Job Description

Position : Software Architect...
Location : Atlanta GA / Remote till covid
Duration : long term
Notes :
Candidates will be working with teams in India AND Europe so the manager has ask that the candidates be able to start work at 5AM EST (so candidates should sit in the eastern time zone so that they are not up too early)
There will be 2 video technical interviews and one video personality interview

Required Skills :
AWS with EKS, Elastic Search, Kafka, Java, Spring Boot
I am looking for someone who understands how the AWS ecosystem works and set up the application
In this role this person will be helping to manage the project of transitioning the technology stack into AWS
Need to understand AWS Cloud Management capabilities

Role Summary/Purpose
Our client's Digital Solutions, Network and Logistics team is working upon customer focused state-of-the-art software solutions targeted to optimize Port ecosystem, helping the supply chain monitor and respond to dynamic conditions, align people and resources, and proactively communicate across functions – enabling maximum port throughput and delivery performance. We are looking to hire Sr. Staff Software Architect to help build the architectural capability and roadmap for software products helping achieve desired outcomes for our customers. This is a strategic role which defines the technology roadmap for Port Optimizer portal and data aggregation platform for global customers.

Essential Responsibilities

This role will provide technical and architectural leadership.
Should have the organizational skills to aid the business in developing global products cutting across technologies and deployment models.
Responsible for evaluating emerging & established technologies against product requirements and for delivering platform/ product solutions along with tools and processes to support robust designs.
Lead and coordinate the domain, technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction across the product portfolio or product line.
Research and evaluate complex software designs against requirements.
Be a technology advocate in business and customer interactions.
Develop and define software technology roadmaps in collaboration with senior engineering, product management, peer architecture groups, service leaders.
Ability to Use technology roadmaps and technical knowledge to drive and influence organizational and business strategy.
Communicate technology strategy in a simple, effective and understandable manner to the business leaders and engineers.
Mentor and develop team members and help them grow technically on emerging technology trends as well as domain
Have ability to innovate and lead strategic planning for upcoming product roadmap items ahead of engineering teams

Qualifications/Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in "STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
A minimum of 12 years of technical experience along with established leadership credentials across domains/products
Significant experience working on application architecture in an engineering, design and architecture capacity. Proficiency in multiple enterprise technologies, architectural styles, and containerization techniques.
Expert knowledge and experience in Java, microservices , event driven architecture, frameworks, various open source stacks, and relational databases.
Experience in cloud technologies and practices, building applications using services such as AWS EKS, Lambda, EMR, CloudFormation and MSK, and a well-grounded knowledge of engineering and continuous delivery practices.
Passionate about technology and delivering solutions for difficult and intricate problems. Current on functional and reactive programming, microservices
Experience with event driven architectures, caching, scale-out architectures, designing systems for high throughput, low latency, managing conflation, high availability and fault tolerance
Understanding of security compliance, managed services in cloud-based workloads.
Strong understanding and experience building enterprise grade cloud/hosted applications using varied technology stack and commercialization of the same
Experience working as part of teams following Agile Scrum methodology
Strong oral and written communication skills.

Desired Characteristics

Technical Expertise:

Participates in domain technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction aligning with business goals.
Gathers and analyzes data and develops architectural requirements at project level, aligning architectural requirements with software development strategy.
Reviews exceptions and makes recommendations to architectural standards at a domain level.
Attention to detail and ability to work independently toward timely completion of a variety of assignments
Ability to develop unique concepts/solutions for complex products

Leadership:

• Meets with project leaders and software development leaders to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with project goals and requirements.
• Ensures understanding of issues and presents clear rationale.

Personal Attributes:

• Applies values, business strategy, policies, precedent, and experience to make complex decisions with uncertain consequences.
• Challenges conventional thinking and traditional ways of operating and invites stakeholders to identify issues and opportunities.
• Takes a systems perspective that inter-relates internal and external factors for planning. Envisions compares multiple potential medium range operational futures
Atlanta GA USA

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