Technical Architect - Erlanger, KY

Technical Architect - Erlanger, KY
This is a full-time, exempt position.

The Technical Architect for Applications will combine expertise in technology design and development across modern application, integration, data, and security architectures.  This position requires experience in using front-end and back-end development technologies and frameworks.  The Technical Architect for Applications support defining architecture standards, developing solution architectures, and governing architecture submissions.

This is an Architect-level position within ADM’s Enterprise Architecture team, supporting ADM’s Cloud Center of Excellence.  It requires communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to work with detail-level IT engineers, developers, and architects.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design of application solutions, including cloud native solutions
• Take accountability for solution requirement definitions, conceptual, and high- and low-level design artifact generation
• Support ADM’s emerging Cloud CoE
• Lead reviews of solutions to audit against design requirements
• Research, experiment, and prototype new cloud application services. 
• Help maintain and develop technical standards
• Manage adherence to defined architecture standards throughout the Application development lifecycle
• Provide oversight and coaching to developers as part of the Architecture Services Organization
• Provide subject matter expertise to design, develop, and implement technical  architecture in alignment with Enterprise Architecture’s direction and standards
• Maintain knowledge of industry trends and utilize this knowledge to educate both IT and the business on opportunities to build better target architectures that support and drive business decisions
• Support IT Enterprise governance functions (RFI’s, vendor risk assessments, etc…)

Job Requirements

• 7 years of IT experience
• 5 Years of building solutions using modern application design patterns including serverless applications, containerized applications, SOA applications, web service applications, and RESTful patterned applications
• 5 years of IT technical design experience overall (either exclusively or across applications, data, cloud infrastructure, networks, or security)
• 5 Years of Application development experience using Microsoft development platforms
• 5 Years of solution technical design involving Microsoft Azure, including both high-level solution design, and detailed technical design
• Ability to generate conceptual and high level architecture design artifacts
• Experience conducting design and architecture reviews
• Understanding of network architecture
• Understanding of security architecture and identity management
• Experience using modern integration architectures
• Experience developing cloud solutions using Azure services such as App Service, Azure Functions, API Management, Application Gateway, Logic Apps, Container Apps, and Azure Service Bus
• Preferred: Azure Solution Architect Certification
• Experience in software development using languages such as C#, Java, or Python
• Experience with Containerization using Docker and orchestration platforms
• Experience with Source Code Management tools such as Git, GitHub, SVN, Gitlab
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as SQL Server, Cosmos DB, or similar experience
• Strong interpersonal collaboration skills and ability to work across technology domains
• Strong verbal skills and ability to communicate both upward and down
• Strong technical design skills