What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Architect. position at Pi-Square Technologies LLC?
Job Requirements
Minimum of 10 years' experience in advanced technologies including a minimum of 5 years as a technical architect
Minimum 7 years' experience in development including a minimum of 3 years leading development resources
Experience in the concepts and methodologies of enterprise architecture
Deep knowledge of information technologies (Database, Business Intelligence, Infrastructure, Networks, Web & Integration software)
Broad understanding of technologies and has experience in implementation methodologies, software development life cycle process, and project management
Excellent planning and organization, project management and time management skills (particularly in delivery effort estimation and project scheduling)
Strong problem solving and negotiation abilities
Ability to inform, educate and influence managers and employees to support goals and initiatives
Exceptional written, verbal and presentation skills are necessary to effectively convey goals and initiatives to team and management
Knowledge of the vendor market and possess existing relationships
Experience with web application, web service and mobile application architecture and design
Strong API and data integration background
Detail design background based on technologies listed under technical experience
Strong Automotive OEM experience
Extensive background in designing architectural solutions for large complex programs which results in representation in front of Architecture Review Board (e.g. logical & physical architectures, data classifications / protections, etc.)
Extensive background in leading large and complex development initiatives
Proven technical leadership experience, leading application detailed design and development (apply proper design patterns and adhere to Client architecture and design principles, document design, review design by vendors, support QA)
Proven experience leading development teams (design-implementation, code review for quality and security, development mentor technical teams)
Experience leading technical troubleshooting including bug fix remediation and performance tuning
Integrate comprehensive security principals into all phases of design and architecture
Technical Experience
Solid experience in Springboot, Spring framework, J2EE technologies, event driven architecture and systems integration
Solid experience in modelling architecture and design with expertise of at least one of the frameworks (C4 model, UML, Archimate and Arc42 etc.)
Strong experience in designing and implementing Restful APIs using Spring Framework / Spring Boot.
Strong experience architecting and designing modern business facing and consumer facing web applications including Single Page Applications using responsive design concept with Angular or React etc.
Solid experience in cloud based application design, development and API driven systems integration
Experience with Continuous Integration Tools (SVN / Github / Maven / Jenkins / JIRA)
Experience with cloud native application design and development with main stream platforms and technologies
Hands on experience with cloud technologies including AWS, GCP, Openshift, Kubernetes, ELK, Kafka, Kong etc.
Experience with IBM Security Access Manager, IBM Integration Bus, IBM WebSphere, IBM API Connect and Data power
Security architecture design (Identity management, Authentication and Authorization framework, SAML, OIDC / OAuth2, mTLS, secret and certificate management etc.)
Experience with Application Performance Management and Web Site Performance Monitoring tools.
Experience with application usage analytics and dashboard reporting
Good knowledge with NoSQL concepts and products
Deep understanding with hands-on experience on modern security frameworks and specifications (Oauth2, OIDC, 2FA etc).
Understanding and hands-on experience of GraphQL based API development with Apollo or similar products
Thorough understanding and experience of event driven architecture, micro services, distributed architecture and design patterns
Experience dealing with financial system integrations, transaction management etc
Through understanding and hands-on experience with implementing robust logging and tracing implementation for end to end systems traceability
Knowledge and understanding of CI / CD process and tools (like Jenkins)
Solid experience with code quality and coverage tools like Sonarqube.
Extensive experience in architecting consumer facing web applications which is adaptable to dynamic and fast changing business needs
Willing and ready to get hands on code development with dev team for developing and troubleshooting, doing quick proof of concepts for exploring new solutions, products etc.
Experienced in working with business / product team to discuss, analyze, understand and negotiate business requirements, being able to explain to business about the technical considerations and associated implications on the user journey / experience / requirements.
Unique skills
Experience with Feature Hub, Adobe Experience Management, Apollo GraphQL Gateway
Pi-square technologies is a Michigan (USA) Headquartered Automotive Embedded Engineering Services company, Synergy Partner for major OEMs and Tier 1s and their implementation partners in Automotive Embedded Product Development, Projects, Requirements Analysis, Software Design, Software Implementation, Efficient Build, Release Process, and turnkey software V & V Services. We have more than 20 years of industry expertise with specialization in the latest cutting-edge automotive technologies such as Infotainment, connected vehicles, Cyber security, OTA, and Advanced Safety / Body electronics.
