Job Code - Application Architect
Work Location - Plano TX 75075 (onsite 3 days per week)
Business Unit - DIGITAL
Positions Requested - 1
Hours per Day - 8
Hours per Week - 40
Total Hours - 1 year contract initially
US Citizen or Permanent Resident

Responsibilities and Day-to-Day View

• Collaborate with critical stakeholders to understand business needs, priority, and the quality of services to be created or enhanced. Drive alignment between application team implementation and solution to be compliant with Target State Architecture. Responsible for discovering and identifying any bottleneck gaps such as manual flows that can hinder the services or impact cycle time or cost and resolve them. Provide architectural governance and technical direction for the solution deployment strategy at the Product team level and architectural alignment across product teams. This includes:
• Designing, documenting and sharing the architectural vision across organizations
• Reviewing defined requirements of technical business analyst to ensure architecture is done according to standards / best practices
• Promoting adaptive design and engineering practices, ensure that common technology, design practices, and infrastructure are used and facilitate the reuse of code, components, and proven patterns; influence common modeling, design, and coding practices
• Collaboratively defining and integrating strategic technical roadmaps aligning to product roadmaps
• Monitoring the performance of architectural systems to ensure fluid interaction between components
• Laying out upgrade paths to architectural systems and software life cycle to ensure improved processes
• Defining Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) for common frameworks, libraries, resiliency, maintainability, automation, performance, logging/debugging, metrics, security, and other common areas of the platform and ensuring solutions align with established NFRs
• Ensure applications and services are leveraging building blocks whenever possible. Supports integrated solutions between legacy and target state solutions.

Qualifications

• 5 years of overall IT Industry experience (architecture, design, development, testing)
• 2 years of architecture experience in building scalable and optimal performing applications. Customer Ordering and Capture or eCommerce (Catalog, Offer Discovery, Pricing, Cart, Checkout and Order Processing) applications and Telecommunication experiences are preferred.
• Proven track record in setting and defining architectural solutions and designs aligned with target architecture; RESTful API development, microservices development, solid understanding of design impacts to performance, security, resiliency, and maintainability;
• 2 years of experience in build and CI/CD technologies: GitHub, Maven, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Nexus or Sonar
• Preferred experience in cloud technologies and platforms such as AWS, Azure, Mulesoft, Kafka
• Preferred data store technologies such as Redis, Cassandra, Solr, Cosmos
• Other required experience such as Java 11, SpringBoot 2.3.12, Swagger, JUnit 4 & 5, ISBUS, Dynatrace
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to present complex technical information in a clear manner to peers, developers, and senior leaders
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum/Kanban

Pay Range: $60 - $70/HR W2
The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits including medical, dental, vision as well as 401K contributions as well as any other PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by applicable state or localities where you reside or work.