Sr. Software Architect (Remote, Canada Wide)

• Providing strategic thinking and presenting new architectural recommendations to shift to a micro-service-based middleware platform optimize available micro-services.
• Adopt and communicate new concepts, ideas, technologies, best practices and technical support at all organizational levels.
• Be a Mentor to other developers on how to upgrade the company’s technology to the next generation, including enhanced resiliency, automation, dev ops, and cloud.
• Plan and develop the Architectural Runway in support of new business features and capabilities.
• Understand strategic themes and communicate them to architecture, System and solution designers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Be part of modelling, design, and coding practices.
• Promote Continuous Delivery Pipeline and DevOps capabilities
• Promote the reuse of code, components, and proven patterns.
• Work with stakeholders and vendors to establish a high solution intention, information models, and document requirements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop, analyze, split.
• Participate in Program Increment (PI) Planning and Pre and Post PI Planning, System and Solution Demos, and Inspect and Adapt events
• Define, explore, and support implementing an envelope that can advance solution intentions and enforce it directly with the Agile team.
• Synchronize the System and data security and quality, Production infrastructure, Solution user experience (Lean UX), and Nonfunctional Requirements (NFRs).

Skills and Requirements

Must have skills

• Have over 8+ years of experience in Software Architecture, Software Design, Infrastructure Architecture, System Design and Implementation using Agile practices on an enterprise scale.
• Have 8+ years of experience architecting and developing API frameworks for carrier-grade solutions. (Microsoft .net framework, Microsoft.net core, node.js, Java)
• Have in-depth knowledge and more than 8+ years of experience in computer codes and software solutions such as Java, C#, Javascript, HTML5, ASP.Net, SQL, node.js
• Experience with NoSQL technologies like Redis, MongoDB along with relational databases
• Experience with analytics platforms like NewRelic, ElasticSearch, Splunk, Adobe Analytics
• Experience using and/or developing on a Unix/Linux platform
• Experience with implementing identity and security using OAuth2, LDAP and Active Directory
• Experience with enterprise architecture tools like TOGAF, Archimate
• Hands-on experience in service-oriented architectures and understanding of microservice-based architectures.
• Have 5+ years of experience designing, consulting and building CI/CD DevOps Pipelines using technologies like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Jira, GitHub.
• Have more than 2+ years of experience with cloud, including GCP, Azure, or AWS.
• Experience with large-scale applications using microservices with a focus on resiliency and redundancy in deployments.
• Architectural solid skills with modularizing components in large applications.
• Hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes, OpenShift.
• Experience with cloud-native tools and cloud environments, such as GCP, AWS, etc.
• Full-stack DevOps experience in production environments.
• Excellent understanding of configuration management and infrastructure management when building and deploying microservices.
• Hands-on experience in Agile methodology.
• Computer Science or Engineering Degree or Technology education background.

Nice to have skills

• Strong analytical, problem solving, critical-mind and decision-making skills.
• Detail-oriented skills to architect end-to-end systems with minimal user impact.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical details in a business context.
• Have experience with lead and collaborate with diverse teams.