What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Architect position at West Advanced Technologies?
Technical Architect
Downey, CA
12 months
Description :
A Technical Architect will serve as the manager of complex technology implementations, with an eye toward constant reengineering and refactoring to ensure the simplest and most elegant system possible to accomplish the desired need; understand how to maximize leverage of the open source community to deploy systems on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers; be comfortable sharing knowledge across a multi-disciplinary team and working within various methodologies; and be a full partner in the determination of vision, objectives, and success criteria. The Technical Architect will architect the overall system by using prototyping and proof of concepts, which may include : modern programming languages (e.g., Ruby, Python, Node.js) and web frameworks (e.g., Django, Rails), modern front-end web programming techniques (e.g., HTML5, CSS3, RESTful APIs) and frameworks (e.g., Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery), relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL), and "NoSQL" databases (e.g., Cassandra, MongoDB), automated configuration management (e.g., Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt), continuous integration / deployment, and continuous monitoring solutions; use version control systems (e.g., Git and GitHub); ensure strategic alignment of technical design and architecture to meet business growth and direction, and stay on top of emerging technologies; decompose business and system architecture to support clean-interface multi-team development; develop product roadmaps, backlogs, and measurable success criteria, and write user stories (i.e., can establish a path to delivery for breaking down stories) and clearly communicate and work with stakeholders at every level.
Skills Required :
The Technical Architect will possess knowledge and experience in analyses and development of conceptual designs and detail designs; developing JBOSS Messaging and connectivity with Spring-JMS connectivity; designing DB schema as per the requirements and in sync with the old system; implementing the daily and weekly jobs that interact with external interfaces; coordinating with business stakeholders to understand their requirements; communicate with cross-divisional personnel at both team and executive levels to understand performance measurement methodologies; and direct team members in compiling business requirements and executing project milestones.
Must have a minimum of eight (8) years of experience in systems development, analysis, programming or testing.
Bachelor's degree in an IT-related or Engineering field. Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis.
Skills Preferred :
Java, J2EE (JDBC, Servlets, JSP, AJAX, Hibernate, Spring, Web services) - Versata framework programming - BIRT forms development - Mobile application development using bootstrap - Versata framework development - Apigee API Management - Ionic - Angular - COBOL Development
Utilize Versata framework - Develop applications on the Websphere platform - Familiarity with SOAP / REST services - Documentum repository - Experience with working on enterprise software for Human Resource Management and / or Accounting / Procurement systems - Utilize Agile mythologies - Familiarity with Project Management tools (i.e., JIRA) - Knowledge of using ticket management systems (i.e., Cherwell Service Management) - BitBucket, Git, SQL, and BeyondCompare - BIRT forms development - Amazon Web Services
Regards
Sunil Damagalla
West Advanced Technologies, Inc
E : sunil.d@wati.com D : 279-666-5837
