Software Architect - Java

• Collaborate with Product Owners/BA's in refinement and defining user stories
• Follow and coach best practices for software development
• Design, develop, maintain and/or work with complex microservices that meet requirements, provide high quality in a high performance environment
• Contributes to complex application architectures and technical alternatives to meet functional requirements working with the development team and System, Software, and Solution architects
• Contributes to and leads technical documentation development for application designs
• Ability to analyse functional issues, performance issues, production components and configurations, Triaging/troubleshooting of issues across dev, QA, and production environments
• Work as a multi-skilled professional practicing Agile in a SCRUM methodology
• Taking part in continuous improvement through sharing of knowledge and coaching within the team
  

Required Education And Experience

• Technical College Degree, Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science or Information Technology or equivalent
• A Minimum of 12 years working experience developing in Java (21+) & Spring Boot. Working experience in Front-End development, including working with Angular is advantageous.
• Good to know - JPA/Hibernate, Liquibase, OpenAPI
• Advanced knowledge developing Event Driven Architecture, Domain Driven Design, REST APIs and micro-services.
• Experience with the following technologies Kubernetes, Kafka (or similar MQ system), Keycloak
• Experience developing unit and automated tests.
• Working knowledge of JUnit and Cucumber (BDD)
• API Testing Postman, SoapUI (at least one is required)
• Experience in working with GIT, SVN or other distributed source control systems
• Experience in working with either Maven or Gradle build tools
• Working knowledge and experience in using Docker and Kubernetes clusters
• Practical use of JSON and message exchange formats

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of developing/deployment of applications within cloud systems (Azure, AWS, Rancher, etc.)
• Working experience with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.)
• Knowledge and experience in assisting in construction of CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with DevOps including integration of test automation systems

Knowledge-Skills-Abilities (Competencies)

• Effective communication skills (written and verbal)
• Good interpersonal skills (work well within a team)
• Be able to contribute to the onboarding process of additional team members
• Ability to work in a fast-paced operational environment with competing priorities and multiple stakeholders
• Strong analytical abilities, and able to put forward recommendations.
• Able to work unsupervised, take initiative and resolve issues.