explain a complex technical solution to business stakeholders.Demonstrated ability to translate customer needs into well documented requirements, architectural plans and produce near production ready prototypes.Expert at producing sequence flow diagrams, solution diagrams, architectural component diagramsTwo years of experience of mentoring team leads and engineers.Demonstrated willingness to learn from peers and co-workers junior to them.Ability to enforce responsible engineering practices (including automated unit and stress testing, engineering for data security, resiliency, scalability, etc.)Proficient in multiple programming languages like: Java, Python, Ruby, Scala, Groovy, GO, BASHExpert knowledge of Java or Scala or Erlang with 7+ years of experience.In depth experience developing high volume transactions and distributed applications– both real-time and batch.A deep understanding of performance tuning and scalability.Development experience with REST WebServices and various data interchange and representation formats such as JSON, XML, HTML etc.Development experience with RDBMS, distributed cache (Memcached, Redis) and NoSQL database.Deep end to end architectural understanding of distributed applications.Experience with containerization technologies (such as Docker) and familiarity with micro-service architecture and development patterns.A deep and demonstrable understanding of design patterns.Knowledge and understanding of application servers such as JBoss, Tomcat and Weblogic.Development experience with security such as securing the users and their data.Development experience of writing batch jobs with performing high volume transactions.Knowledge and understanding of work in modern CI environments: version control, build tool, CI serverKnowledge of Open Source libraries, tools and frameworks. Experience with any modern open source libraries would be an added advantage.Experience with Agile development methodology.Experience in HIPAA and PCI security Domain.Development experience with modern technologies such Elastic Search, Kafka, Kibana,Logstash, Hibernate/JPA, Spring, Angular. Experience with any modern technologies would be an added advantage.Experience building and deploying software onto AWS or Openstack using Chef, or similar technologies.Experience with big data and data analytics applications, or similar systems programming experience.Strong expertise in text parsing, analytics and machine learning.Experience with SAFE framework.Experience with Java Message Service (JMS) and Message Driven Bean (MDB) development is preferred.Expert knowledge of JDBC and managing transactions.Understanding of Service Oriented Architecture.