Technical Architect

Job Description

A Technical Architect will serve as the manager of complex technology implementations, with an eye toward constant reengineering and refactoring to ensure the simplest and most elegant system possible to accomplish the desired need; understand how to maximize leverage of the open source community to deploy systems on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers; be comfortable sharing knowledge across a multi-disciplinary team and working within various methodologies; and be a full partner in the determination of vision, objectives, and success criteria. The Technical Architect will architect the overall system by using prototyping and proof of concepts, which may include: modern programming languages (e.g., Ruby, Python, Node.js) and web frameworks (e.g., Django, Rails), modern front-end web programming techniques (e.g., HTML5, CSS3, RESTful APIs) and frameworks (e.g., Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery), relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL), and "NoSQL” databases (e.g., Cassandra, MongoDB), automated configuration management (e.g., Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt), continuous integration/deployment, and continuous monitoring solutions; use version control systems (e.g., Git and GitHub); ensure strategic alignment of technical design and architecture to meet business growth and direction, and stay on top of emerging technologies; decompose business and system architecture to support clean-interface multi-team development; develop product roadmaps, backlogs, and measurable success criteria, and write user stories (i.e., can establish a path to delivery for breaking down stories) and clearly communicate and work with stakeholders at every level.

Skills Required

The Technical Architect will possess knowledge and experience in analyses and development of conceptual designs and detail designs; developing JBOSS Messaging and connectivity with Spring-JMS connectivity; designing DB schema as per the requirements and in sync with the old system; implementing the daily and weekly jobs that interact with external interfaces; coordinating with business stakeholders to understand their requirements; communicate with cross-divisional personnel at both team and executive levels to understand performance measurement methodologies; and direct team members in compiling business requirements and executing project milestones.

Skills Preferred

Strong understanding of security best practices for cloud and on-premises deployments Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills Ability to manage and mentor technical teams Experience working in Agile development methodologies Problem-solving and analytical skills

Experience Required

This classification must have a minimum of eight (8) years of experience in systems development, analysis, programming or testing.

Experience Preferred

Dynamics 365 experience (4+ years): Experience in Microsoft Dynamics 365 (Customer Service) with experience in multiple versions (e.g., D365 2016, 2013) Experience of Dynamics 365 customization and configuration (forms, workflows, web resources) Experience with Dynamics 365 SDK, plugin development, and custom workflow/action development Experience with tools like Ribbon Workbench, XRM Toolbox, and other Dynamics 365 utilities Experience leveraging Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate) for integrations Microsoft Power Platform experience (4+ years): Experience with all aspects of the Microsoft Power Platform: Power Apps: Building and deploying canvas apps and model-driven apps Data connections and integrations with various data sources User interface design and user experience best practices Power Automate: Creating and managing automated workflows across different applications and services Utilizing triggers, actions, conditions, and connectors Building robust and scalable automation solutions Dataverse: Experience in data modeling concepts and best practices Managing security and governance within Dataverse Azure Cloud experience (4+ years): Extensive experience with Azure cloud services, including: API Management Logic Apps Azure Functions Azure SQL Database or other Azure database services Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates Experience of DevOps principles and practices for cloud deployments Data Management experience (4+ years): Data migration concepts and methodologies Experience in migrating or importing data to Microsoft Dataverse Experience with data cleansing and transformation techniques

Education Required

This classification requires the possession of a bachelor's degree in an IT-related or Engineering field. Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis.

Education Preferred

Azure solution architect certification Power Platform certification

Additional Information

Flexible position available for on-premises or 100% remote work. The interview process will consist of no more than two (2) interviews.