Job responsibilities
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience in Java
- Strong programming skills in Java 8+
- Understanding of core AWS services, uses, and AWS architecture best practices. Proficient in AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFormation, etc.
- Hands-on experience in different domains, like database architecture, business intelligence, machine learning, advanced analytics, big data, etc.
- Substantial knowledge in Linux/Unix administration
- Strong knowledge of cloud security practices and infrastructure management. Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Expertise in collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams of business analysts, data scientists, subject matter experts, and developers
- Ability to quickly identify and resolve issues in distributed systems
- Proven experience as software architect with excellent knowledge of software and application design and architecture
- Experience in software development and coding preferably in JAVA/ Python
- Collaborate closely with various stakeholders, including project managers, business analysts, and software developers, ensuring that the software architecture aligns with the project's goals and objectives.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experienced in working closely with SRE practice and strong finops mindsete
- Experience with DevOps tools (e.g., Terraform, Jenkins, Cloud Formation, Docker, Kubernetes) is preferred.