Application Architect

GE Vernova; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading renewable energy company is seeking an experienced Application Architect to design and develop backend systems utilizing Java, Spring Boot, and PostgreSQL. The role involves building scalable RESTful APIs and optimizing database performance, contributing to the digital transformation of the energy market. The ideal candidate should possess strong technical skills, particularly in cloud computing and microservices, and have experience with geospatial data management. This is a full-time role in Cambridge, UK.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or STEM Majors with advanced experience.
• Strong experience in back-end technologies and SaaS deployments.
• Experience with PostgreSQL performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain backend systems and services with Java and Spring Boot.
• Contribute to the design of scalable RESTful APIs.
• Optimize database queries and ensure data integrity in PostgreSQL.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

PostgreSQL

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Cloud Computing

GraphQL

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or STEM Majors

Tools

PostGIS

Grafana

Kibana

Jaeger

Job description

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Join us at GE Vernova Grid Software to be part of the team leading the digital transformation of the energy market. As the world’s energy sector moves away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy sources, industrial companies are challenged with addressing this transition in transformative ways. Digitization will be key to making power-generating assets more efficient and the electric grid more secure and resilient. Our Geospatial products play a critical role in this transformation by supporting the design, modelling and maintenance of electric gas and telecommunication networks.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend systems and services using Java, Spring Boot, and PostgreSQL within a microservices architecture to deliver cloud-based geospatial enterprise products.
• Contribute to the design of RESTful APIs to build scalable high-performance services for single- and multi-tenant SaaS products.
• Design, document and oversee the architecture of scalable SaaS products.
• Work as part of a team optimising database queries and ensuring data integrity and consistency in PostgreSQL.
• Engage in technical discussions, participate in technical designs and present technical ideas through white boarding (or online equivalent).
• Evaluate technology options to meet business needs and make appropriate trade-offs.
• Stay abreast of emerging trends in SaaS, cloud computing and data technologies.
• Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation.
• Understand performance parameters and be able to assess application performance and contribute to optimising it/improving it through design and best coding practices.
• Work on core data structures as well as algorithms and have the ability to implement them using a language of choice.
• Use excellent communication skills to work collaboratively and effectively with global teams in an Agile setting.
• Write clear, structured documentation for designs, ensuring developers and stakeholders can easily understand and maintain the codebase, along with product documentation to support end user integration.

Education Qualification

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with advanced experience.
• Strong professional experience.

Desired characteristics

• Experience in using back-end technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Kafka, MinIO, and Infinispan.
• Experience in both SaaS and on-premise deployments developing performant, resilient and scalable enterprise software services and components using microservices, with a focus on handling large data volumes including both relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience in designing, implementing and maintaining observability solutions enabling effective monitoring and troubleshooting of applications and services.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, including performance optimization, query tuning, and schema design in a microservice environment.
• Familiarity with PostGIS for working with geospatial data in PostgreSQL.
• Experience building distributed systems including on security, analytics, throttling, caching, and logging.
• Experience building performant RESTful or GraphQL APIs which serve large volumes of data.
• Familiarity with geospatial data ingestion and management at scale (or similar connected network paradigm).
• Experience using server-side monitoring and observability technologies such as Grafana, Kibana, Kiali, and Jaeger.
• Experience in containerization and orchestration using Docker, Helm and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Security frameworks (e.g., JWT, OAUTH2).
• Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Software Design Patterns and Java coding principles.
• Experience in API documentation, for example using Swagger with REST API and GraphQL schema documentation.

Additional Information

• Relocation Assistance Provided: No
• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Electric Power Generation