Technical Architect

Job title : Technical Architect
Job location : Plano Texas 75075
Duration : 12 months

Responsibilities and Day-to-Day View

• Collaborate with critical stakeholders to understand business needs, priority, and the quality of services to be created or enhanced. Drive alignment between application team implementation and solution to be compliant with Target State Architecture. Responsible for discovering and identifying any bottleneck gaps such as manual flows that can hinder the services or impact cycle time or cost and resolve them. Provide architectural governance and technical direction for the solution deployment strategy at the Product team level and architectural alignment across product teams. This includes:
• Designing, documenting and sharing the architectural vision across organizations
• Reviewing defined requirements of technical business analyst to ensure architecture is done according to standards / best practices
• Promoting adaptive design and engineering practices, ensure that common technology, design practices, and infrastructure are used and facilitate the reuse of code, components, and proven patterns; influence common modeling, design, and coding practices
• Collaboratively defining and integrating strategic technical roadmaps aligning to product roadmaps
• Monitoring the performance of architectural systems to ensure fluid interaction between components
• Laying out upgrade paths to architectural systems and software life cycle to ensure improved processes
• Defining Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) for common frameworks, libraries, resiliency, maintainability, automation, performance, logging/debugging, metrics, security, and other common areas of the platform and ensuring solutions align with established NFRs
• Ensure applications and services are leveraging building blocks whenever possible. Supports integrated solutions between legacy and target state solutions.

Description

• 5+ years of overall IT Industry experience (architecture, design, development, testing)
• 3+ years of architecture experience in building scalable and optimal performing eCommerce applications
• Proficient technical expertise in architecture and design of systems
• Azure and AWS Cloud experience (certification preferred)
• Experience with Chat frameworks such as Nuance technologies
• Experience in Natural Language Programming (NLP) & Frameworks
• Experience with Google Dialog flow
• Experience with Google Virtual Assistants
• Experience with React, Node JS, MS Bot framework
• Preferred experience in cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, Cassandra, Akamai, Ansible, Chef or Terraform
• Preferred experience in application monitoring including familiarity with Splunk, Dynatrace, Catchpoint, Grafana, Prometheus, and Nagios.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to present complex technical information in a clear manner to peers, developers, and senior leaders
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum/Kanban development team