* Application Architect in Chicago, IL

Essential Functions

  • Work within Agile methodology and play an active role in User Stories, Sprints, and Ceremonies.
  • Drive efficient DevOps methodology for full cycle Java development and deployment
  • Collaborate effectively with peers to solve complex problems spanning their respective areas and resolves technological disagreement with informed, rational debate.
  • Working with colleagues and technical resources to define technical solutions to meet business requirements using agreed tools and technologies
  • Develop application and service components that meet User story specifications and technical specifications
  • Ensure the US/India development team and Contractors develop solutions in line with Company’s standards and practices.
  • Perform code reviews for offshore India development team, Contractors and provide suggestions and guidance.
  • Understand Java performance analysis to identify the reasons for performance bottlenecks, Memory leaks and resource usage and provide effective suggestions/resolutions.
  • Propose tools and technologies to meet the business requirements as needed. Also ensure that the Technologies chosen align with the teams skill set and our Standards.
  • Identify and articulate Technical risks
  • Collaborate and work with Enterprise Architecture and other I/S teams

Skills, Experience and Education Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related 4 year degree.
  • Minimum 10+ years of experience
  • Hands On Programming Experience in Java, Struts/Spring, JEE
  • Full stack development experience
  • Programming patterns: Service-Oriented design and development
  • Highly proficient in Web development technologies including HTML5, CSS3, and various JavaScript development frameworks including jQuery, Angular JS and Bootstrap
  • Excellent understanding and ability to articulate SOA concepts and patterns.
  • Design and development of service resiliency to meet high availability and failover requirements
  • Experience with testing framework such as JUnit, Selenium a plus
  • Experience with Jenkins
  • The ability to understand, improve/optimize, and debug code.
  • Experience designing and developing data persistence layer.
  • Experience in relational database technology including understanding of SQL, object relational mapping and data translation
  • Use of caching technologies such as memcache, Redis, or ehcache
  • Design and use of authentication and authorization from the application and service levels; credentials, permissions from AD, ForgeRock, database driven or similar
  • Development and use of auditing and logging frameworks, including incorporating applications such as AppDynamics for end-to-end request tracking.
  • Experience with performance profiling tools.
  • Experience with JIRA or similar ALM for Agile artifacts
  • Experience with git preferred
  • Experience with setup, maintenance, deployment, management of Tomcat, JBoss, Wildfly or similar JEE container platforms.
  • Experience with Windows Server and Red Hat Linux operating systems
  • Strong attention to details with the ability to handle multiple projects/tasks simultaneously.
  • Strong problem solving characteristics with the ability to think out of the box.
  • Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with internal team members as well as business stakeholders.
  • Previous experience with integration with SAP is a plus
  • Experience with .NET/C# technologies and development and deployment practices is a plus.