Software Architect - Java Stack
Saviynt
- Los Angeles, CA Atlanta, GA
- $180,000-220,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Help define overall architectural principles, frameworks, and standards
- Contribute to the architecture strategy and manage the alignment to the product roadmap
- Combine a broad understanding of current technologies with deep, architect-level expertise in core areas such as database design, software architecture, cloud architecture & infrastructure architecture
- Provide input on technology selection and help drive best practices
- Guide early-phase application design decisions through strong communication skills and deep technical expertise
- Drive technical decisions to support critical success factors like performance, security, scalability, and maintainability; and identify opportunities for improvement in those same areas in existing systems
- Facilitate and drive technical design conversations as part of the backlog grooming process across development teams
- Review and create a system, software, and technical design specifications that fulfill product requirements
- Provide hands-on development where appropriate to help deliver architecture that supports product delivery, and train and lead other developers in how to leverage new architectures or technologies
- Bachelors degree or an equivalent work experience
- Minimum of 5+ years of Software architect experience with customer-facing, large-scale, web-based, or SaaS applications. Overall 10+ years of experience.
- Deep, hands-on, architect-level understanding of various java frameworks (spring boot, grails etc.)
- Strong knowledge of architectural styles and design patterns. Microservices experience and the development of APIs are a strong plus.
- Hands-on knowledge of deployment patterns for cloud deployments - AWS & Azure
- Extremely clear communicator with a listen-first approach.
- Thorough knowledge of key cloud platform components such as AWS RDS, Elastic Search, RabbitMQ/ActiveMQ, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Spring cloud framework.
- Thorough knowledge of security principles and patterns of Authentication and Authorization, Single sign-on, and federation. Knowledge of spring security, SAML, OAuth, etc is also highly preferred.
- Expertise in analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems and willingness to help the support and development teams diagnose and address production issues
- Ability to balance the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term implications of individual decisions