Application Architect

Job Title: Application Architect

Location: Minnetonka, MN (4 days onsite in a week)

Job Type: W2/Fulltime

Visa: Citizen, Green Card

Description

What you'll do:

• Partner with product leaders, development teams and other architects to prepare designs, solutions and strategies that help us get the most value from the technology we purchase and create.
• Maintain and awareness of evolving technical landscapes and industry trends and leverage this knowledge as a technical leader to help development teams strategize and design early, several steps ahead of development.
• Work as a key technical leader and direct contributor to the work necessary to deliver on our product goals. Develop new applications and feature enhancements leveraging your skills and expertise with Java/J2EE, Spring boot, Jenkins, OpenShift and other tools and technologies.
• Devise strategies to improve our ability to keep our systems current, compliant, secure, stable and able to deliver the needs of our growing business. Support both vendor-supplied and internally developed custom software.
• Act as a technical subject matter expert for key systems. Support routine and ad-hoc research and discovery.
• Support continuous improvement of our products, our team operating cadences and our run-state operations (logging, monitoring, alerting, metrics, level 2, and documenting of knowledge for scalability across the technical team).
• Work with other technical teams to arrange for technical dependencies and cross-collaboration.
• Foster a sense of urgency to achieve goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles.
• Inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization's direction (product/agile/devops).
• Back up the development team as needed and be willing to be an all-around technical utility player.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree
• 5 years of relevant experience working with technology teams to deliver business and technical solutions leveraging your skills with Java/J2EE, Spring, Springboot, REST, JSON, microservices.
• 5 years of experience working with container orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience working with container orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• 5 years of experience and proven understanding of Dev Sec Ops, continuous integration, container based applications, cloud deployment architectures
• Proficiency in Linux (RHEL) and Windows Server environments. Apache, IIS and Tomcat (web and application servers) and SQL Server (database)
• Strong skills and experience with Bash, PowerShell, Python or Pearl (for automation and system management), Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana or ELK Stack (monitoring and observability), Ansible, Puppet, Chef or SaltStack (configuration management), and Jenkins, Gitlab CI, or Azure Develops (CI/CD pipelines)
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs, JSON, OAUTH and API Management, preferably using Apigee
• Strong knowledge and experience with cloud technologies and building cloud-hosted applications – Azure, AWS and GCP
• Highly motivated with strong organizational, analytical, decision making, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handle multiple priorities and effectively prioritize them
• Willingness and drive to learn and understand detailed software solutions
• High level of professionalism and confidence with the ability to build credibility with leadership, team members, and business partners and establish effective working relationships
• Ability to problem-solve, plan, scope, and provide estimates for work effort, producing quality deliverables on time and on budget
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to interact effectively across all organizational levels and explain technical concepts clearly and concisely to multiple layers of peers and leadership
• Experience with TOGAF or similar architecture frameworks
• Experience with the asset finance industry (leasing, lending) and systems (Rapport, InfoLease, Stucky)

Experience with scaled agile frameworks