Sr. Java Lead - NV, USA

Photon; Nevada (IA); On-site; USD 33,000 - 118,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Vision benefits

Dental benefits

401k plan

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Independent contractor option

Job summary

Photon is seeking a seasoned Solution Architect to define technology vision and strategy for a key domain. You will be the single point of contact between IT and the business, coordinating design, planning and execution with stakeholders across the organization.

Lead development teams, shape roadmaps with Product and Architecture peers, and present complex proposals to technical and non-technical audiences. Deep AWS, microservices, Java/Spring, SQL/NoSQL, and Kafka expertise required.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of solution architecture experience with design of APIs and epics/stories for developers.
• Lead experience: 5+ years as lead.
• Strong AWS, Java/Spring, SQL/NoSQL, and Kafka proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Define technology vision and strategy for a solution or domain, acting as SPOC between IT and business.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to design solution for business capability.
• Shape product roadmap and delivery with Product/Engineering Architects.
• Present complex proposals to technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Solution architecture

Microservice design

AGILE/Lean

AWS services

Java/Spring

SQL/NoSQL

Kafka

DevOps/CI-CD

Leadership

Communication

Tools

OpenShift

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Compensation, Benefits And Duration

Minimum Compensation: USD 33,000

Greetings Everyone

Who are we?

For the past 20 years, we have powered many Digital Experiences for the Fortune 500. Since 1999, we have grown from a few people to more than 4000 team members across the globe that are engaged in various Digital Modernization. For a brief 1 minute video about us, you can check https://youtu.be/uJWBWQZEA6o.

What will you do?

• Build a technology vision and strategy for a solution or business domain. Using a holistic approach, conducts solution analysis, design, planning, and implementation for the successful development and execution of strategy. Act as the single point of contact (SPOC) between IT and the business for the solution.
• Collaborate with technology and business stakeholders to develop a solution design for an assigned business capability.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering Managers and other Architects in shaping and aligning product roadmap and delivery of new features.
• Present complex technical proposals to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Conduct POC as needed to evaluate new technologies and approaches.
• Lead the development team during solution implementation, translating business requirements into technical language.
• We need to effectively communicate with the Data Architect for table design. Additionally, we need to provide a contract for the data team to create the table design
• Work across multiple projects with a variety of individuals and groups.
• Promote re-use through inner sourcing opportunities.
• Recognize industry technology trends and emerging technologies, understanding how they apply to and drive adoption into organization.
• Actively promote the mission of the company within the organization
• Ability to collaborate effectively and follow up to ensure achievement of deadlines, outcomes, and results.
• Demonstrate company core values of excellence, ownership, collaboration, and integrity.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills in a global organization
• Strong collaborative approach to problem solving

What are we looking for?

• 5-7 years of solution architecture experience: creating solution architecture and high-level design documents, solution decomposition into domains, API design, creating epics and stories for developers, managing implementation team. Creating contract document for data team
• Microservice design experience, including REST based microservice API.
• Deep experience in AGILE/Lean development methodologies
• Excellent knowledge and strong experience with AWS services.
• Good knowledge of containerization tools and technologies (RedHat OpenShift Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong proficiency with Java and Java frameworks (e.g.: Spring, Springboot), SQL and NoSQL DBMS (e.g.: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB), procedural and object-oriented development
• Strong proficiency in Kafka message queue
• Good understanding of DevOps processes and CI/CD tools.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and project management skills
• Must have 5+ years of experience as lead.

Compensation, Benefits And Duration

Minimum Compensation: USD 33,000

Maximum Compensation: USD 118,000

Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.

Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full-time employees.

This position is also available for independent contractors

No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post