Technical Architect  Auburn Hills, MI – Hybrid only

Technical Architect  Technical Architect  Auburn Hills, MI – Hybrid only, MI – Hybrid only. 3 days from AH office. (ONLY LOCALS)

Job Description:

Skills - 10 Years & 6+ as Architect. (C4 Model or UML), Kafka, Spring boot, Cloud integration, GCP, AWS, Docker, CI/CD, Kubernetes. NOSQL.

·        Minimum of 10 years experience in advanced technologies including a minimum of 5+ years as a technical architect

·        Minimum 7 years’ experience in development including a minimum of 3+ years leading development resources

·        Experience in the concepts and methodologies of enterprise architecture

·        Deep knowledge of information technologies (Web Application, Database, Container Computing Platform, Infrastructure, Networks, Web & Integration software)

·        Broad understanding of technologies and has experience in implementation methodologies, software development life cycle process, and project management

·        Excellent planning and organization, project management and time management skills (particularly in delivery effort estimation and project scheduling)

·        Strong problem solving and negotiation abilities

·        Ability to inform, educate and influence managers and employees to support goals and initiatives

·        Exceptional written, verbal and presentation skills are necessary to effectively convey goals and initiatives to team and management

·        Knowledge of the vendor market and possess existing relationships

·        Experience with web applicaiton, web service and mobile application architecture and design

·        Strong API and data integration background

·        Detail design background based on technologies listed under technical experience

·        Strong Automotive OEM experience

·        Extensive background in designing architectural solutions for large complex programs which results in representation in front of Architecture Review Board (e.g. logical & physical architectures, data classifications/protections, etc.)

·        Extensive background in leading large and complex development initiatives

·        Proven technical leadership experience, leading application detailed design and development (apply proper design patterns and adhear to VWGoA architecture and design principles,  document design, review design by vendors, support QA)

·        Proven experience leading development teams (design-implementation, code review for quality and security, development mentor technical teams)

·        Experience leading technical troubleshooting including bug fix remediation and performance tuning

·        Integrate comprehensive security principles into all phases of design and architecture

Technical Experience:

·        Solid experience in Springboot, Spring framework, J2EE technologies, event driven architecture, microservices, distributed architecture and design patterns.

·        Solid experience in modelling architecture and design with expertise of at least one of the frameworks  (C4 model, UML, Archimate and Arc42 etc.)

·        Strong experience in designing and implementing Restful APIs using Spring Framework/Spring Boot and experience with API Management

·        Extensive  experience architecting and designing modern business facing and consumer facing web applications including Single Page Applications using responsive design concept with Angular or React etc.

·        Solid experience in cloud based application desing, development and API driven systems integration

·        Hands on experience with CI/CD Tools (SVN/Github/Maven/Jenkins/JIRA)

·        Experience with cloud native application design and development with main stream platforms and technologies

·        Hands on experience with cloud technologies including AWS, GCP, Openshift, Kuberbetes, ELK,  Kafka etc.

·        Experience with IBM Security Access Manager, IBM App Connect Enterprise, IBM WebSphere, IBM API Connect and Data power

·        In-depth understanding of the security architecture & design (Identity management, Authentication and Authorization framework, SAML, OIDC/OAuth2, 2FA, mTLS, secret and certificate management etc.) with hands-on experience

·        Handson experience with Application Performance Management, Web Site Performance Monitoring tools and performance tuning

·        Experience with application usage analytics and dashboard reporting

·        Good knowledge with NoSQL concepts and products

·        Understanding and hands-on experience of GraphQL based API development with Apollo or similar products

·        Handson experience with implementing robust logging and tracing implementation for end to end systems tracebility

·        Handson experience with code quality and coverage tools like Sonarqube.

·        Willng and ready to get hands on code development with dev team for developing and troubleshooting, doing quick proof of concepts for exploring new solutions, products etc.

·        Experienced in working with business/product team to discuss, analyze, understand and negotiate business requirements, being able to explain to business about the technical considerations and associated implications on the user journey/experience/requirements.

Education Requirements:

·        Bachelor's degree required (Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline). Master’s degree in technical discipline preferred.