Technical Architect - Axelon Services Corporation

Job Title: Technical Architect
Location: Plano, TX (Hybrid)

Overall Purpose:

Responsible for developing information architectures and data models.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate 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 organizations
  • Reviewing defined requirements of technical business analyst to ensure architecture is done according to standards / best practices
  • Promoting 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 practices
  • Collaboratively defining and integrating strategic technical roadmaps aligning to product roadmaps
  • Monitoring the performance of architectural systems to ensure fluid interaction between components
  • Laying out upgrade paths to architectural systems and software life cycle to ensure improved processes
  • Defining 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 NFRs
• Ensure applications and services are leveraging building blocks whenever possible.
• Supports integrated solutions between legacy and target state solutions.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of overall IT Industry experience (architecture, design, development, testing).
• 2+ years of architecture experience in building scalable and optimal performing applications.
• Customer Account Management or eCommerce (Catalog, Offer Discovery, Pricing, Cart, Checkout and Order Processing) applications and Telecommunication experiences are preferred.
• Proven track record in setting and defining architectural solutions and designs aligned with target architecture; RESTful API development, microservices development, solid understanding of design impacts to performance, security, resiliency, and maintainability.
• 2+ years of experience in build and CI/CD technologies: GitHub, Maven, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Nexus or Sonar.
• Preferred experience in cloud technologies and platforms such as AWS, Azure, Mulesoft, Kafka.
• Preferred data store technologies such as Redis, Cassandra, Solr, Cosmos.
• Other required experience such as Java 11, SpringBoot 2.3.12, Swagger, JUnit 4 & 5, ISBUS, Dynatrace.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to present complex technical information in a clear manner to peers, developers, and senior leaders.
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum/Kanban.