Job Description
About the Role
Salary up to $180K plus 10% bonus and benefits
Hybrid Role
2 In 3 Remote
Near Sky Harbor Airport
The Principal Applications Architect will bring a balance of technology and business strategy focus to company.
What you’ll do:
- Specialize in one or more business verticals of company to provide domain specific solutions.
- Work with the project teams to recommend the architecture approach for applications and define in an increasing level of detail as the project progresses.
- Lead design review process and ensure recommendations made are understood by recipients and are monitored during the project life cycle.
- Research, analyze and recommend new technologies, frameworks, processes, and tools to further company’s technology architecture.
- Be able to explain and educate complex solutions and integrations in a clear and articulate manner, using illustrative techniques (e.g., UML diagrams) as necessary.
- Develop Proof of Concepts that may include, analysis of problem, finding an optimal solution, design, development, and documentation.
- Contribute to the troubleshooting of difficult application production issues including performance tuning, memory management, database or other environment and architecture related issues.
- Provide thought leadership by educating and sharing best practices, building deep relationships with organization leaders, conducting brown bag sessions, mentoring junior team members, and writing white papers.
- Collaborate with various company teams to define application standards, conventions, and best practices.
- Report and escalate to senior management as needed.
- Execute other job duties as assigned.
You have these skills:
- Critical thinking ability to analyze and solve complex problems.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and can communicate effectively at all levels - with the team, peers and with senior management of the company.
- Comfortable in situations that are ambiguous and can juggle between multiple tasks and rapidly changing priorities.
And these qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in technology related field.
- Ten (10) years of experience in relevant software and IT related projects.
- Four (4) years of experience performing as a full-time architect.
- Possess a high degree of technical expertise with foundational architectural principles in building Java and cloud based distributed systems.
- Expertise in application development using the following technologies:
- Java EE
- Spring boot
- Application servers (e.g. Tomcat, JBoss)
- Messaging (e.g. Active MQ, JBoss messaging)
- Database technologies (RDBMS and NoSQL DBs)
- Linux/Unix
- Cloud computing (AWS experience preferred)
- Excellent grasp of application security concerns and remediation techniques.
- Knowledge of networking, infrastructure, and storage components.
- Well-rounded technical background in current web and micro-service technologies.
- Experience working with business users in defining processes and translating those to available solutions.
- This is a hybrid position