Technical Architect

<p>Technical Architect</p><p>Location: Research Triangle Park, NC</p><p>Duration: 6+ Months, long term potential</p><p><br></p><p>Role Summary</p><p>This role is responsible for the development and implementation of technology architecture for complex applications and solutions in a challenging business domain. Works directly with product and engineering teams in an Agile environment.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Responsibilities Include:</p><p>• Translates and incorporates business vision and strategy to best fit architectural strategy recommendations for very large projects and applications.</p><p>• Drives adoption of enterprise standards and best practices. Promotes changes in process, standards, or technologies when necessary.</p><p>• Develops, communicates, and oversees implementation of architecture and technology standards. Works directly with engineering and product teams. Participates in management and executive product and architectural discussions.</p><p>• Anticipates applicability of major industry trends in the large project or business unit level and implements plans. Develops or executes Proof of Concepts (POC’s) to assess technical and business benefits.</p><p>• Participates in critical problem solving and advanced troubleshooting as necessary.</p><p>• Effectively addresses functional and quality goals of systems during design activities. Applies appropriate approaches to assessing tradeoffs among architectural goals.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Specific Knowledge/Skills/Experience:</p><p>• Proficiency in multiple enterprise technologies, architectural styles, and techniques. Ability to quickly acquire skills. Experience with Java, .NET, varied service interaction styles, messaging, and enterprise databases.&nbsp;</p><p>• Knowledge and mastery of multiple architectural skills within enterprise standards, including frameworks, blueprints, and architecture patterns.</p><p>• Demonstrated ability to manage conceptual and abstract problem domains.</p><p>• Use of modeling techniques – such as use case, scenario modeling, prototyping, benchmarking, and performance modeling – to describe the problem space, to size the solution and to validate that the proposed architecture addresses the business requirements.</p><p>• Expertise in applying architecture assessment methodologies.</p><p>• Industry and technology trend analysis.</p><p>• Bachelor’s degree minimum.</p><p>• 10+ years experience in designing, implementing and delivering large complex systems</p><p>• Financial Industry experience a plus.</p><p>• Experience designing systems involving services, messaging, integration, and event-driven capabilities required.</p><p>• Knowledge of Java Middle-Tier frameworks and platforms preferred.</p><p>• Database knowledge – Oracle preferred.</p><p>• Functional programming and related platform experience is a plus.</p><p>• Distributed caches and in-memory data grids a plus.</p><p>• Hadoop, Spark, or other “Big Data” experience a plus.</p><p><br></p>