Technical Architect

Business Integra; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SmartRecruiters, Inc. is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to develop and implement architecture strategies for complex applications in an Agile environment.

The role collaborates with product and engineering teams to align technology choices with business goals. The candidate should have 10+ years designing and delivering large systems, deep expertise in Java and .NET, and strong architectural modeling and industry trend analysis skills.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in multiple enterprise technologies and architectures.
• Experience with Java and .NET, varied service interaction styles, messaging, and enterprise databases.
• Mastery of architectural skills within enterprise standards, including blueprints and patterns.
• Ability to model problems with use cases, scenarios, prototypes, benchmarking and performance modeling.
• Experience applying architecture assessment methodologies and industry trend analysis.
• 10+ years designing, implementing and delivering large, complex systems.
• Financial industry experience is a plus.
• Experience designing systems involving services, messaging, integration, and event-driven capabilities.
• Knowledge of Java middle-tier frameworks and platforms is preferred.
• Functional programming and related platforms are a plus.
• Distributed caches and in-memory data grids are a plus.
• Big Data experience with Hadoop or Spark is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Translates business vision into architectural strategies for large projects and applications.
• Drives adoption of enterprise standards and best practices; promotes changes when necessary.
• Develops and oversees architecture standards; collaborates with engineering and product teams.
• Leads POCs to evaluate technical and business benefits.
• Addresses functional and quality goals during design activities.
• Participates in critical problem solving and advanced troubleshooting.

Skills

Java

.NET

Service-oriented

Event-driven

Big Data

Distributed caches

Hadoop/Spark

Job description

Duration: 6+ Months, long term potential

Role Summary

This role is responsible for the development and implementation of technology architecture for complex applications and solutions in a challenging business domain. Works directly with product and engineering teams in an Agile environment.

Responsibilities Include:

• Translates and incorporates business vision and strategy to best fit architectural strategy recommendations for very large projects and applications.
• Drives adoption of enterprise standards and best practices. Promotes changes in process, standards, or technologies when necessary.
• Develops, communicates, and oversees implementation of architecture and technology standards. Works directly with engineering and product teams. Participates in management and executive product and architectural discussions.
• Anticipates applicability of major industry trends in the large project or business unit level and implements plans. Develops or executes Proof of Concepts (POC’s) to assess technical and business benefits.
• Participates in critical problem solving and advanced troubleshooting as necessary.
• Effectively addresses functional and quality goals of systems during design activities. Applies appropriate approaches to assessing tradeoffs among architectural goals.

Specific Knowledge/Skills/Experience:

• Proficiency in multiple enterprise technologies, architectural styles, and techniques. Ability to quickly acquire skills. Experience with Java, .NET, varied service interaction styles, messaging, and enterprise databases.
• Knowledge and mastery of multiple architectural skills within enterprise standards, including frameworks, blueprints, and architecture patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to manage conceptual and abstract problem domains.
• Use of modeling techniques – such as use case, scenario modeling, prototyping, benchmarking, and performance modeling – to describe the problem space, to size the solution and to validate that the proposed architecture addresses the business requirements.
• Expertise in applying architecture assessment methodologies.
• Industry and technology trend analysis.
• 10+ years experience in designing, implementing and delivering large complex systems
• Financial Industry experience a plus.
• Experience designing systems involving services, messaging, integration, and event-driven capabilities required.
• Knowledge of Java Middle-Tier frameworks and platforms preferred.
• Functional programming and related platform experience is a plus.
• Distributed caches and in-memory data grids a plus.
• Hadoop, Spark, or other “Big Data” experience a plus.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.