Application Architect

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Join our international team of more than 40 colleagues. As different as we are, we all have one thing in common – the curiosity about technology and knowledge. We are an experienced, motivated, purposeful, and cheerful team that is always looking forward to new challenges.

Required Professional and Technical Expertise:

• Proven experience to assess Application Operational Architecture requirements for complex business applications and to define and implement the High-Level and Low-Level Design
• Ability to understand and communicate Functional and Technical Specifications for complex business applications.
• Experience with Requirement Analysis definition.
• Experience with defining the Integration Architecture of different applications and underlying infrastructure, to solve complex business requirements.
• A solid background in technical consulting, with demonstrated architectural experience in solving customer's business applications related issues.
• Experience with writing and owning Technical Documentation.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical design, in written and verbal mode.
• Experience leading technical teams.
• Solid and practical project management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Solid understanding of modern Java application structure, including the whole SDLC lifecycle, with a focus on packaging, deployment, testing and support best practices.
• Basic practical knowledge of Linux OS and scripting technologies.
• Basic practical knowledge of Networking technologies.
• Good understanding of Java Application Servers such as Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Fusion Middleware or similar products.
• Basic practical knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases - Oracle database knowledge a plus.
• Experience / knowledge of Application Monitoring technologies and tools (Elastic Stack, Prometheus, Dynatrace).
• Experience / knowledge of modern messaging frameworks (Kafka).
• Experience / knowledge of Agile / DevOps environments.
• Experience / knowledge of Ansible, Ansible Tower.
• Experience / knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes (or similar container orchestration technology).
• Practical experience with Agile application life cycle.
• Experience / knowledge of ITIL framework.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Fluency in English.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills, in an international work environment.

Responsibilities:

• Continuously assess customer’s business applications’ requirements and develop high quality, scalable and maintainable solutions, with a focus on Operational Architecture (high availability, disaster recovery, performance, security, scalability, usability).
• Assess Application Operational Architecture requirements for complex business applications and work with the Infrastructure Architects team to define and implement the Low-Level Design, based on the Development team’s requirements.
• Gain an excellent understanding of customer application landscape, including business and infrastructure needs, make recommendations that resolve their critical issues, and help them make strategic operational decisions.
• Actively support our clients to build enterprise applications and capabilities around DevSecOps, Containerized and Cloud technologies, to streamline development and deployment and allow for continuous feature release of applications.
• Work together with the operational teams (support, deployment, testing) to quickly solve high-priority application operational issues;
• Write and own technical documentation.
• Work in an agile project-centric mode, with different, international teams.
• Collaborate with several internal teams (application owners, project management, deployment, testing, support) in order to solve our client’s needs, in both continuous and project mode.
• Effectively communicate in verbal and written modes on complex Application Modernization concepts to client and your own team members, including non-technical ones.
• Build and lead technical teams, to cover different operational areas.
• Continuously learn new methodologies and technologies, with a focus on application build, deployment and support in DevSecOps, Cloud and Containerized environments.
• Actively share your knowledge within the team and organization.

Nice to have:

• Technical experience with Java Development frameworks, in particular Spring Boot.
• Experience / knowledge of Security Architectures;
• Hands-on experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with Ansible, Ansible Tower.
• Experience / Knowledge of Tanzu, OpenShift.
• Experience / Knowledge of Cloud platforms (IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
• Provide end-to-end technical guidance and expertise on how to effectively use PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service ) to build solutions on business applications.
• Experience / Knowledge of building cloud native and ready applications, as well as migrating Java applications from on-prem to cloud.
• Experience / Knowledge with Analytics technology.