Technical Architect (Java)

Technical Architect

Auburn Hills, MI 48326 (Hybrid)

12 Months Contract

Education and Years of Experience:

Bachelor's degree required (Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline). Master’s degree in technical discipline preferred.

Minimum of 15 years experience in advanced technologies including a minimum of 5+ years as a technical architect

Minimum 12 years’ experience in development including a minimum of 8+ years leading development resources

Required and Desired Skills/Certifications:

Solid experience in working with business/product team to discuss, analyze, understand and negotiate business requirements, being able to explain to business about the technical considerations and associated implications on the user journey/experience/requirements

Solid experience in Springboot, Spring framework, J2EE technologies, event driven architecture, microservices, distributed architecture and design patterns.

Solid experience in modelling architecture and design with expertise of at least one of the frameworks (C4 model, UML, Archimate and Arc42 etc.)

Strong experience in designing and implementing Restful APIs using Spring Framework/Spring Boot and experience with API Management

Extensive experience architecting and designing modern business facing and consumer facing web applications including Single Page Applications using responsive design concept with Angular or React etc.

Solid experience in cloud based application desing, development and API driven systems integration

Hands on experience with CI/CD Tools (SVN/Github/Maven/Jenkins/JIRA)

Experience with cloud native application design and development with main stream platforms and technologies

Hands on experience with cloud technologies including AWS, GCP, Openshift, Kuberbetes, ELK etc.

Experience with queueing and streaming technologies including IBM MQ, Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT etc.

Experience with IBM Security Access Manager, IBM App Connect Enterprise, IBM WebSphere, IBM API Connect and Data power

In-depth understanding of the security architecture & design (Identity management, Authentication and Authorization framework, SAML, OIDC/OAuth2, 2FA, mTLS, secret and certificate management etc.) and hands-on experience

Hands on experience with Application Performance Management, Web Site Performance Monitoring tools and performance tuning

Experience with application usage analytics and dashboard reporting

Good experience with NoSQL concepts and products

Good experience with GraphQL based API development with Apollo or similar products

Hands on experience with implementing robust logging and tracing implementation for end to end systems observability and tracebility

Handson experience with code quality and coverage tools like Sonarqube.

Willng and ready to get hands on code development with dev team for developing and troubleshooting, doing quick proof of concepts for exploring new solutions, products etc.