Lead Solutions Architect - SOA - 24 months Contract

This position with a healthcare client, our partner had a lot of success with in the past.

MUST be local to the Bay Area (commuting distance to Oakland) they are working remote right now but these contracts are multiple years so they will only consider candidates that are local.

No coast-to-coast relocation candidates.

Prefer USC/GC

Solutions Architect (SOA) - Oakland, CA - 12+ months

POSITION OVERVIEW:

• Lead Solutions Architect and Developer for a group of 5 to 8 people team with focuses on architecture, design, development of platform and solutions for mobile and web.
• Full stack solution development supervision with hands-on development.
• Create Software Architecture document, High-Level and Low-Level Design document, Nonfunctional requirements for the project.
• POC creation using new technologies such as NLP, greenfield solution development and scaling.
• Collaborate with Product Owner/Program Manager/Business and Technical Analysts to understand functional requirements and interact with other cross-functional teams to architect, design, develop, test, and release features.
• Develop in latest microservices environment with ownership on deployment and resilient development.
• Developing across the full stack of Web technologies: Persistence, Services, Platform, Performances, and with a focus on great experiences.
• Demonstrate broad solutions technical leadership, impacting significant technical direction, exerting influence outside of the immediate team and driving change.
• Perform code reviews and code refactoring to increase application scale, reduce latency and code duplication.
• Create processes to optimize and automate (wherever possible) development, builds and product quality.
• Constantly optimize the product and infrastructure for nonfunctional requirements (security, performance, flexibility, scale, and robustness).
• Constantly evaluate cutting edge technologies and suggest adopting specific technologies to improve business/ product efficiency.
• Managing the overall production deployment and infrastructure, providing best practice guidelines and process development for the Engineering Team.
• Define Integration Design and Security Design.
• Conduct active research on industry wide frameworks, staying abreast of latest technological trends, and integrating them into the platform needs.

EXPERIENCE PREREQUISITES:

• Technical Master s degree preferred (Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering).
• 12+ years of consulting and implementation experience in architecting, designing technical solutions to solve project related complex data problems within an Enterprise environment.
• 7+ years designing, building and maintaining large web systems at scale.
• 5+ years of experience in technology consulting, enterprise and solutions architecture and architectural frameworks.
• 5+ experience in event driven architecture and service.
• 5+ years of experience with Services development (REST and SOAP) Orchestration, API management and secure, role-based solution development.
• 5+ years with MSSQL (preferred) or Oracle (strong DB and SQL knowledge is a must) and MongoDB atabase experience.
• Define new architectures and ability to drive an independent project from an architectural standpoint.
• Complete project life cycle activities on development and maintenance projects.
• Collaboration with product teams/owners and UX to translate business requirements to technical requirements.
• Solid understanding of UI development including HTML/CSS, JQuery, and responsive design.
• Understanding of messaging systems, e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBMMQ.
• Experience in a DevOps culture with knowledge and experience with APIs, CICD pipeline, Containerization, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Extensive experience in database design and programming with relational, NoSQL databases and data warehouse concepts.
• Strong knowledge of software design patterns, Microservices, event driven and Cloud native architectures.
• Experience in defining solution architecture for large enterprise applications using Java/J2EE, Spring, Microservices, Hibernate and webservices (REST).
• Experience in implementing Webservices Security using WS-Security, SAML and integrating with Identity provides, LDAP and ADFS.
• Strong knowledge of J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, REST, Tomcat, Apache web server, Nginx, JavaScript.
• Experience working on UI sharing Web Components, Micro front-end, Control/Pattern libraries and tools.
• Knowledge of design and integration patterns specially in applications involving Portals/SSO, legacy applications, B2B Applications, external partners using ESB.
• Organizational awareness and the ability to work effectively at multiple levels within an organization. Equally comfortable in discussing technical and analytical details with technical thought leaders and explaining technical subject matter with a non-technical audience and high-level executives.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills; excellent project management skills and experience managing multiple work streams and projects at one time.
• Detail oriented, cross-browser implementation aware and hands-on performance optimizations.