Technical Architect

Job Description:
Our client's Digital Platform Product team is looking for a Technical Architect who is passionate about the eCommerce industry and has analytical and multi-task abilities to thrive in a fast-paced environment. As a Technical Architect, you will be responsible for the design, development, and support of Client Web Account Management applications in support of the customer and employee digital experience across our consumer distribution channels.  You must possess strong technical background, you must have experience with large cross-organizational software development projects and have a well-rounded technical background in current cloud technologies.

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.

Qualifications
• 5+ years of overall IT Industry experience (architecture, design, development, testing)
• 2+ years of architecture experience in building scalable and optimal performing eCommerce applications 
• Proven track record in setting and defining architectural solutions and designs aligned with target architecture; RESTful API development, microservices development, solid understanding of design impacts to performance, security, resiliency, and maintainability;  
• 2+ years of experience in build and CI/CD technologies: GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus or Sonar