Technical Architect

Technical Architect Location: Research Triangle Park, NC Duration: 6+ Months, long term potential Role Summary This role is responsible for the development and implementation of technology architecture for complex applications and solutions in a challenging business domain. Works directly with product and engineering teams in an Agile environment. Responsibilities Include: • Translates and incorporates business vision and strategy to best fit architectural strategy recommendations for very large projects and applications. • Drives adoption of enterprise standards and best practices. Promotes changes in process, standards, or technologies when necessary. • Develops, communicates, and oversees implementation of architecture and technology standards. Works directly with engineering and product teams. Participates in management and executive product and architectural discussions. • Anticipates applicability of major industry trends in the large project or business unit level and implements plans. Develops or executes Proof of Concepts (POC’s) to assess technical and business benefits. • Participates in critical problem solving and advanced troubleshooting as necessary. • Effectively addresses functional and quality goals of systems during design activities. Applies appropriate approaches to assessing tradeoffs among architectural goals. Specific Knowledge/Skills/Experience: • Proficiency in multiple enterprise technologies, architectural styles, and techniques. Ability to quickly acquire skills. Experience with Java, .NET, varied service interaction styles, messaging, and enterprise databases. • Knowledge and mastery of multiple architectural skills within enterprise standards, including frameworks, blueprints, and architecture patterns. • Demonstrated ability to manage conceptual and abstract problem domains. • Use of modeling techniques – such as use case, scenario modeling, prototyping, benchmarking, and performance modeling – to describe the problem space, to size the solution and to validate that the proposed architecture addresses the business requirements. • Expertise in applying architecture assessment methodologies. • Industry and technology trend analysis. • Bachelor’s degree minimum. • 10+ years experience in designing, implementing and delivering large complex systems • Financial Industry experience a plus. • Experience designing systems involving services, messaging, integration, and event-driven capabilities required. • Knowledge of Java Middle-Tier frameworks and platforms preferred. • Database knowledge – Oracle preferred. • Functional programming and related platform experience is a plus. • Distributed caches and in-memory data grids a plus. • Hadoop, Spark, or other “Big Data” experience a plus. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.