Java Application Architect

Title: Java Application Architect

Location: Plano, TX or Bothell, WA (Onsite)

Duration: Longterm Contract

Job Description

Overall Purpose: Responsible for developing information architectures and data models.

Roles & Responsibilities: 1) Develops detailed functional design and prototypes (e.g., Oracle solution components, YODA). 2) Work with cross-functional teams to design and implement business requirements. 3) Work to resolve application issues, design and implement system enhancements, and document new user requirements. 4) Provide input for production-related issues; planning, design and execution of data conversion activities. 5) Act as a liaison between IT and the internal business customer. 6) Translate business objectives and processes into clear definitions of IT requirements, culminating in successful delivery.

Project Name

AT&T OmniChannel Platform Application Architecture.

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Responsibilities and Day-to-Day View

Responsibilities

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 Account Management

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