Java Architect

Position: Java Architect

Location: Irving, TX

Mode: Hybrid

Java Architect Responsibilities:

• Work closely with project leads, peer engineers, and customers to develop and implement software solutions meeting customer’s requirements and timeline.
• Create technical architecture & design for software applications and systems: web applications, middle tier microservices, and backends consisting of persistence stores as well as integration endpoints.
• Clearly communicate problem analysis and design tradeoffs to clients
• Work closely with development teams to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain the Java platform
• Provide technical leadership for application architecture, technical design, and programming
• Provide technical leadership for all Java environment areas including code reviews, build automation, source control, and configuration management
• Work closely with web developers to develop internal tools and platforms for the build process
• Experience designing and coding high-performance, scalable, reusable, enterprise Java applications
• Experience designing RESTful web services
• Experience designing, implementing, and integrating Spring and/or Spring Boot
• Experience in writing unit tests and documentation

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience coding, designing, and delivering complex software solutions
• Experience evaluating competing design approaches and making effective trade-offs in design and implementation
• Hand-on experience across the full application stack with one or more in each of the following areas: UI (JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular, Vue, jQuery); API (Java, Spring, C#, .NET, Node.js); Databases (SQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Cloud-Managed Databases); Cloud (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud); DevOps (Jenkins, Packer, Azure DevOps, Circle CI, Travis)
• Experience with current testing methodologies, test first development, BDD, unit and functional testing and one or more frameworks (e.g., JUnit, NUnit, MSTest, Karma, Selenium)
• Expertise in engineering best practices such as design patterns, customer-centric design, test-driven development, refactoring, code review, continuous integration, building highly scalable applications, application security, performance optimization.
• Effective communication to explain complex ideas so that they are easily understood by both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to work under minimal supervision, navigate ambiguous environments and quickly adapt to change.