Cloud Application Architect

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

A global IT consulting and services company. A global technology leader and a catalyst of sustainable societal change. In that same spirit – and building on its technology heritage – The company is a catalyst for positive business change, propelling companies ahead by enabling superior operational performance. Working within their existing processes and focusing on targeted functional challenges, we help our clients respond to dynamic global change with insight and agility.

ABOUT KGTiger: 

A professional services consulting firm hired to directly source prospective candidates. The company’s strategy of maintaining long-term relationships has created a success paradigm that nets great benefits for candidates and clients. Your confidentiality is totally respected. Resumes and other employment-related information are not shared with the client until we have secured your permission. Likewise, we may be asked to maintain client confidentiality.

The Java/AWS Cloud Application Architect will be a key contributor to our Strategic Technology Solutions practice

The incumbent must be adaptable to changing technology environments, and work collaboratively with all participants in a software development project, particularly in co-development (client and our teams), cross cultural, fast-paced teams, in a “one-team” spirit. Also, should have oral and excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Must have:
1. Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, mathematics, or equivalent experience
2. Experience in full life-cycle of software development or methodology such as RUP or Agile; requirements analysis, design, development, testing and implementation
3. Experience leading and managing teams of developers
4. Experience working in a global delivery model leveraging offshore locations
5. Demonstrated success in performing work and managing complex and/or large consulting projects
POSITION
SPECIFICATION
6. over six (6) years of experience in Custom Application Design & Development utilizing Java, J2EE, UNIX/Linux, PL/SQL, Data Structures, Design Patterns, Algorithms and Optimizations, Object-Oriented design, Shell scripting
7. Over (5) years of development using JavaScript, JSP, HTML, AJAX, CSS, HTTP
8. Over (5) years of experience in JQuery, Bootstrap, JavaScript frameworks, EXT JS, Angular, React
9. Over (5) years of expertise in Service Oriented Design & implementing RESTful APIs in n-tier architectures
10. Over (4) years of expertise designing and scaling cloud-based applications (AWS).
11. Configuration and deployment experience in the following:
- AWS apps technologies such as RDS, ElasticBeanstalk, DynamoDB, RedShift
- AWS IaaS Technologies such as EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, VPC, Route 53,
- Deployed applications with Web UI frontends
- Deployed application with RESTful/SOAP services interfaces
12. Over (3) years of experience and knowledge of SOA/micro-services (using Spring Framework)
13. Strong Data Modeling skills, preferably using both Relational (Oracle, MySQL etc.) and NoSQL (Cassandra, DocumentDB, MongoDB, etc.)
14. Strong database knowledge and working experience with MySQL/ Cassandra/ Titan/ Hadoop/ MongoDB/ ElasticSearch/ Redis
15. Proficient with SOAP, WSDL, XSD, JSON, Web services and XML
16. Understanding of Agile software development, Continuous Integration, GIT workflow and version control (Jira/Perforce/SVN/Bugzilla/GIT/GitFlow)
17. Experience with Integration Testing, Unit Test frameworks, and Test Automation tools
18. Experience with automation technologies like CloudFormation, Jenkins, Chef and Puppet
19. Experience with JBOSS, Apache, Tomcat servers
20. Experience with optimization of queuing and message brokers (JMS, ActiveMQ, Qpid, RabbitMQ)

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.