Your Role and ResponsibilitiesApplication Architects participate in analyzing the clients’ legacy applications and surrounding systems, defining target application architectures including the new cloud-native systems, and modernization strategies and execution plans for our clients. You will advise your clients to identify the most effective modernization approach and help modernize their legacy applications or build a completely new application stack using .net architectures with microservices.
In this role, you will:
- Provide end-to-end technical guidance and expertise; creatively applying cloud infrastructure and platform services to help solve business problems; and communicating these approaches to different business audiences in designated industries.
- Represent and facilitate architecture in discovery discussions with prospective clients, assess architecture needs for projects, work with Development leads and System Analysts to provide solutions.
- Upon commencement of engagements, co-lead client workshops with System Analysts; influencing participants from all levels of our clients’ organization to find the best outcomes and arrive at the architecture that will support the engagement.
- Work with clients and IBM teams to identify business problems and provide innovative solutions to them while evangelizing and accelerating the adoption of current and future .NET Core and technologies.
- Use exceptional communication skills and with input from product management, development, and architecture thought leaders, work to deliver high quality end-to-end Solutions at Scale in response to the identified business requirements from our clients.
- Explore and develop new technical skills and industry practices, while absorbing professional knowledge quickly and using demonstrated interpersonal skills to be an effective ambassador for .NET Core.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Bachelor degree or above in Engineering, Information Technology, Business or related fields
- 8 years of overall experience in .NET Core and T-SQL
- 8 years of experience in creating web application using front-end technologies: HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS.
- Architecting and developing cloud-native applications including development of APIs and microservices on containers.
- Experience in Git version control.
- Experience in Database design and maintenance.
- Fluent in Chinese reading, listening, writing, and speaking/fluent in English reading and writing
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Experience creating highly available, large-scale enterprise applications.
- Experience in SRE and monitoring.
- Familiarity with retail and e-commerce
- Understanding of containerization and microservices architectures such as K8s, Docker, Container, etc.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Familiar with RDBMS or NoSQL, such as MS SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, DynamoDB, or Redis.
- Working level in English speaking