Job Title
Software Architect - Java
Job Description
Essential Functions (Job Duties and Responsibilities)
Solid understanding of duties performed within the entire software development life cycle, as well as tools, and language(s) to include
- Collaborate with Product Owners/BA's in refinement and defining user stories
- Follow and coach best practices for software development
- Design, develop, maintain and/or work with complex microservices that meet requirements, provide high quality in a high performance environment
- Contributes to complex application architectures and technical alternatives to meet functional requirements working with the development team and System, Software, and Solution architects
- Contributes to and leads technical documentation development for application designs
- Ability to analyse functional issues, performance issues, production components and configurations, Triaging/troubleshooting of issues across dev, QA, and production environments
- Work as a multi-skilled professional practicing Agile in a SCRUM methodology
- Taking part in continuous improvement through sharing of knowledge and coaching within the team
Required Education And Experience
- Technical College Degree, Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science or Information Technology or equivalent
- A Minimum of 12 years working experience developing in Java (21+) & Spring Boot. Working experience in Front-End development, including working with Angular is advantageous.
- Good to know - JPA/Hibernate, Liquibase, OpenAPI
- Advanced knowledge developing Event Driven Architecture, Domain Driven Design, REST APIs and micro-services.
- Experience with the following technologies Kubernetes, Kafka (or similar MQ system), Keycloak
- Experience developing unit and automated tests.
- Working knowledge of JUnit and Cucumber (BDD)
- API Testing Postman, SoapUI (at least one is required)
- Experience in working with GIT, SVN or other distributed source control systems
- Experience in working with either Maven or Gradle build tools
- Working knowledge and experience in using Docker and Kubernetes clusters
- Practical use of JSON and message exchange formats
Preferred Qualifications
- Working knowledge of developing/deployment of applications within cloud systems (Azure, AWS, Rancher, etc.)
- Working experience with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.)
- Knowledge and experience in assisting in construction of CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with DevOps including integration of test automation systems
Knowledge-Skills-Abilities (Competencies)
- Effective communication skills (written and verbal)
- Good interpersonal skills (work well within a team)
- Be able to contribute to the onboarding process of additional team members
- Ability to work in a fast-paced operational environment with competing priorities and multiple stakeholders
- Strong analytical abilities, and able to put forward recommendations.
- Able to work unsupervised, take initiative and resolve issues.
