Java Architect – Vice President

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Job Overview

Description

The architect plays a key role in ensuring that the scrum team delivers cohesive and efficient technical solutions that meet business objectives. This role involves collaborating with various teams to design, implement, and ensure the delivery of requirements, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and the technical vision.

Responsibilities:

• Architecture significantly impacts the solution, the teams that develop it, and the broader enterprise ecosystem. Consequently, a critical responsibility of the System Architect is collaborating with various roles, teams, and stakeholders within and outside the ART. The primary goal of these interactions is to ensure that the ART advances a system architecture that supports the evolving business need and enables fast reliable implementation
• Lead the architectural design and integration of solutions within the scrum teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture.
• Work with other architects and technical leads to design scalable, secure, and robust systems.
• Ensure architectural coherence across teams within the ART, promoting reusable components and services.
• Provide technical leadership to development teams, guiding them on best practices in design, coding, and system integration.
• Execute full software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Lead and manage the development team, including assigning tasks and monitoring progress
• Lead technical reviews and ensure high standards of code quality and system design.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Scrum Masters, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Participate in PI (Program Increment) Planning and other key SAFe events, representing the architectural perspective.
• Facilitate communication across teams to manage dependencies and ensure cohesive solution delivery.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the ART, focusing on enhancing system performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Champion the adoption of DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automation.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies and industry trends to bring innovative solutions to the ART.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks within the ART, ensuring that architecture decisions do not compromise system security or performance.
• Ensure compliance with industry regulations, security standards, and organizational policies.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive architectural documentation for all solutions within the ART.
• Establish and enforce architectural standards and best practices across the ART, ensuring consistency and quality.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years relevant experience in Architecture
• 8+ years’ experience with Microservices architecture & UI frameworks like React, Angular etc
• 12+ years Java & J2EE experience
• Experience in design tools like Visio, C4 modeling

• Strong understanding of web application architectures, design patterns, and technologies (e.g., front-end frameworks, back-end technologies, Messaging, databases, cloud platforms). 
• Ability to analyze complex problems and develop innovative solutions. 
• Experience and aptitude of Agile and DevOps approaches – e.g. continuous integration, test automation, frequent releases, containerization
• Extensive experience in Designing of non-relational databases such as MongoDB
• Good knowledge of relational databases, design and SQL
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Management and prioritization skills

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree