Product Architect

Job Description

Description:

C. Mack Solutions is looking for a technical lead to guide an agile team, overseeing every facet of application architecture, from user interface and APIs to microservices, databases, and infrastructure. In this role, you will direct the team in exploring innovative approaches to meet business requirements, incorporating new tools, development techniques, and testing strategies, while collaborating with multiple peers to craft effective solutions. Your leadership will be instrumental in driving Agile delivery, integrating SecDevOps practices, and shaping scalable Cloud architecture to support evolving business needs.

As a Product Architect, here's what you'll be doing:

Maintain sound understanding of enterprise and program level architecture

Liaison with business analysts to understand business needs and develop solutions that meet business needs and comply with enterprise and program level architecture and standards

Work with business analysts and scrum master to create implementation/development plan for new features/applications/solutions by developing epics and stories

Participate in Agile ceremonies by leading in all technical aspects, including leading the platform demos to the Product Owner and all applicable stakeholders

Collaborate with the SecDevOps team to onboarding new applications to the cloud-based infrastructure

Evangelize the developed solution to team members and work with team members to breakup stories into tasks and assist in completion of tasks in timely fashion

Motivating developers, testers and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns.

Keep up to date with industry trends and developments

Delegating tasks and ensuring all daily, sprint and release goals are achieved

Performs Architecture design and reviews as required, ensuring initiatives are aligned with future state

Designing solutions in a Multi-Tenant Cloud Architecture that will support legacy .NET, Java, and COTS client/server applications

Identifies risks, opportunities, compliance issues or other architectural concerns

Active participation in Agile Scrum sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases

Develop product teams technical skills through mentoring, coaching, and peer reviews.

Review Cybersecurity Assessments and Static Code Analysis of developed software to define remediation's and improve software quality.Requirements:

U.S. Citizenship is required. Candidate must be able to obtain CBP Public Trust clearance.

7+ years' overall experience in software development, including hands-on experience with programming, software design patterns, and architecture as a software architect, tech lead, or a senior developer.

A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.

Proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as Java, or JavaScript, and experience with various development frameworks and libraries, such as Angular, Spring, Hibernate.

Familiarity with design patterns, object-oriented programming (OOP), and other software design methodologies to create modular, scalable, and maintainable systems.

Professional experience operating within cross-functional teams and groups.

Knowledge of different software development processes, such as Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or DevOps, and their implications on architectural decisions.

Expertise in various architectural styles, such as client-server, microservices, event-driven, or layered architectures, and their trade-offs.

Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and understanding of distributed system concepts, including scalability, fault tolerance, and data consistency.

Knowledge of RESTful APIs and experience designing, implementing, and integrating APIs in a secure and efficient manner.

Familiarity with relational (e.g., Postgres) and NoSQL (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB) databases, data modeling, and data storage best practices.

Skills in analyzing and optimizing software performance, including profiling, benchmarking, and code optimization techniques.

Awareness of common software security vulnerabilities and strategies to mitigate them, such as input validation, secure coding practices, and encryption.

Strong interpersonal and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Ability and desire to stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in software architecture.

Taking high-level business requirements and mapping them to tasks for developers and testers

Designing technical solutions using established standards and breaking them down into units of work for your team

Working with business analysts to ensure coverage of requirements

Creating a roadmap to production for your product in a phased approach, considering legacy system decommissioning

Overseeing project construction, reviewing pull requests, ensuring test coverage, maintaining high quality code, mentoring developers, removing blockers, and presenting your team’s product to various stakeholders.

Hands-on development with our tech stack: Java (Spring), Angular, PostgreSQL, Amazon AWS

Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, CloudBees, or Bamboo

Systems design, systems development, systems integration, application design

Experience migrating legacy applications to microservices based architecture deployed to the cloud

Anticipating issues and formulating remedial actions

Collaborating with Developers, Program Managers, Testers, UI/UX, and Production Support Engineers to implement innovative technical solutions via iterative approach reducing time to delivery

Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills

Preferred Skills and Experience:

Deep experience in our tech stack: Java 17, Spring/Spring boot, Typescript, UI state management, ORM such as Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Amazon AWS

Having served in a technical lead role for one or more product teams.

Optional but beneficial certifications include AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.

Having contributed to development of enterprise architecture and standards and ability to enforce these standards

Experience in Continuous integration, Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) as well as SecDevOps processes and tools

Full-time