Working Style : Hybrid (2-3 Days at the office)
Location: https://share.google/eZHMCTX1x9JEkc845
Position Overview: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Software Solution Architect with a strong background in database technologies, coding languages, and extensive experience in the retail domain. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in designing and implementing complex software solutions. As a Solution Architect, you will be responsible for leading the architecture and design efforts, providing technical expertise, and ensuring the successful delivery of innovative and scalable solutions within the retail domain.
- Technical Leadership: Provide guidance and leadership to the development team in Java best practices and design patterns.
- Architecture and Design: Lead the design of software architecture and ensure Java solutions meet project requirements. Responsible for anticipating and identifying technical impediments and solving them with architecture design, technology choices, or prioritization.
- Code Reviews: Oversee code reviews, maintain code quality, and mentor team members.
- Performance Optimization: Optimize Java applications for performance, scalability, and efficiency.
- Team Collaboration: Foster teamwork, facilitate communication, and encourage knowledge sharing among team members.
- Mentoring and Training: Mentors and coaches the technical team, specifically with code reviews, pair programming, etc.
- Client/Stakeholder Communication: Interact with clients or stakeholders, provide technical insights, and offer solutions to meet project goals.
- Works with the Product Owner to align the roadmap with strengths and opportunities within the existing architecture.
- Co-creates engineering practices, coding style guidelines, testing approach, etc.
- Constantly looking for better ways to solve technical problems and design solutions, not afraid of challenging the status quo.
Requirements
- Expertise in Core Java: Demonstrable experience in Core Java is essential, providing the foundation for technical leadership.
- Spring Boot: Proficiency in Spring Boot, a popular Java framework for building microservices, is required.
- Advanced Programming Principles: Knowledge of advanced object-oriented programming principles like SOLID is necessary for guiding the development team effectively.
- API Development: Significant experience in designing and using RESTful APIs, GraphQL APIs, asynchronous message queues, and services.
- Architecture Expertise: Proven experience in building and maintaining large-scale distributed architectures, particularly microservices-based architectures.
- Database Knowledge: Familiarity with both relational databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL, Oracle) and NoSQL databases (e.g., Redis) is crucial for making informed architectural decisions.
- AWS Experience: Required experience in AWS tools, including ECS (Elastic Container Service), Cloudwatch, Lambda, RDS (Relational Database Service). AWS certification is a significant advantage.
- DevOps Proficiency: Comfort with modern DevOps best practices and tools, such as Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment), and ElasticSearch.
