Lead Architect - Java + Angular - BFSI

Job Title

Role: Lead Architect

Experience: 14 + years

Location: Bangalore

Company: Global Aviation domain

Must have Skill sets: 60% Java + 40% Angular

Background & Purpose:

Or Organization is a leading Travel Technology provider for the global travel industry. It is second largest R&D centre and currently in huge expansion!

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Lead Architect to join this special team in eCommerce space. You have to own deep experience in software development and mastery of engineering practices throughout the software development life cycle, the Lead Architect acts as technical expert, solving complex technical challenges and collaborating across product groups to ensure the adoption of effective and consistent practices, tools and methodologies. We expect you to be able to learn new techniques, system behavior and be able to become a source of knowledge for your areas of responsibility and inspire/lead the other team member to high technical standards.

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Create/solution/develop complex, ecommerce application as a member of diverse, high energy and awesome technical teams focused on full life-cycle development based on Agile/SAFe.

- Understand company needs to define system specifications.

- Design the technology solutions and work with Dev teams to implement the same.

- Evaluate and select appropriate software or hardware and define the related integration methods.

- Active participation in major technical code reviews and provide guidance to team members. Help set-up the code review processes.

- Own and solution all the technical problems. Work with internal and external teams to provide the required resolution.

- Ensure the implementation of agreed architecture and infrastructure

- Handling of Performance and security requirements for the project.

- Preparing the architectural diagrams.

- Create prototypes based upon the defined user interface by using the underlying tools and technologies.

Technical Excellence:

- Experience in the design and development of high-performing solutions

- Knowledge of Azure/AWS Cloud and related technologies (Cloud native design, monitoring, and data stores)

- Knowledge in SOA and EDA and microservice architecture.

- Knowledge in SaaS.

- Knowledge of SAFe and agile way of working.

- Knowledge on Web Security principles.

Key expert areas:

- Hands on experience in JAVA, J2EE tools and technologies.

- Web Technologies - Angular, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, RxJs, NgRx

- Java Frameworks - Working knowledge on any of these frameworks - Spring / Hibernate / Grails / -Apache Wicket etc.

- Cloud knowledge - MS Azure/ AWS, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker

- Databases - MySQL or exposure to any other RDBMS, NoSQL

- Content Management Systems: AEM / Drupal etc.

- Experience in CDN - Akamai, Cloudfront etc.

- Excellent OO and design skills

- Experience with Test Driven Development within a continuous Integration environment.

- Experience on Continuous integration tools: Jenkins, SonarQube, BitBucket. Good knowledge on -Source Control Management (Git / Stash).

- Good knowledge and demonstrable experience in Cloud-based development (Docker container technology in Kubernetes / OpenShift preferred)

- Hands-on experience in using data structures, and extended libraries in JAVA with knowledge of Design patterns

- Excellent knowledge of microservices and their design patterns

- SOAP/REST Webservices & Standards.

- Good Experience with Troubleshooting and monitoring tools (Grafana, JMeter).

- Deep understanding of non-functional requirements (NFR) and/or underlying technologies impacting the final solution

- Exposure to PCI-DSS and GDPR related processes and items

- Experience in Travel domain is a plus.

Innovation:

- Foster innovation and operational performance in the deployment of new functionalities, services and technologies

- Improve project delivery and provide recommendations for process improvement

- Identify new solutions and opportunities in our service offerings

- Establish technical standard and drive engineering practices

- Building cross-functional/technical teams & knowledge sharing

- Consistently create successful engagement on projects and collaborate with cross-functional teams in driving operating and service excellence

- Represent engineering in cross-functional activities (quality initiatives, etc)

- Contribute to the R&D cultural transformation and talent development through team members coaching and mentoring

- Contribute to technical knowledge sharing sessions.

- Support newcomers with appropriate technical accompaniment (training, booklets etc)

- Contribute to the Architect community and other relevant communities.

Education: Bachelor's degree or Master in Computer Science (or similar).

Relevant work experience: 14+ years of experience in software development.