Principal Architect

Job Title: Principal Architect
Location: Baltimore, MD
Type: Contract to Hire
Duration: 6 months

**Hybrid -2 Days a week onsite**
**Baltimore, MD (preferred) but these locations are also fine: Evansville, IN, Charlotte, NC, Dallas, TX, Wilmington, DE, and NYC OMF offices are fine**

Job Description:
The client is seeking a Principal Engineer for Application Development to lead our ongoing technology transformation. The Principal Engineer will lead the development of technology solutions for OMF Servicing (logged in) experience, ensuring alignment with business strategies. This role will drive solution approaches which support OMF product teams across the organization. The Principal Engineer is a hands-on individual contributor, working directly with our leadership and development teams to coordinate, plan, develop and implement consistent and repeatable product solutions.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Provide enterprise and application architecture direction and guidance to technology and business partners that starts and ends with a focus on delivering actionable recommendations to peers and leadership, so they can adjust policies, products, projects, and solutions to achieve targeted business outcomes.
• Work with a variety of technologies to design and implement application solutions on Distributed/Legacy Systems, and various on-premises & cloud-native applications with clear concept of 12-factor app, Agile, BDD, Stateless design, APIs, Microservices, IBM zSeries/iSeries, Containerization etc.
• Provide technical knowledge and experience during the planning, execution, and management of our custom Core application solutions.
• Work with various teams on developing application development and architecture strategy, best practices & patterns, proof of concepts, as well as identifying opportunities to increase efficiency and resiliency throughout the organization.
• Prepare documentation and messaging necessary for technology to communicate strategies and plans to executive management.
• Participate in the development efforts around DevOps, Monitoring, Alerting, KPIs, and Testing as it relates to applications.
• Develop architectural prototypes to reduce risk from new solutions.
• Provide proper guidance to ensure applications are designed, tested, documented, implemented, enhanced, and maintained according to the enterprise standards and expected service quality.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Experience in software product, enterprise and mixed technology environment comprised of large scale, highly integrated systems.
• 10 years of full stack and/or middleware software development.
• Experience with CI/CD, distributed application architecture, architecture trade-off analysis (ATAM), test strategies, technology optimization, and strategic planning.
• 8 years working with SCRUM/Agile/iterative methods
• 7 years of performing solution and enterprise design with a focus on full stack application development in both a cloud native and on-prem environment
• 5 years hands-on cloud, AWS preferred
• 5 years architecting high impact, reliable, applications in a responsive design
• Direct, hands-on experience in these technologies; Java, Angular, Node JS, JavaScript, SQL, NoSQL, Restful API, GraphQL, message queues
• Bachelor's Degree computer science, hard sciences, or engineering is preferred, Master's degree is desirable or equivalent professional experience for either degree
• Direct, hands-on experience deploying and scaling applications in a containerized platform such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
• Experience with ELK stack and CI/CD pipeline running on GitLab, Urban Code Deploy is highly desired.
• Experience with IBM legacy systems (zSeries/iSeries)