Product Architect

About the position

As a technical lead for an agile team, you are responsible for all aspects of application architecture including user interface, APIs, microservices, databases, and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Pursue new methods for fulfilling business requirements, including new tools, development strategies, and testing strategies, and evangelize solutions with multiple peers.
• Maintain sound understanding of enterprise and program level architecture.
• Liaison with business analysts to understand business needs and develop solutions that meet business needs and comply with enterprise and program level architecture and standards.
• Work with business analysts and scrum master to create implementation/development plan for new features/applications/solutions by developing epics and stories.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies by leading in all technical aspects, including leading the platform demos to the Product Owner and all applicable stakeholders.
• Collaborate with the SecDevOps team to onboarding new applications to the cloud-based infrastructure.
• Evangelize the developed solution to team members and work with team members to breakup stories into tasks and assist in completion of tasks in timely fashion.
• Motivating developers, testers and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns.
• Keep up to date with industry trends and developments.
• Delegating tasks and ensuring all daily, sprint and release goals are achieved.
• Perform Architecture design and reviews as required, ensuring initiatives are aligned with future state.
• Designing solutions in a Multi-Tenant Cloud Architecture that will support legacy .NET, Java, and COTS client/server applications.
• Identifies risks, opportunities, compliance issues or other architectural concerns.
• Active participation in Agile Scrum sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases.
• Develop product teams technical skills through mentoring, coaching, and peer reviews.
• Review Cybersecurity Assessments and Static Code Analysis of developed software to define remediation's and improve software quality.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass CBP background investigation.
• 10+ years' overall experience in software development, including hands-on experience with programming, software design patterns, and architecture as a software architect, tech lead, or a senior developer.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as Java, or JavaScript, and experience with various development frameworks and libraries, such as Angular, Spring, Hibernate.
• Familiarity with design patterns, object-oriented programming (OOP), and other software design methodologies to create modular, scalable, and maintainable systems.
• Professional experience operating within cross-functional teams and groups.
• Knowledge of different software development processes, such as Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or DevOps, and their implications on architectural decisions.
• Expertise in various architectural styles, such as client-server, microservices, event-driven, or layered architectures, and their trade-offs.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and understanding of distributed system concepts, including scalability, fault tolerance, and data consistency.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and experience designing, implementing, and integrating APIs in a secure and efficient manner.
• Familiarity with relational (e.g., Postgres) and NoSQL (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB) databases, data modeling, and data storage best practices.
• Skills in analyzing and optimizing software performance, including profiling, benchmarking, and code optimization techniques.
• Awareness of common software security vulnerabilities and strategies to mitigate them, such as input validation, secure coding practices, and encryption.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability and desire to stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in software architecture.

Nice-to-haves

• Deep experience in our tech stack: Java 17, Spring/Spring boot, Typescript, UI state management, ORM such as Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Amazon AWS.
• Having served in a technical lead role for one or more product teams.
• Optional but beneficial certifications include AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.
• Having contributed to development of enterprise architecture and standards and ability to enforce these standards.
• Experience in Continuous integration, Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) as well as SecDevOps processes and tools.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits such as healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.
• Flexible time off benefit.
• Access to robust learning resources.