XceedSearch Online is hiring a Principal Application Architect

About the Role Salary up to $180K plus 10% bonus and benefits Hybrid Role 2 In 3 Remote Near Sky Harbor Airport The Principal Applications Architect will bring a balance of technology and business strategy focus to company. What you’ll do: • Specialize in one or more business verticals of company to provide domain specific solutions. • Work with the project teams to recommend the architecture approach for applications and define in an increasing level of detail as the project progresses. • Lead design review process and ensure recommendations made are understood by recipients and are monitored during the project life cycle. • Research, analyze and recommend new technologies, frameworks, processes, and tools to further company’s technology architecture. • Be able to explain and educate complex solutions and integrations in a clear and articulate manner, using illustrative techniques (e.g., UML diagrams) as necessary. • Develop Proof of Concepts that may include, analysis of problem, finding an optimal solution, design, development, and documentation. • Contribute to the troubleshooting of difficult application production issues including performance tuning, memory management, database or other environment and architecture related issues. • Provide thought leadership by educating and sharing best practices, building deep relationships with organization leaders, conducting brown bag sessions, mentoring junior team members, and writing white papers. • Collaborate with various company teams to define application standards, conventions, and best practices. • Report and escalate to senior management as needed. • Execute other job duties as assigned. You have these skills: • Critical thinking ability to analyze and solve complex problems. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills. • Excellent interpersonal skills and can communicate effectively at all levels - with the team, peers and with senior management of the company. • Comfortable in situations that are ambiguous and can juggle between multiple tasks and rapidly changing priorities. And these qualifications: • Bachelor’s Degree in technology related field. • Ten (10) years of experience in relevant software and IT related projects. • Four (4) years of experience performing as a full-time architect. • Possess a high degree of technical expertise with foundational architectural principles in building Java and cloud based distributed systems. • Expertise in application development using the following technologies: • Java EE • Spring boot • Application servers (e.g. Tomcat, JBoss) • Messaging (e.g. Active MQ, JBoss messaging) • Database technologies (RDBMS and NoSQL DBs) • Linux/Unix • Cloud computing (AWS experience preferred) • Excellent grasp of application security concerns and remediation techniques. • Knowledge of networking, infrastructure, and storage components. • Well-rounded technical background in current web and micro-service technologies. • Experience working with business users in defining processes and translating those to available solutions. • This is a hybrid position