Microservice Solution Architect

Role Description

I have an opportunity for a Microservice Solution Architect - REMOTE and I am looking for a candidate who can join immediately. If you are interested, please reply to me with your updated resume or refer someone.

Position: Microservice Solution Architect

Location: Seattle, WA - Remote

Duration: 6+ Months Contract

Roles and Responsibilities

• Create technical vision & provide architectural assessments, strategies, roadmaps for Digital Program teams.
• Keep the product advancing by incorporating the newest features to the product while ensuring that the features released are working as expected.
• Lead projects within architecture. Work with Product Owner/Business Analysts to understand functional requirements and interact with other cross-functional teams to architect, design, and release features.
• Develop Proof-of-Concept projects to validate new architectures and solutions.
• Create detailed architecture including recommendations for API/micro-services enablement, cloud migration, etc.
• Engage with Domain Architects and technical teams to determine the most appropriate technical strategy and designs to meet business needs.
• Support product launches in UAT and prod go live.
• Investigate new technologies and techniques and research ongoing industry developments through a partnership with the Architecture team.
• Mentor project delivery teams on adopting to DevOps model, new ideas/technologies.
• Drive common vision, practices and capabilities across teams.

Must Haves

• Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life.
• Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results.
• Communicates with honesty and kindness and creates space for others to do the same.
• Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.
• Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.
• Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn't take themselves too seriously.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and/or applicable experience in information/computer technology field.
• 12+ years' experience designing scalable, secure modern micro-services using Spring Boot, Commerce tools, test driven development, and cloud native design patterns.
• Experience in defining & realizing end-to-end Solution Architecture for large & complex systems.
• Very strong technical skills with at least 10 years hands-on design, coding, integration, and deployment experience in enterprise applications.
• 3+ years of experience in architecting the Digital Retail landscape is required.
• Extensive knowledge and application of Design Patterns.
• Strong understanding of microservice architecture & knowledge of challenges related to building cloud-native apps.
• Experience in design and development of RESTful APIs using JAX-RS and JSON.
• Solid working experience with AWS.
• Strong software development fundamentals, including automated testing, source control, continuous integration in addition to continuous delivery and/or deployment.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting for microservices.
• Hands-on experience to support development, infrastructure, and operations.
• Experience working with security log analysis, application logs, and general log management practices.
• Experience working with Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform.
• Experience in design and integration with 3rd parties.
• Deep knowledge in DevOps, CICD practices is a must.
• Commerce domain knowledge a must.
• Background in agile methodologies is highly valued.