Senior Solution Architect (Java)

Responsibilities

• Understand the needs of the client or business and use this knowledge to design system architectures that meet the specific needs and requests of the client.
• Gathering functional and non-functional requirements, elaborating architecture solutions, technical designs and PoCs, sufficient to start the work for the team for implementation.
• Technical supervision of the team and selected solutions.
• Design and develop applications and solutions.
• Participation in Code Review.

Mandatory skills

• Over 10 years’ experience in software development and at least 3 years as a Software / Solution Architect.
• Understanding principles of architecture: Enterprise, Solution levels and Technical Design.
• Knowledge of architectural patterns of the following categories: Data Architecture, Data Integration, Master Data Management, Analytics & BI, Data Modeling, MicroServices, Data Processing, Data Lake, Cloud Computing.
• Knowledge of UML 2.0 diagram description methodology and / or ArchiMate.
• Understanding of DevOps and SRE practices, including SLA / SLI / SLO metrics.
• Strong knowledge of relational database theory (ACID, Locks, Indexes, Execution plans, etc.).
• Strong knowledge one of popular RDBMS and one In-Memory Key-Value NoSQL database.
• Experience in modeling OLAP and OLTP database schemas.
• Experience in all stages of SDLC, from requirements gathering to deployment in industrial environments, as well as further maintenance / maintenance.
• Experience in developing and supporting complex distributed systems with strict requirements for availability, reliability and scalability.
• Java development experience and understanding of application development principles in the cloud environment.
• Good communication skills, ability to argue one's point of view.
• Ability to advocated projects / proposals in front of non-technical people.
• Must be results-driven, able and willing to go the extra mile to get the job done.
• English level: Upper-Advanced.

Nice-to-have skills:

• TOGAF 9+ and / or ITIL certification is a big plus.
• Experience with the following products: Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Gradle / Maven, Nexus, Cassandra, Drools, Hadoop stack, Spring Framework, Hazelcast, Git / Hg.
• JavaScript / React / Angular development experience.
• Understanding of BPMN diagrams.
• Experience with cloud one of infrastructure is desirable: AWS, Azure, GCP, Yandex.Cloud, Kubernetes and related tools — Prometheus / Grafana, Elastic Stack, Loki.
• Experience in training, mentoring and technical leadership of developers.
• Ability to demonstrate the result of projects in which the candidate has participated (link to GitHub, application or demo at the interview).