Solutions Design IT Specialist

Solutions Design IT Specialist

Requirements

• Experience as a Senior Software Engineer / Designer delivering scalable and high throughput projects 10+ years.
• Experience in: React, Angular or similar technologies
• Know your Java / Spring / Spring Boot very well
• RESTful APIs
• Microservices and their architecture
• Messaging Queues
• Large mission critical online applications design and infrastructure configuration
• Relational and non-relational databases (MS SQL / Oracle / Mongo DB)
• Kafka cloud or local.
• Infrastructure Design and Performance Engineering
• Know your SCM and task trackers – Bitbucket/Git, JIRA and Confluence
• Ability to deconstruct high lever requirements into sizeable designs for pods to consume.
• Ability to communicate with non-technical members of the team.
• Effective time and task management skills, including the ability to manage concurrent deliverables at the personal and team level.
• Self-motivated team player with high energy and ability to work independently as well as within teams.
• Creative problem-solving skills
• Readiness and motivation (as a Senior / Lead Developer) to address and resolve complex and multi-faceted development-related issues, often independently.
• Ability to work autonomously in a lead capacity on a diverse range of activities (e.g. design, support of technical business solutions).
• Strength in collaborating with clients, partners, and peer project teams.
• Commitment to and belief in the quality of your deliverables.
• Undergraduate Degree

Responsibilities

• Transform Business Requirements and conduct research into winning delivery solutions that meet performance goals.
• Coordinate from a technical perspective large projects that span multiple teams and cover a diverse spectrum of technologies
• Provide technical guidance to technical leads and to Product Teams (Pods) consisting of Product Owners, Business Systems Analysts, Scrum Masters, Developers and of course our QA engineering group.
• Create and maintain quality system and infrastructure designs that are maintainable, performant, reliable, scalable, and secure.
• Define our next unit and integration test frameworks and standards.
• Ensure we have the proper tools in place so that we can ensure our applications are free of common coding vulnerabilities and we follow standard security practices.
• Design and develop highly complex and custom components.
• Work closely with other Developers, Designers, Solution Architects and Engineers to design solutions and deliver extraordinary products.
• Apply and share your technical expertise and experience.
• Proactively put forward ideas that speak to project objectives (e.g. development, testing solutions, and tools)
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies
• Contribute to project management activities such as: scope assessment and analysis (e.g. T-shirt sizing and Story Mapping), identifying risks and recommending mitigation measures, as well as escalating and communicating possible issues.
• Communicate and collaborate with the broader product team to develop and refine features.
• Lead and mentor team members

Preferred Qualifications

• Working experience in Agile methodology.
• Familiarity with Maven, Jenkins, Nexus
• Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
• Elasticsearch and AI generative models experience
• Network Layer Design Experience / Knowledge