Architect

Location: Noida Berger Tower, India

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Present in India since 1953, Thales is headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and has operational offices and sites spread across Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune among others. Over 1800 employees are working with Thales and its joint ventures in India. Since the beginning, Thales has been playing an essential role in India’s growth story by sharing its technologies and expertise in Defence, Transport, Aerospace and Digital Identity and Security markets.

Job Summary

At mobile connectivity and Solutions business line at Thales, we are committed to revolutionize today's and tomorrow's mobile connectivity. If you desire to be a part of building this increasingly connected world and wish to work in areas of IOT, eSIM, Trusted Digital Identity and 5G then we are hiring

We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect for our Cloud OTA product line who can straddle both business requirements and technology implementations to deliver robust, enterprise-class solutions. The Solution Architect role is one of the core leadership roles in all of our implementations. This role encompasses aspects of Technical Architect and Subject Matter Expert. The Solution Architect owns the design of all functional and technical aspects of a solution.

**Job Skills & Qualifications**:
**Education, experience**:

- Masters or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Information Systems or equivalent work experience is required.
- A** minimum 8 years** of total IT experience.
- Minimum 3 years experience in Thales

**Technical Skills**:
**Architecture & Deployment**
- Sound knowledge and hands on with **Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins & Microservices**.
- Expert knowledge on SQL and Non SQL databases like Cassandra.
- Sound knowledge on deployment over AWS/GCP.
- Good knowledge on software security principles.
- Knowledge of VMware, Openstack, Kibana, Elastic search or Data dog is good to have.

**Development & Validation**
- Experience in **micro-services** architectures.
- Expert developer in Java8 and Java EE 7 or higher: CDI, Tom EE or Wildfly or liberty.
- Expert on TDD (Junit, Mockito, Pact, Jococo) & ATDD.
- Expert in defining test strategies.
- Expert in Log4j2, REST API & Linux.
- Python knowledge is good to have

**Delivery Tools**
- Good knowledge on CI/CD(Mercurial, Git, Maven, Jenkins)
- Experience on Static code analysis with Sonar, Fortify etc is required.
- Knowledge on confluence will be a plus.

**Soft skills**:

- Humbe, Hungry & People smart (Emotional Intelligence).
- Agile mindset who understans the importance of validation & DOD.
- Autonomous, Curious & team player
- Ability to work within a team
- Good communication and inter-personal interaction skills
- Problem solving mindset
- Capable of listening and interact with users (worldwide) and either solve their immediate problems or propose a new feature to fit their needs
- Must be a quick learner and adapt to new tools and technologies