Principal Application Architect

  • Full-time

Company Description

Shipping Company

Job Description

About the Role

Salary up to $180K plus 10% bonus and benefits

Hybrid Role

2 In 3 Remote

Near Sky Harbor Airport

 

The Principal Applications Architect will bring a balance of technology and business strategy focus to company.

What you’ll do:

  • Specialize in one or more business verticals of company to provide domain specific solutions.
  • Work with the project teams to recommend the architecture approach for applications and define in an increasing level of detail as the project progresses.
  • Lead design review process and ensure recommendations made are understood by recipients and are monitored during the project life cycle.
  • Research, analyze and recommend new technologies, frameworks, processes, and tools to further company’s technology architecture.
  • Be able to explain and educate complex solutions and integrations in a clear and articulate manner, using illustrative techniques (e.g., UML diagrams) as necessary.
  • Develop Proof of Concepts that may include, analysis of problem, finding an optimal solution, design, development, and documentation.
  • Contribute to the troubleshooting of difficult application production issues including performance tuning, memory management, database or other environment and architecture related issues.
  • Provide thought leadership by educating and sharing best practices, building deep relationships with organization leaders, conducting brown bag sessions, mentoring junior team members, and writing white papers.
  • Collaborate with various company teams to define application standards, conventions, and best practices.
  • Report and escalate to senior management as needed.
  • Execute other job duties as assigned.

You have these skills:

  • Critical thinking ability to analyze and solve complex problems.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and can communicate effectively at all levels - with the team, peers and with senior management of the company.
  • Comfortable in situations that are ambiguous and can juggle between multiple tasks and rapidly changing priorities.

And these qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in technology related field.
  • Ten (10) years of experience in relevant software and IT related projects.
  • Four (4) years of experience performing as a full-time architect.
  • Possess a high degree of technical expertise with foundational architectural principles in building Java and cloud based distributed systems.
  • Expertise in application development using the following technologies:
    • Java EE
    • Spring boot
    • Application servers (e.g. Tomcat, JBoss)
    • Messaging (e.g. Active MQ, JBoss messaging)
    • Database technologies (RDBMS and NoSQL DBs)
    • Linux/Unix
    • Cloud computing (AWS experience preferred)
  • Excellent grasp of application security concerns and remediation techniques.
  • Knowledge of networking, infrastructure, and storage components.
  • Well-rounded technical background in current web and micro-service technologies.
  • Experience working with business users in defining processes and translating those to available solutions.
  • This is a hybrid position

 

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

 

Thank You
Arnold Avila
Xceed Search
(480) 419-1311
http://www.xceedsearch.com

 

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