Senior Solution Architect - Digital Channels

Dicetek LLC; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 367,000 - 515,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to oversee the design and development of Java applications. The ideal candidate will have over 13 years of experience, expertise in IT cloud solutions, and a strong foundation in software architecture principles. Responsibilities include translating application storyboards, ensuring code quality, and leading a development team. The role demands a proactive mindset and strong technical skills in modern architectural practices, particularly within cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 13+ years of experience in software development.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience in designing IT cloud solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop applications using Java.
• Translate storyboards and use cases into functional applications.
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks and bugs.

Skills

Java

Python

Microservices

AWS

Agile methodologies

Spring Boot

NoSQL

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Education

B.S. or higher in Computer Science

Tools

AWS DynamoDB

Oracle

PostgreSQL

JMS

Apache Kafka

Job description

Overview

Senior Solution Architect - Digital Channels

We are looking for a Solution Architect responsible for building Java applications. This includes anything between complex groups of back-end services and their client-end (desktop, mobile & Tablet) counterparts. Your primary responsibility will be to design and develop these applications, and to coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Thus, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and product quality is essential.

Responsibilities

• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.
• Managing team and successfully delivering the project.

Basic Qualifications

• Senior professional with 13+ years of experience.
• B.S. or higher in Computer Science or other technical discipline, or related practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of experience designing, executing, and supporting IT cloud solutions.
• Proven experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile / iterative methodologies required

Required Qualifications

• Strong foundation knowledge of software architecture concepts, patterns, principles, and quality attributes. Ability to consistently apply them in real-world scenarios with a pragmatic, system thinking, and problem-solving mindset by analyzing architecture trade-offs for delivering high-quality, sustainable solution architecture.
• Experience and expertise in delivering architectures for large software solutions meeting critical business purposes. Ability to proactively discover technical debts and continuous improvement opportunities of existing live systems. Work closely with the product owner and enterprise architects to influence and prioritize technical backlog items.
• Working experience in an agile software development environment with a good understanding of the principles of agile architecture. Strong collaborative mindset for collective decentralized decision making.
• Demonstrate strong technical skills with a deep understanding of modern architectural styles and practices such as Microservices, Containers, AWS Cloud (good to have Azure), APIs, Continuous Delivery, Event-driven architecture, Evolutionary architecture, etc., with a passion for hands on coding.
• Proven leadership skills with a proactive, positive, and growth mindset. Ability to foster and motivate programmers for delivering with craftsmanship. Good personal skills to continuously engage and communicate with an egoless empathetic mindset.
• Proficient in Java & Java EE, Python with a good knowledge of its ecosystems and skill to write reusable components / Java libraries.
• Deep familiarity with TOGAF, Generative AI, LLM and cloud platforms such as AWS (mandatory), Azure (good to have) or Google (good to have).
• Work experience in Spring boot 2.x, Spring cloud, Angular 12 / React JS and knowledge on Node JS.
• Familiarity with concepts of Generative AI, LLM, OOPS, MVC, JDBC, and RESTful and Experience with WSDL, XML, XSD, JSON and Swagger Open API specification.
• Experience in NoSQL (AWS DynamoDB preferable) and RDBMS DB (Oracle, PostgreSQL), In memory Database. Should be able to write complex SQL queries / procedures and functions.
• Design & creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Work experience in Spring framework (Spring core / Spring Batch / AOP / Spring Data / Spring JDBC / Spring Boot), Hibernate ORM. And Working experience in Spring Security and OAuth2 implementation.
• Experience with messaging technology like JMS, Active MQ, IBM MQ and Experience with Apache Kafka.
• Good to have experience in container-based architecture – Kubernetes, Docker, CI / CD like Jenkins and Gitlab CI / CD.
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as RTC, GIT.
• Familiarity with build tools such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle.