Technical Architect

The Role – Technical Architect
Join us on a transformative journey as we migrate our document and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) platform from mainframe-based applications to a cloud-based platform on AWS. As an Technical Architect with a strong background in software engineering, you'll play a key role in driving this transformation by setting among our workstreams, designing and implementing scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions that leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and DevOps practices. You'll work closely with our software development teams to ensure that our cloud infrastructure is optimized for our applications, and that our applications are designed to take full advantage of the cloud infrastructure, with development processes aligned with cloud best practices.

You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, architects, and other stakeholders to make key technical decisions, drive technical excellence, and ensure that our cloud infrastructure and applications are highly performant, secure, and scalable. Your expertise will be crucial in shaping the future of our cloud infrastructure and applications, and in driving the adoption of cloud technologies and practices across our team.

If you're passionate about cloud computing, software development, and driving technical innovation with the goal of enabling a seamlessly operating, scalable platform for our users, we invite you to apply and help shape the future of our cloud infrastructure and applications.

Your Responsibilities

• Work closely within a cross-functional Product team in which you enable the application developers by understanding requirements, designing, & implementing the solutions with AWS resources
• Combine theoretical best practices such as the AWS Well-Architected Framework with your personal experience to find the best solution for our current challenges
• Engage in Platform & Enterprise Architecture rounds to promote company-wide adoption
• Evaluate and implement security and compliance strategies, ensuring cloud environments meet industry & internal standards as efficiently as possible
• Bring in your experience by promoting technical advancements
• Research trends and evaluate their adoption in our practical world (e.g. GenAI, automation..)
• Continually optimize cloud infrastructure for scalability, security, and performance to maximize reliability, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of our platform.
• Design processes for collaboration with operation & application teams
• Lead migration projects from initial assessment to operating & optimization
• Review and refine cloud migration and infrastructure management processes, ensuring smooth transitions, continuous optimization and automation.

What We Are Looking For
Technical
Proven experience
with a wide range of AWS services:
Docker, ECS, Fargate

EC2

EKS

& more..

Proven ability to
design and implement performing systems
that can handle high load:

High performance

High throughput

Scalable systems

Multi-threading/high parallelization

Ensuring applications can handle high loads & meet business needs

CI/CD
Maven, NPM, GitLab CI, AWS CodeBuild

Automation tools like Renovate Bot

Semantic Release to streamline deployments

Security & Compliance
AWS Security Hub

Checkmarx

Demonstrating a strong security awareness with experience in threat modeling and related practices

Complex
Infrastructure as Code
AWS CDK with TypeScript

Alternative: Terraform and willing to learn CDK

Database & Storage
:

Managing cloud-based relational databases like MySQL

schema management using Liquibase

NoSQL databases like MongoDB

Scalable storage solutions like Amazon S3.

Software Engineering
Java programming on enterprise level

Experience with Spring Boot

Messaging Systems
Kafka

Queueing systems

Monitoring & Observability
Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch

Datadog, Open Telemetry

Software Engineering
: Strong foundation in Java programming on enterprise level and experience with Spring Boot

Personal

• You are enthusiastic about your role
• You want to deliver value to the team and organization
• You want to fully understand a problem, come up with solutions & implement them to see your work running smoothly in production
• You have software engineering background, but now love to enable them
• You have worked effectively in multinational teams
• You can communicate effectively in English
• You can prove your expertise by either
• Having 6+ years of experience in a similar role & tech stack or
• Having AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certificate or
• Having strong project references in which you played a key role
• You don't like manual work and want to automate recurring tasks
• You like to work independently and with teammates
• You want to drive solutions, not just sit in the back-seat