Job Responsibilities/Experience:

• Perform rapid POCs to experiment and build rails for the engineering team
• Support engineers and project managers in rapid development and deployment
• Actively participate in team and enterprise-wide architecture and engineering discussions.
• Introduce enterprise architectural paradigms and solutions into the portfolio.
• Drive both high level and detailed design and conduct design reviews
• Engage and work with cross-functional leaders to understand and help define business principles, goals and strategy within scope of responsibility.
• Communicate to senior leaders regarding strategy direction and changes.
• Mentor engineers and solution architects to ensure technology complexities are understood very clearly to implement solutions expeditiously with high quality

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8 or more years of strong hands-on experience in Java and experience with backend or middleware processing.
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing large scale cloud-native platforms with high resiliency, availability, and reliability.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field required; Advanced Degree preferred.
• Strong experience in applications with high throughput and performance.
• Experience with microservices architectures? And service mesh technologies is preferred.
• Strong written, verbal communications, presentation skills, leadership, problem solving and analytical skills.
• Proven collaboration skills along with the ability to influence without authority.
• Hands on experience in the following environments is preferred: Java, Go, Vertex, React, Envoy, GRPC, Protobuf, Postgres, Couchbase, Cassandra, Redis, Consul, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, GitHub Actions, Drools, Elastic Stack, Kafka, Spark, ML.

Deep knowledge and experience in areas of:

• Domain Expertise in one or more architectural specialties with broad exposure to relevant technology domains
• Versatility in API Design, API Lifecycle Management and Implementation, guiding data or information architecture
• Experience in creation of architecture standards, guidelines, and architecture decision records (ADRs)