Java Technical Architect

About Sopra Steria

Sopra Steria, a major Tech player in Europe with 51,000 employees in nearly 30 countries, is recognized for its consulting, digital services and software development. It helps its clients drive their digital transformation and obtain tangible and sustainable benefits. The Group provides end-to-end solutions to make large companies and organizations more competitive by combining in-depth knowledge of a wide range of business sectors and innovative technologies with a fully collaborative approach. Sopra Steria places people at the heart of everything it does and is committed to putting digital to work for its clients in order to build a positive future for all. In 2024, the Group generated revenues of €5.8 billion.

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Job Description – Architect

Technical architect required with strong technical expertise in latest technologies and trend to propose highly scalable future ready solution. Good familiarity with frontend and backend technologies. He/She must be familiar with software design methods and techniques. Ideally, he/she must also have good communication and analytical skills and good at analyzing both the business and technical requirements for a software program and develop design solutions to meet the needs.

• Proven experience as software architect
• Very strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Experience in latest technologies and trend to propose highly scalable future ready solution
• Ability to learn new platforms, frameworks and programming languages and adopt changes
• Ability to propose technological transformation and innovative solutions to customer
• Ability to monitoring the work of other Architects and making recommendations or scheduling workshops as required
• Excellent knowledge of software and application design and architecture
• Excellent knowledge of UML and other modeling methods
• Familiarity with HTML/CSS, JavaScript and UI/UX design
• Self-starter and highly motivated with passion for emerging technologies and trends
• Ability to understand "as is" system and should be able to define/recommend target architecture along with evolution and roadmap
• Ability to evaluate and recommend tools/technologies/solution based on research and study supported by proof of concept
• Ability to capture requirements, perform analysis and create architecture & design (OOAD)
• Ability to translate requirements to working, robust and scalable software. 
• Good working knowledge of application maintenance and development project being executed in different life cycles i.e. waterfall, iterative, v-Model, agile etc.
• Draws specialized knowledge of analysis especially in influencing business requirement taking feasibility and constraints into consideration
• Mentoring designers through the detailed design process
• Reviewing designs as they are completed to ensure conformance to the system's architectural principles, arbitrating technology disputes

Mandatory technical skills:

• Must have good aptitude and analytical skills
• Must have hands-on experience on various CI/CD and DevOps tools
• Must have hands-on experience in Application security and application performance management tools – Jprofiler/JMeter etc.
• Handson experience of estimation, its reviews, sizing projects
• Java & Frameworks : Spring, Java Springboot, Junit, JaxB, JHipster
• Java Script Framework : Angular/React
• Good knowledge of programming platforms and languages like: Go, Groovy, Play
• Knowledge of Cucumber, Undertow
• Working experience of Agile/SCRUM/Kanban methodologies
• Good working understanding on Micro services, Docker and Kubernetes
• Must have experience in software development and coding in various languages (Java, PL/SQL etc. and knowledge on .Net)
• Must have strong hands on experience in working software engineering Tools and integrating them using scripts / open source / JAVA / J2EE
• Good to have lead or part of 1 or 2 technological transformation journey for customer 
• Experience or knowledge of React, JQuery, NodeJS, Elastic Search, Docker, Python, Scala & VBA
• Total Experience Expected: 08-10 years

B.Tech or MCA

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