Java Architect

We are looking for a Java Architect! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!

Type of Employment: Contact
Title: Java Architect
Term: 6-month – 37.5 hours/week
Location: Vaughan – Hybrid 2-days a week in the office
Job ID number: C1121

Brief description of duties:

The successful candidate will be responsible for architecting, designing and implementing enterprise-level financial software products. The solution includes, but not limited to, multi-tier enterprise level applications. The candidate will also help in defining product architecture and technology roadmaps.

Duties/Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Develop thorough understanding of Functional and Non-functional product requirements
• Define and maintain overall product architecture
• Work with engineering and product management to define future direction of the products.
• Provide technical guidance to the development and test teams in articulating how product requirements map to architecture, design and implementation of different software components
• Assist in defining and reviewing overall solution designs during customer projects
• Assist in RFP responses and pre-sales initiatives
• Investigate new technologies & standards in alignment with organizational technology roadmaps and strategy
• Assist Technical Project Manager (TPM) with effort estimation and planning
• Maintain and update established architecture, design and coding guidelines for the development team to ensure best practices and consistency in their deliverables.
• Create proof of concepts (PoCs) to validate design assumptions and to determine the feasibility and risk of different options.
• Provide technical leadership during the development of features especially from performance/load perspective
• Assist is resolving complex problems
• Participate in Software Development process improvement activities
• Help drive a culture of professionalism and continuous improvement

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Strong object oriented analysis, design, development ,troubleshooting and debugging skills with distributed multi-tier applications
• Competency for strategic planning and tactical execution
• Good understanding of software development methodologies; experience working in agile (scrum)
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills, and a passion for delivering high quality software required.
• A self-starter who can co-ordinate with a team, yet work independently towards a common goal

Must-haves:

• 8+ years of Java dev experience
• Recent 3-5 years of architect experience
• Springboot, jboss, WebSphere
• Oracle , sql DB
• Apache wicket for front end is nice to have
• Great communications and people skills
• Good baking experience