Enterprise Azure Software Architect (Onsite) (Fort Worth)

SUMMARY :

The Enterprise Azure Architect is responsible for :

• Ensure delivered solutions are realized in time frame committed; work in conjunction with project sponsors to size and manage scope and risk.
• Act as the coach and mentor to team members and technical staff on their assigned project tasks.
• Advocate and define Azure cloud architecture vision from a strategic perspective, including internal and external platforms, tools, and systems.
• Analyze the design, implementation and testing of cloud based and on-prem software solutions.
• Provide architectural and technical guidance to a distributed development team, i.e., in-house and third-party.
• Work closely with the executive team to define product direction and design.
• Optimize infrastructure for cost and efficiency.
• Lead the design, development, integration, and debugging of systems and applications.
• Perform requirements analysis, system / software design and analysis, development / software metric creation and analysis, system risk analysis, integration, and test metrics.
• Provide support and technical governance, expertise related to cloud architectures, deployment, and operations.

Technical Skills and Proficiencies :

• Deep understanding in the areas of Applications and Infrastructure in Cloud Compute workloads in Azure.
• Strong understanding of SOA, object-oriented analysis and design, and / or client / server systems.
• Sound understanding and firsthand experience architecting edge and IoT solutions.
• Expertise in software architecture design, distributed systems, microservice architectures, and data distribution strategies.
• Knowledge of data stores and both SQL and NOSQL databases (including performance tuning), such as SQL Server, Azure Cosmos, MySQL, Hadoop, DynamoDB, Redis, MongoDB, or Cassandra.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Azure cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability).
• Knowledge of modern Agile / DevOps tool chains and processes, including CI / CD, tracking of project metrics, unifying development and operations, etc.
• Understanding of client / server and distributed system / cloud architecture patterns.
• Experience with REST APIs.
• Familiarity with cloud storage, such as Azure Storage or equivalent.
• Databricks experience is a plus.

Qualifications :

• 10 years of hands-on experience in the application design, development and delivery of software products.
• 5+ years in an Enterprise Cloud (Azure) Architect role in previous large-scale software development projects, preferably SaaS delivery model.
• 3+ years experience in architecting and designing container frameworks used to run microservices or data processing workloads.
• Extensive experience developing and delivering commercial enterprise software.
• Experience with front end technologies, such as Angular and React in a development environment.
• Firsthand development experience with the Java stack, knowledge of Spring.
• Experience in developing software systems, which employ data mining, machine learning, or statistical techniques, methods, and algorithms.
• Experience with Progressive Web Applications.

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