Software Architect

OVERALL PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:

Alstom are now looking for the microservices application software architect, with a strong experience in developing, designing, and deploying microservices to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for migrating legacy services to a container-based microservices model using modern technologies, designing, developing, and maintaining the microservices architecture, and ensuring its quality and scalability. Additionally, the candidate will work closely with development teams to provide technical leadership, propose best practices, and recommend new technologies to optimize our system architecture.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work collaboratively with development teams to migrate legacy services to a container-based microservices architecture.
• Design, develop and refactor microservices leveraging Kubernetes, Istio, and ingresses.
• Utilize message queues such as RabbitMQ or Kafka for the integration between services.
• Design and develop well-structured, performant APIs and databases for the microservices.
• Propose and implement software and system architectures and best practices for software development.
• Stay up-to-date with new technologies, frameworks, and libraries for microservices development and contribute to the continuous improvement of the architecture and development processes.
• Support application performance tuning, troubleshooting, and system monitoring tools.
• Contribute to program plans, timelines, and estimates and communicate with stakeholders effectively.

Qualifications & Skills:

EDUCATION

• University background: Bachelors/Masters degree in computer science & information systems or related engineering.

BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES:

• Outstanding Technical leader with proven hands on in developing high performant scalable microservices.
• Capability to guide and support other developers.
• Be Innovative and be aligned to new product development technologies and methods.
• Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting
• Proven capabilities with worldwide teams
• Team Player with prior experience in working with European customer is not mandatory but preferable.
• Passionate about staying current with new technologies and making recommendations for adoption where appropriate

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES & EXPERIENCE

• 8 to 10 years in IT and/or digital companies developing microservices and migrating legacy services to container-based models
• Excellent understanding of Python/Java.
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems
• Ability to define modern software architectures leveraging proper documentation.
• Deep understanding of software engineering best practices, including Agile methodologies, CI/CD, testing, and code quality standards.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Kubernetes, istio, ingresses
• Strong experience in message queues such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.
• Strong knowledge of databases and data architectures, especially SQL and NoSQL databases like elasticsearch, postgres
• Experience with Azure cloud-based provisioning and deployment
• Experience in cloud technologies & tools, Service Models, and Deployment Models
• Experience working with data engineering and data science teams and data platforms is a plus but not mandatory.