Chief Architect (Full-stack / MuleSoft) - IC

Classy Wheeler Limited; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

A leading technology consulting firm located in Hong Kong is seeking a Chief Architect with expertise in full-stack and MuleSoft solutions. The role involves defining enterprise architecture policies and leading multi-cloud solution delivery. Candidates should be certified in cloud technologies and have strong hands-on experience with microservices and API Management. This position offers the opportunity to mentor teams, collaborate with cross-functional groups, and innovate in cloud-native design strategies. Competitive compensation and a dynamic work environment are provided.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Solution/Enterprise Architect.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native design patterns.
• Hands-on expertise in API Management and integration solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise architecture policies and standards.
• Architect solutions for multi-cloud environments.
• Lead key architectural engagements and mentoring teams.

Skills

End-to-End stack expertise

Cloud PaaS settings

Hands-on integration development

Microservices architecture

Agile methodology

Education

Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Technical Architecture experience

Tools

Spring Boot

MuleSoft platform

GitHub

Jenkins

Apache

Job description

Chief Architect (Full-stack / MuleSoft) - IC

Chief Architect (Full-stack)

Responsibilities

• Define, review, standardize enterprise architecture policies and governance for application architecture, especially for modern design techniques such as microservices, containerization, serverless, cloud PaaS.
• Liaise and collaborate with other standards, practices, process governance groups within enterprise.
• Architect and design solutions using combination of hosting patterns – private, public cloud (Azure/AWS), PaaS (OpenShift, Cloud Foundry).
• Design and implement operating model, governance for multi cloud environment.
• Help promote innovation, best in class execution and exploration of new ideas as a culture.
• Perform app portfolio analysis, identify candidates for cloud native journey: re-host, re-platform, containerize, re-architect etc.
• Applying application modernization, re-platforming and domain driven design techniques such as event storming, event shunting.
• Transform monolithic apps to be service oriented - understand when and how to break out microservices from the monolith.
• Experience of design and implement cloud native microservices architecture using CloudFoundry, OpenShift PaaS or another public cloud PaaS.
• Design and implement microservices using Spring boot and Spring cloud – service versioning, reuse, discovery, configuration, security, monitoring.
• Design, codify, and make use of reusable patterns for modernization across app portfolio.
• Building and deploying modern software using techniques such as TDD, CI/CD, and Refactoring.
• Ensure focused understanding of key areas of the product and related technologies within the team.
• End to end solution delivery, responsible for designing solutions, writing code, test cases, executing test cases, automating build, test and deployment, environment provisioning and configuration.
• Overall delivery of software components working in collaboration with product and architecture teams.
• Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Owners to help define and shape deliverables, provide estimates, highlight technical risks and determine technical solutions.
• Liaise with operations for technical analysis of the issues.
• Collaborate with other technology and product teams to ensure integrated end-to-end design.
• Active participation in the Agile ceremonies and contribute to the overall functioning of self-organized, empowered, high performance team.
• Research, learn new methodologies and technologies and implement them in the project to continuously improve and optimize design, code, build, deploy, test lifecycle.
• Collaborate and actively contribute in discussions to help define technology and development approach within the team.

Chief Architect (MuleSoft)

Responsibilities

• Lead key architectural engagements in billable consulting roles.
• Understand the client’s environment, business needs and provide expertise and consulting on the relevant solutions.
• Develop and deliver scope of works, hour/cost estimates, professional proposals and design documentation and ensure the implementation of the solution using project management principle.
• Act as the technical subject matter experts to lead high quality projects utilizing your delivery experience and technical understanding of complex integration solutions.
• Participate in and/or lead scope of work determination with regards to new pursuits.
• Develop partnership with MuleSoft and go to market plans with MuleSoft alliance teams.
• Build MuleSoft capability by attracting, developing and growing new Mulesoft talent.
• Assist in building and maintaining a pipeline of sales activity through contextual prospecting and pipelining using a variety of methods and partnerships.
• Provide insight to the customer as the basis of the commercial conversation, teaching customers something new/valuable about how to compete in their market.
• Liaise with key stakeholders to design a strategy as well as leading the development teams in order to deliver quality solutions.
• Perform the role of a mentor and coach, providing leadership and support for delivery teams.
• Experience in designing solutions, implementation, customization, integration and deployment of API Management and Integration solutions.
• Hands-on integration development experience with MuleSoft platform.
• Hands-on experience in API Management concepts & fundamentals. Strong knowledge in Web services and API technologies (REST, XML/JSON, SOAP, XSLT).
• Experience in integrating SFDC, SAP PI/PO, Cloud-To-Cloud, Cloud-On Prem.
• Strong knowledge of EAI/SOA best practices, development methodologies & standards.

Job Requirements

Chief Architect (Full-stack)

Requirements

• Experienced Solution/Enterprise/Tech Architect (End-to-End stack), Cloud PaaS Expert (Ex: either PAL Certified, AWS Certified, Azure or GCP certified), Thought leader with published point of views, Experienced in advising clients, Hands-on polyglot expert (polyglot means knowing more than one programming language), Experienced in ”New way of working”.
• Sound understanding of end to end technology stack.
• Experience of architecting solutions using combination of private, public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and PaaS (OpenShift, CloudFoundry).
• Experience with multi cloud setup.
• Familiarity with design patterns, domain driven design, component based architecture, and evolutionary architecture.
• Expertise in Core java or .NET – Collections, Multi-Threading, Design patterns.
• Expertise in development frameworks – Spring, Spring boot, Spring cloud.
• Designing and implementing microservices with Spring boot.
• Designing and implementing Spring cloud services – service discovery, configuration, monitoring, security.
• Experience of working with Database systems – relational and NoSQL - Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra.
• Continuous integration: Build automation using Github, Maven, Jenkins, code quality analysis using SonarQube.
• Automation of functional, regression, performance testing using Selenium/ Cucumber.
• Experience of working with full stack platforms like Openshift, CloundFoundry.
• Understanding of key app-centric Cloud Foundry constructs: app, manifest, buildpack, service instance, binding, domain, route, environment variables.
• Experience of working in Agile methodology.
• Environment provisioning and configuration using Chef/ Puppet/ Ansible.