[Hiring] Sr. Software Architect @100K Job Hunt

Role Description

Our valued client is in the telecommunications industry, and their goal is to connect Canadians, create meaningful changes, and have a positive social impact through their world's best technology to help Canadian communities in need. They are committed to diversity and a fair working environment, and all employees can have equal opportunities depending on their abilities.

They are looking for a Senior Microservices Architect who has more than 8 years of experience as well as in-depth knowledge of:

• Cloud platforms, tools, and processes
• Big Data
• Microservices
• APIs

Location: Remote, Onsite (Vancouver, Ottawa, Edmonton)

• Providing strategic thinking and presenting new architectural recommendations to shift to a micro-service-based middleware platform to 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, DevOps, 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, and 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).

Qualifications

• Over 8+ years of experience in Software Architecture, Software Design, Infrastructure Architecture, System Design, and Implementation using Agile practices on an enterprise scale.
• 8+ years of experience architecting and developing API frameworks for carrier-grade solutions (Microsoft .NET framework, Microsoft .NET core, Node.js, Java).
• 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.
• 5+ years of experience designing, consulting, and building CI/CD DevOps Pipelines using technologies like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Jira, GitHub.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Experience leading and collaborating with diverse teams.