Software Solution Architect-Payments (4393)

Flexion Inc. a Madison, WI based IT Consulting and Services firm is looking for a Software Solution Architect to work on a long-term consulting project. The client for this position is based in Madison, WI. This is a hybrid position with 10 days of work per month to be done in office in Madison, WI or Boston, MA.

This position collaborates with others in the division to provide and maintain applications to meet business needs. Responsible for design and development for complex and/or large-scale business solutions, providing technical guidance and leadership for specific applications.

Primary Duties

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  Provides expertise during the initial phases of the project including estimating resources, skill requirements, time requirements, identifying tools and technologies, participating in proof of concepts, etc.

  
  


• Analyzes high level system specifications, business requirements and/or use cases.


• Converts information into the appropriate level specifications and system design plan for the development team


• Understands and identifies system dependencies.


• Consults with others to validate complex design decisions. Provides advanced coding expertise to mitigate high risk features or technical challenges.


• Provides appropriate documentation for design decisions, estimating assumptions, code modules, and performance metrics as required by organization standards.


• Defines, conducts, mentors others, and/or participates in testing (i.e. unit, system integration). Prepares, leads and/or participates in development walkthroughs.


• Collaborates with others regarding effectiveness of systems flow, data usage and manual or automated processes to verify requirements.

Specialized Knowledge & Skills Requirements

* Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service

* Demonstrated Lead experience with hands on development in Java and AWS(Google Cloud Platform or AZURE)

* Demonstrated experience analyzing and understanding complex software/systems.

* Demonstrated experience communicating technical information.

* Demonstrated experience developing different solution-delivery and design approaches and solutions to customers.

* Demonstrated experience developing complex software/systems using one or more programming language.

* Demonstrated experience analyzing and estimating project size and work efforts for software solutions.

* Demonstrated experience providing technical guidance and leadership to less experienced staff.

* Extensive knowledge and understanding of software development and design standards and methodologies.

* Extensive knowledge and understanding of infrastructure technologies, operating systems, and the interconnectivity between

infrastructure platforms and software tools.

* Extensive knowledge and understanding of systems development life cycle (SDLC).

* Solid knowledge and understanding of application architecture and design alternatives.

*5 years of hands-on experience crafting and developing scalable, high-performing, and fault-tolerant applications for large

enterprises

* 3 years of experience in the Payments domain, with a good understanding of payment processing, wallet management and

integrating with 3rd party payment processors

* Expertise in measuring, evaluating, and tuning application performance

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  Own and operationalize the critical metrics for Payments, building industry leading telemetry/logging to resolve state and health

  
  

for the applications you own

* Lead research and initiatives for cloud native designs and implementation within public clouds, primarily AWS

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  Build enterprise architecture and influence coding standards (scalable, performant, readable, and tested code) and ensure your

  
  

code reviews set the bar for the rest of the team

* Strong experience in Java and Spring Framework.

* Demonstrated experience in Git/GitLab for source code

The hourly pay rate for this position is in the $70-80/hr range.

Equal Employment Opportunity