Sr Software Architect-Philadelphia, PA

Job Title : Sr Software Architect
Location : Philadelphia, PA
Position Type : full time
Rate : $ 120,000
Green Card, U.S Citizens and GC-EAD
Job Description

• Ensure technical solutions, tools and procedures adhere to department standards and best practices.
• Interfaces with the enterprise architecture team and other functional areas to ensure that the most efficient solution is designed to meet business needs.
• Monitors current and future trends, technology and information that will positively affect organizational projects; applies and integrates emerging technological trends to new and existing systems architecture.
• Provide inputs into functional and technical design with respect to resiliency, scalability, and supportability.
• In cooperation with production support teams, manage platform growth and ensure platforms continue to adhere to performance and availability KPIs.
• Understand and provide architecture support for key transactions and integrations across platforms.
• Provide support for changes to new or existing platforms including design and procurement. Support implementation as needed.
• Mentor team members in relevant technologies and implementation architecture.
• Drive innovation and automation via unified tools implemented to support end to end software development lifecycle.
• Drive enhancements to transaction-centric monitoring solutions to provide unified view of application performance and availability based on the user experience.
• Make recommendations to improve key Devops KPIs (Speed of deployments, Frequency of Deployments, Incidents/Defects related to release, etc.).
• Maintain technical documentation include architecture and connectivity diagrams.
• Maintain Technical Competency across diverse technologies (web, application/middleware, and database) through formal training.
• Establish and maintain a high level of peer trust and confidence and maintain positive customer relationships.
• Team orientated, willing to share knowledge and collaborate with peers.
• Knowledge and experience with ITIL processes.

Job Specification:

• Bachelors Engineering, Computer Science
  Generally requires 7-11 years related experience with 3+ years of experience as a technology architect
• Technical experience in the following areas: Various software development frameworks including Microsoft .net and Java
• Client server technologies such as Web (Apache, Tomcat), Middleware (Weblogic, JBOSS, Tomcat, IIS), SQL DB (Oracle, MySQL, MSSQL), NoSQL DB (Cassandra, Hadoop).
• Strong technical understanding of network architecture including the use of firewalls, VLANs, and routers/switches.
• Enterprise Cloud, Virtualization, Server and Storage systems within a broad spectrum of technologies.
• CI/CD and automation technologies such as Cloud Foundry, Docker, TeamCity, Jenkins, uDeploy, etc.