IT Architect - Software Engineer

Maximus is a company that focuses on providing innovative solutions in the IT sector. They are seeking an IT Architect - Software Engineer who will be responsible for developing data integration and migration, ensuring optimal processes within teams, and providing guidance and training to other employees.

Responsibilities:

• Participate fully in release and integration planning meetings by providing input on backlog prioritization, by providing adequate and timely acceptance criteria for new or enhanced software designs, and by explaining costs and efficiencies of backlog items to product managers and other stakeholders
• Identify when architectural spikes are needed, and provide enough design for proof of concept
• Transition architectural knowledge to scrum teams
• Typically responsible for providing guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within job area
• Responsible for development of Data Integration and Data migration
• Develop and maintain ETL (Talend) jobs and proficient in DDL /DML (MYSQL database)
• Responsible for load testing, Performance tuning
• Production support activities as needed
• Collaborate with other team members, product owners, Service Delivery and QE Managers to provide optimal solutions, remove bottlenecks and implement agile best practices
• Strong analytical skills to help development teams and infrastructure teams to determine the scaling limits and auto-scaling requirements for services, apps, and infrastructure scaling
• Strong knowledge of determining the bottlenecks in different area levels like UI, backend, database, messaging services like solace, apigee, server side
• Ensure optimal process in the team's ability to prioritize demand, efficient assignment of work, and timeline commitments are met
• Champion the technical best practices
• Actively participate in the CI and CD process
• Our job descriptions evolve with our business needs and priorities. Your role may have additional responsibilities to ensure we adapt to changing business demands

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 7+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Bachelor of Science, Math, Engineering, Computer Science
• 7+ years of strong ETL experience with minimum 3 years of Talend
• Experience in SOAP/REST web service implementation in Talend
• Good understanding of databases - ORACLE RDBMS or MySQL or SQL Server
• Experience in developing transformations with file formats like JSON, XML, CSV and flat files
• Understanding of Event Driven Micro services Architecture (MSA)
• Understanding of messaging platforms such as Solace, ActiveMQ etc
• Good knowledge of deployment methodologies and best practices
• Experience in working with Agile development methodologies
• Strong presentation and communication skills (written and verbal)
• Strong analytical, problem solving and critical thinking
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment under deadlines in a changing environment
• Ability to work as a team member, as well as independently
• Must be organized and detail oriented
• Proficient in using Git, Jira, Confluence
• Experience in interacting with business analysts, developers, and diverse set of teams