Technical Architect

Company: Spectraforce Technologies
Location: Auburn Hills
Posted on: January 25, 2025

Job Description:

Technical Architect
Auburn Hills, Michigan (Hybrid - 3 days onsite per week)
12 Months

Duties and Responsibilities:

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• Minimum of 10 years experience in advanced technologies including a minimum of 5+ years as a technical architect
  
• Minimum 7 years' experience in development including a minimum of 3+ years leading development resources
  
• Experience in the concepts and methodologies of enterprise architecture
  
• Deep knowledge of information technologies (Web Application, Database, Container Computing Platform, Infrastructure, Networks, Web & Integration software)
  
• Broad understanding of technologies and has experience in implementation methodologies, software development life cycle process, and project management
  
• Excellent planning and organization, project management and time management skills (particularly in delivery effort estimation and project scheduling)
  
• Strong problem solving and negotiation abilities
  
• Ability to inform, educate and influence managers and employees to support goals and initiatives
  
• Exceptional written, verbal and presentation skills are necessary to effectively convey goals and initiatives to team and management
  
• Knowledge of the vendor market and possess existing relationships
  
• Experience with web application, web service and mobile application architecture and design
  
• Strong API and data integration background
  
• Detail design background based on technologies listed under technical experience
  
• Strong Automotive OEM experience
  
• Extensive background in designing architectural solutions for large complex programs which results in representation in front of Architecture Review Board (e.g. logical & physical architectures, data classifications/protections, etc.)
  
• Extensive background in leading large and complex development initiatives
  
• Proven technical leadership experience, leading application detailed design and development (apply proper design patterns and adhere to VWGoA architecture and design principles, document design, review design by vendors, support QA)
  
• Proven experience leading development teams (design-implementation, code review for quality and security, development mentor technical teams)
  
• Experience leading technical troubleshooting including bug fix remediation and performance tuning
  
• Integrate comprehensive security principles into all phases of design and architecture
  
  Required and Desired Skills/Certifications:
  
  
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  • Solid experience in Springboot, Spring framework, J2EE technologies, event driven architecture, microservices, distributed architecture and design patterns.
    
  • Solid experience in modelling architecture and design with expertise of at least one of the frameworks (C4 model, UML, Archimate and Arc42 etc.)
    
  • Strong experience in designing and implementing Restful APIs using Spring Framework/Spring Boot and experience with API Management
    
  • Extensive experience architecting and designing modern business facing and consumer facing web applications including Single Page Applications using responsive design concept with Angular or React etc.
    
  • Solid experience in cloud based application desing, development and API driven systems integration
    
  • Hands on experience with CI/CD Tools (SVN/Github/Maven/Jenkins/JIRA)
    
  • Experience with cloud native application design and development with main stream platforms and technologies
    
  • Hands on experience with cloud technologies including AWS, GCP, Openshift, Kuberbetes, ELK, Kafka etc.
    
  • Experience with IBM Security Access Manager, IBM App Connect Enterprise, IBM WebSphere, IBM API Connect and Data power
    
  • In-depth understanding of the security architecture & design (Identity management, Authentication and Authorization framework, SAML, OIDC/OAuth2, 2FA, mTLS, secret and certificate management etc.) with hands-on experience
    
  • Hands-on experience with Application Performance Management, Web Site Performance Monitoring tools and performance tuning
    
  • Experience with application usage analytics and dashboard reporting
    
  • Good knowledge with NoSQL concepts and products
    
  • Understanding and hands-on experience of GraphQL based API development with Apollo or similar products
    
  • Hands-on experience with implementing robust logging and tracing implementation for end to end systems tracebility
    
  • Hands-on experience with code quality and coverage tools like Sonarqube.
    
  • Willing and ready to get hands on code development with dev team for developing and troubleshooting, doing quick proof of concepts for exploring new solutions, products etc.
    
  • Experienced in working with business/product team to discuss, analyze, understand and negotiate business requirements, being able to explain to business about the technical considerations and associated implications on the user journey/experience/requirements.
    
  • Education Requirements: Bachelor's degree required (Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline). Master's degree in technical discipline preferred.
    

Keywords: Spectraforce Technologies, Detroit , Technical Architect, IT / Software / Systems , Auburn Hills, Michigan