Role: Technical Architect
Location: Auburn Hills MI (Day 1 Onsite)
Type: Contract
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 (Web Application Database Container Computing Platform 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 (designimplementation code review for quality and security development mentor technical teams)
- Experience leading technical troubleshooting including bug fix remediation and performance tuning
- Integrate comprehensive security principles into all phases of design and architecture
Technical Experience:
- Solid experience in Springboot Spring framework J2EE technologies event driven architecture microservices distributed architecture and design patterns. 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 and experience with API Management
- Extensive 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 desing development and API driven systems integration
- Hands on experience with CI/CD 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 Kuberbetes ELK Kafka etc.
- Experience with IBM Security Access Manager IBM App Connect Enterprise IBM WebSphere IBM API Connect and Data power
- Indepth understanding of the security architecture & design (Identity management Authentication and Authorization framework SAML OIDC/OAuth2 2FA mTLS secret and certificate management etc.) with handson experience
- Handson experience with Application Performance Management Web Site Performance Monitoring tools and performance tuning
- Experience with application usage analytics and dashboard reporting
- Good knowledge with NoSQL concepts and products
- Understanding and handson experience of GraphQL based API development with Apollo or similar products
- Handson experience with implementing robust logging and tracing implementation for end to end systems traceability
- Handson experience with code quality and coverage tools like Sonarqube.
- Willng 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.
Education Requirements:
- Bachelors degree required (Computer Science Engineering or related discipline). Masters degree in technical discipline preferred.