Application Architect

Application Architect

Location: Buffalo NY or Remote

Typescript, PHP, XML, NodeJS, Postgres. Good to have: PubSub, GCP

• Design, customize, and implement IT solutions for wholesale brokerage platforms within the organization.
• Maintains familiarity with new development tools and techniques for systems analysis, design, and development.
• Develop and review solution architecture, design and code.
• Ability to review and rationally analyze requirements in a timely manner.
• Research and propose solutions for cloud data transformation, data connections, operational frameworks, and application integration.
• Work closely with lead architects and engineers to create and maintain architectural templates and build/operational documents.
• Work with DevOps and engineering teams to develop service catalogs.
• Lead a large team of Developers, Senior Developers, Tech Leads across various Tech stack.
• Develop an understanding of existing client IT applications while actively searching for improvement areas.
• Streamline workflows and process optimization by implementing inventive technical solutions.
• Engage with stakeholders, updating them on IT development processes and costs.
• Deep hands-on experience with multiple development approaches, pattern and architecture means to implement solution. Collaborating with their team to identify and fix technical problems.
• Work closely with business leads and product owners to understand solution requirements and identify architectural patterns.
• Evaluate existing tech stack and emerging technologies on a regular basis.
• Develop and implement ways to move applications and workloads to the cloud and modernize applications.
• Enhance cloud capability by creating and implementing cloud application patterns.
• Lead and guide development & support teams. Mentor team members. Technical/ functional guidance on the app
• Orchestrate work prioritization, scheduling and allocation for the rest of the Service Provider team.
• Familiarity with a variety of both legacy and modern coding languages, frameworks and patterns. MUST Have: Typescript, PHP, XML, NodeJS, Postgres, PubSub, GCP and Azure Cloud, MicroServices, APIs. Good To HAVE: Experience of .Net, SQL, T-SQL, MongoDB and Java.
• Solid experience working in Agile environment. Both Scrum and Kanban.
• Solid Understanding of Web applications, cloud managed services, service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions, microservices, containers, API development and managed databases
• Hands on experience designing and developing new features
• Superior analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Proven ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Hands on experience with Jira, Confluence, Service Now, ITIL tools and process framework
• Experience presenting and interacting with CXO Level executives
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science
• 18+ years professional development and applications architecture experience