Java Architect

Tasks

• Design high-level application architecture that is scalable, maintainable, and aligned with modern development practices.
• Define application frameworks, component interactions, and integration points
• Evaluate appropriate technologies, platforms, and tools.
• Lead the development of architectural blueprints and technical documentation.
• Ensure adherence to coding standards, design principles, and security practices.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams on CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud deployment strategies.
• Participate in code reviews and ensure architectural integrity across teams.
• Guide development teams through technical decisions and challenges.
• Monitor and improve application performance, reliability and scalability.
• Identify technical debt and work toward continuous improvement.
• Analysis of the integration of different information systems.
• Data analysis and data modelling.
• Participation in technical working groups, progress meetings and meetings with the users.
• Assistance during relevant parts of testing, analysis, technical documentation, deployment, evaluation and reporting.
• Analysis, design and implementations of services and components in a domain driven architecture.
• Provision of technical expertise, feasibility/risk/impact analysis and evaluations in relation with information systems.
• Act as a senior full stack developer and technical lead. Develop and review code when needed.
• Familiar with Agile practices. Willing to help the team mature in Agile driven processes.
• Provision of security assessments and solutions associated with information systems.
• Review, evaluate and test applications or (also third party) components to ensure integration with the other application components, and compliance with the requirements and standards.

Requirements

• B2 level of English minimum. Any knowledge of French is an asset.
• At least 10 years of experience with Architecture Design
• Including experience with architecture design patterns, enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF), and multi-tier application design.
• At least 10 years of experience with Micro-services
• Experience with microservices design, event-driven architecture, eventual consistency, and transitioning from monolith to microservices.
• At least 10 years of experience with Cloud Native applications
• Design and development of cloud-native solutions leveraging containerization, orchestration, and scalable cloud services.
• At least 10 years of experience with Java/JEE
• Strong experience with Java frameworks including Spring Boot; migrations across Java versions.
• At least 5 years of experience with Angular 2 plus
• Experience with Angular 2+ (preferably Angular 18), modern UI paradigms, and client-side scripting.
• At least 5 years of experience with Cloud DevSecOps
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization (Docker), service discovery (Consul), secrets management (Vault), and security frameworks (OAuth2, OpenID Connect).
• At least 5 years of experience with Cloud & Container Services
• Experience with container orchestration, CaaS, and cloud infrastructure management.
• At least 5 years of experience with Architecture Enforcement & Review
• Experience enforcing architectural decisions at the pull request level and implementing architecture-as-code practices.
• At least 5 years of experience with Observability/Monitoring Tools
• Use of Dynatrace, ElasticSearch, and Grafana for performance monitoring and logging.
• Architecture & Design
• Very good knowledge of architecture design patterns and enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF).
• Very good knowledge of applications design, including multi-tier applications.
• Strong experience with transitioning from monolith to microservices architecture.
• Very good knowledge of microservices and cloud architecture.
• Relevant and proved experience with event-driven architecture, eventual consistency, and microservice orchestration.
• Good knowledge of interoperability technologies: web services, message-oriented middleware (MOM), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), and service-oriented architecture (SOA).
• Programming & Development
• Strong experience with Java (JEE/Jakarta EE), including migrations (Java 8 to Java 21, J2EE to Jakarta EE 8).
• Strong experience with Spring ecosystem (Spring Framework, Spring Boot).
• Front-end experience with Angular (2+), ideally latest versions, and modern UI paradigms (client-side scripting, React).
• Experience in object-oriented design, reusable component design, and UML modelling.
• Experience with RESTful API design and WS SOAP development (Oracle WebLogic, Oracle SOA Suite).
• Familiarity with XML, XSD, SOAP, JAX-WS, JAXB, WSDL, JAX-RPC.
• Cloud & Infrastructure
• Proven experience with cloud-native applications and Containers as a Service (CaaS).
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Strong experience with Docker images and containers.
• Relevant experience with Vault (secrets management) and Consul (service discovery).
• Experience with API Gateway and API validation tools (OpenAPI/Swagger).
• Proved experience with NGINX server.
• Integration & Messaging
• Strong practical experience with Kafka.
• Experience with Message-Oriented Middleware and Enterprise Service Bus technologies.
• Strong experience with event-driven systems and microservice orchestration.
• Databases & Persistence
• Good knowledge of relational DBMS (PostgreSQL and Oracle).
• Experience with dedicated database per domain and interoperability patterns.
• Experience with Redis for session and cache management.
• Experience with Liquibase for database migrations.
• Familiarity with PL/SQL, SQL, Hibernate, JPA.
• Testing, Quality & CI/CD
• Experience with unit and integration testing frameworks: JUnit, DbUnit, ArchUnit, in-memory databases.
• Experience with automated testing and branch management.
• Experience with cloud-native CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Jenkins, Sonar, Bitbucket, GitLab for continuous integration and code quality.
• Experience with architecture decision enforcement at pull request level before merging
• Experience with automation test frameworks.
• Monitoring & Logging
• Experience with Dynatrace, ElasticSearch, and Grafana.
• Experience with Cloud Native observability.
• Security
• Experience with OAuth2 and OpenID Connect.
• Experience with Vault for properties and secrets management.
• Tools & Miscellaneous
• Experience with version control tools (GIT).
• Familiarity with development tools and IDEs (IntelliJ, Eclipse).
• Experience with build tools and dependency management (Maven, Ant).
• Experience with SoapUI for web service testing.
• Familiarity with Scrum and Agile methodologies.
• Practical experience with JSON, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• Soft Skills
• Strong analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to participate effectively in technical meetings
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to adapt to fast-changing technologies in application architecture and design.
• Commitment to applying high-quality standards.

Certificates

• Following certificates & standards are ideal for the performance of tasks:
• TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework)
• ITIL Foundation / ITIL 4 Certifications
• Certified Software Architect (IASA Global)
• Certified DevSecOps Professional (CDP)
• Oracle Certified Professional : Java SE Programmer
• Spring Professional Certification
• Certified Angular Developer
• Certified Cloud Security Professional
• Certified OAuth 2.0 Specialist