Senior Software Architect (J2EE, SaaS)

Endava is a public technology company, with over 18 years of experience of working with some of the world’s leading Finance, Insurance, Telecommunications, Media, Technology, and Retail companies. Through the Digital Evolution, Agile Transformation and Automation solutions, Endava helps its clients be more engaging, responsive and efficient by supporting them from ideation to production.

Endava has 5,182 employees located in offices in North America and Western Europe and delivery centres in Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Colombia.

Along with investing in long-term customer relationships, Endava recognised the importance of providing rewarding and challenging careers for people and, by doing so, has established itself as the employer of choice in certain regions.

• Proven track record of delivering a mission critical, high volume enterprise web applications;
• Experience developing multiple successful SaaS applications;
• 10+ years of hands-on experience developing and debugging commercial J2EE applications, including JSE, JSP, JDBC, XML, Web Services, AJAX/JSON, JavaScript UI Frameworks and Libraries (AngularJS, EXTJS);
• Extensive practical experience in the areas of BPM, distributed caching and web frameworks, cloud technologies, performance optimization, and scalability;
• Knowledge of NoSQL and relational databases;
• Working knowledge of Linux/Solaris environments;
• Experience with Version Control systems such as Git and SVN;
• Experience with configuration management and build/release planning & management (ANT/Maven etc.);
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented design principles and design patterns;
• Great problem solving capability;
• Experience designing software for performance and scalability;
• Experience writing functional specifications, architecture and design documents;
• Team leadership experience;
• Ability to learn quickly and stay up-to-date with new technologies;
• Open to working in an agile environment as part of a scrum team;
• The ability to take the initiative, drive the project and innovate;
• Interest in career development and willingness to learn;
• Self-motivated, passionate about software, and driven to achieve committed milestones;
• Ability to work in a fast-paced development environment with a broad scope of responsibilities;
• Technical level written and spoken fluency in the English language.

• Drive the architecture, design and development of a world-class, next generation SaaS offering;
• Analyse business issues and technical problems, apply critical thinking, and provide creative, architecturally sound, extensible solutions;
• Lead team members and individually contribute to the development using your expertise in Java/J2EE, JavaScript, MySQL and MongoDB;
• Hands-on coding, debugging, testing across all aspects of the software solution;
• Active technical leadership throughout the entire development process, including requirement reviews, development, deployment, setting up environments; documenting release notes and configuration details;
• Provide technical leadership, guide and develop other team members;
• Actively collaborate with other architects and technical leaders;
• Perform design reviews and code reviews;
• Advocate and enforce Agile/Scrum best practices;
• You will be involved in the development of a services platform for one of the largest international providers of financial and loan services;
• Create intelligent designs that will ensure efficient decisioning, and ensuring the deployment of best practices.