SR. ARCHITECT JAVA AND GCP

Role: SR. ARCHITECT JAVA AND GCP
Location: Westlake, TX (Onsite)
Hire Type: FULL-TIME

Responsibilities:

• Perform product analysis and development tasks of increasingly complex nature which may require extensive research and analysis.
• Work independently in the development, testing, implementation and maintenance of complex systems with fast turn-around.
• Provide detailed analysis of problems, prepare detailed design documents with recommendations.
• Apply innovation, creativity and improvement to development process and implement process and procedural improvements.
• Stay current with technology and industry best practices to ensure proper utilization of these in software development.
• Work on multiple projects utilizing and leading global/offshore teams.

• Provide adequate and proactive support for various applications.

Experience:

Qualifications:

• 4 year degree in Computer Science or related experience
• Experience with Architecture design of multi-tiered client/server applications.
• Able to interpret business requirements and programming specifications to write Java programs that solve business needs.
• Significant exposure to and demonstrated proficiency in all aspects of programming and analysis, including design factors, software requirements, systems facilities, and execution protocols.
• Must be well organized and self motivated and be able to work with minimal supervision.
• Strong verbal/written communication skills.
• Ability to work with others in a team environment.
• Ability to work on aggressive schedules. May require work beyond normal hours (weekends or evenings).
• Ability to lead and influence other developers onshore as well as offshore.

Technical Skills:

• Must haves:
  • Extensive experience with Java 8 and higher language construct and features.
  • Strong working experience in service-oriented architecture, SOLID design principles, coding practices and designing enterprise-level applications and data pipelines.
  • Experience with large scale application modernization and migration to Cloud hyperscalars.
  • Expertise in GCP and related technologies with strong GCE, Cloud Storage, PubSub, BigQuery, App Engine, Cloud Run, Anthos/GKE containerization.
  • Expertise with streaming and messaging technologies (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ)
  • Expertise with multithreaded UI based on Swing UI libraries and UI extensions, Java FX, J2SE, J2EE, JDBC, JMS, JMX, JNI, Design Patterns, Rest services.
  • Strong understanding and working experience with Spring boot, Spring Batch, Spring Integration, REST, SOAP and RMIs.
  • Strong understanding of batch processing of large data sets
  • Strong Caching and large data sets handling (experience with any: Redis, Aerospike, Ehcache, GigaSpaces, Hazelcast or any others)
  • Very Strong PostgresSQL and Oracle
  • Ability to develop on Linux / Windows / MAC OS
  • Strong knowledge of various configuration/source code management tools (Git, Bitbucket, Confluence, JIRA, Bamboo, TeamCity)
• Pluses:
  • Strong knowledge of complex Options, Futures, Order Matching and Routing principles
  • Experience converting hardware-based server-side components to VM based (containerization: Kubernetes, Docker or other).
  • GWT

o Experience in the financial/brokerage industry