Senior Architect

Job Role:

Experience:

As a Technical Architect, you will provide thought architecture, technology and solution design leadership to our product, business, and technology teams, in both internal initiatives and client-facing engagements.

You will lead and own technical design and development with hands-on on programming skills on Java, Spring, Spring boot, Spring Microservices, Spring JPA.

You’ll align with the business and technology teams to lead the architecture and design efforts throughout sales and implementation lifecycles, supporting client technical discussions, design, development and testing activities, promoting the adoption of corporate IT standards and policies, and raising risks, issues and concerns to stakeholders.

What You Will Do:

• Provide technical architecture design and guidance for both internal and client facing implementations and development initiatives.
• Articulate and position the benefits and technical aspects of Fiserv solutions to business and technical audiences.
• Lead architectural discussions and design workshops with customers to determine business, technical and architecture requirements. Translate business strategies into target architectures and implementation timelines.
• Elaborate solution proposals considering functional/technical aspects and implementation effort/timeframe estimates.
• Create technical specification, architecture and technical design documents.
• Review technical solutions to ensure alignment to the architectural vision and adherence to compliance and enterprise IT standards. Ensure all requirements are addresses in the technical solution.
• Technical design, Coding and Unit Testing of the code written as per the program standards and guidelines.
• Adhere the processes followed for development in the program.
• Mentor/train existing and new team members.
• Identify and collaborate with all necessary stakeholders in order to come to terms or reach agreement in accordance with defined project goals with little to no assistance.
• Track progress against assigned tasks, report status, and proactively identify issues to the Product Owners, Architects and management team.
• Work successfully in a team environment and demonstrate a willingness to help team members in achieving their project goals if required.
• Ownership and accountability for delivering assigned tasks and deliverables within the established schedule.
• Report to the Project Manager on the status and progress of work and accountable to the timely completion with quality.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams to define/review the physical architecture of the solutions.
• Collaborate with build and support teams in analyzing and resolving complex issues.
• Learn and analyze current industry and technology trends that can provide benefits to our business and clients.
• You will be conducting development activities using stringent source code control procedures.
• Developing estimates for design, development, and unit testing of application functionality for the assignment.
• Learning the best practices and the methodology used in the program and adhere to the standards.

What You Will Need to Have:

• Minimum of 15-20 years of software development experience
• Lead and own technical design and development
• Hands-on skills required -
• Microservices based Architecture and integration
• Strong knowledge of Java technologies - Spring, Spring boot, Spring Microservices, Spring JPA
• Full stack development experience with polyglot solutions; specially Java, Groovy, Kafka.
• Java leading development of high-volume enterprise systems
• RESTFul APIs, Spring, Spring Boot, Cloud-Based technologies and Micro-services
• Web technologies such as HTML5, CSS, Modular design, Angular (12 & above) or React and open source JS framework.
• Application development processes, DevOps, Agile methodologies and CI/CD tools/best-practices
• Working within a Linux computing environment, and use of command line tools including knowledge of shell/Python scripting for automating common tasks
• Should have good understanding of Framework and Design Patterns and able to understand complex Architectural aspects.
• Experience integrating to third party applications.
• Database systems, SQL, Hibernate, data mapping
• Enterprise messaging (eg. Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Digital Cloud Native Architecture (Serverless, AWS, Azure)
• Infrastructure concepts such as load balancing, traffic management, DMZs etc
• Familiarity with JIRA and clear understanding of how Git works.
• Profound understanding of best practices regarding system security measures
• Strong drive towards results with ability to see things through from end-end

We are looking for tech-savvy individuals with excellent written and verbal communication skills, the ability to independently execute work tasks in a rapidly changing and fast-paced environment, and proven experience of building and implementing enterprise-grade solutions.