Advanced Technology Specialist

Job Title: Technical Solutions Architect

We are seeking a highly skilled Technical Solutions Architect to join our team. As a key member of our technology group, you will be responsible for designing and developing innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of our business.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development and architecture, with a proven track record of delivering high-quality solutions on time and on budget. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and develop technical strategies that align with our overall goals.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop web and enterprise solutions that are flexible, scalable, and extensible.
• Improve complex data flow, data structures, and database design to move to next platform.
• Enforce good agile practices like test-driven development and Continuous Integration.
• Hands-on development will be an integral part of the responsibilities.
• Develop areas of continuous and automated deployment.
• Introduce and follow good development practices, innovative frameworks, and technology solutions that help business move faster.
• Follow best practices like estimation, planning, reporting, and improvement brought to processes in every day work.
• Analyse and review system requirements. Use requirement and other design documents to gain overall understanding of the functionality of the new or enhanced application.
• Participate actively in the design, architecture, and build phases to aim at producing high-quality deliverables.
• Provide recommendations on product and development environment improvements.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Minimum 10 years of experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience in Java 8 and later versions, Advanced Java, Spring Boot, MVC, etc.
• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with microservices-based architecture.
• Very strong knowledge of databases and hands-on experience with MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
• Experience with building REST-based APIs.
• Well-versed with DevOps practices.
• Working knowledge of Docker and containerization.
• Experience in analysis, design, coding, and implementation of large-scale, n-tier Java-based platforms.
• Knowledge of any JavaScript framework like Vue, Angular JS (version >2)/ NodeJS, etc.
• Awareness of activities in the open-source world. Contributing back to open source is a big plus.
• Distributed computing with experience in cloud computing (Amazon Web Services platform and associated technologies).
• Experience with modern development practices in areas of product design, requirement analysis, test-driven development, automation unit testing, in a product development environment.
• Excellent listening, written, and verbal communication skills.

Benefits:

• Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week.
• We've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis, at least three days each week.

Others:

Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.