DESCRIPTION

You are curious, persistent, logical and clever – a true techie at heart. You enjoy living by the code of your craft and developing elegant solutions for complex problems. If this sounds like you, this could be the perfect opportunity to join EPAM as a Java Solution Architect . Scroll down to learn more about the position’s responsibilities and requirements.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design large-scale solutions using Java - version(s) 8+
• Create solution architecture document on a good level with deep technical details
• Work closely with business in identifying solution requirements and key case studies/scenarios for the future solution
• Conduct solution architecture review/audit and create review/audit report
• Lead implementation of the solution from establishing project requirements and goals to solution "go-live"
• Oversee the development efforts and provide technical help as needed
• Participate in the full cycle of pre-sale activities:
  • Direct communications with potential customers
  • RFP processing
  • The development of proposals for implementation and design of the solution
  • Presentation for proposed solution architecture to customer
  • Participation in meetings with customer representatives
• Participation in customer’s workshops and presentation of the proposed solution
• Directly communicate with customers during solution architecture design or solution implementation activities
• Maintain a strong understanding of industry trends and best practices
• Create and follow personal education plan in the technology stack and solution architecture
• Conduct advisory on the creation of personal education plan for colleagues

REQUIREMENTS

• 7+ years’ experience in hands-on development of solutions of different nature - web applications, web services, desktop applications, native mobile applications - on J2EE 8+ (JavaScript experience is nice-to-have)
• Deep expertise in solution architecture - web application architectures; web services architectures; relational and non-relational data storage specific; web application back-end architecture; solution cross-cutting concerns (security, monitoring, caching, etc)
• Strong understanding of mission-critical application architecture design; scalable application architecture design; high-performance application architecture design
• 5+ years’ experience developing relational and non-relational data storages
• 5+ years’ experience in team leadership
• 3+ years’ experience in project management and direct customer communications
• Strong expertise in architectural styles; enterprise architecture patterns; integration patterns; development patterns; architecture artifacts and deliverables; solution architecture design approaches and practices; change management processes
• Understand performance issues and approaches to address them systematically
• Proactive approach and leadership in architecture engagement
• Experience in customer site assignments
• Strong communications skills: ability to communicate message to customer representatives, listen and manage their concerns; ability to read context and people
• Strong background using various libraries, frameworks, and patterns
• Strong background in design and implementation of external services integrations using REST, SOAP and/or ESB
• Proven knowledge of cloud technologies and migration strategies. Experience in building cloud-native solutions
• Strong experience with multiple full lifecycle software development processes, approaches and methods (SCRUM & RUP)