Solution Architect (Information Systems)

SUMMARY:
Opportunity available!! Our leading client in the Automotive Manufacturing sector is looking to employ X2 Solutions Architects to join their dynamic IT Team in East London.

POSITION INFO:
Job Description: 

• Essential Experience in the following Technologies and Practices

• Java Application Development and Design
  • Frameworks – Springboot / Junit
  • Programming languages - Java / J2EE
• Scrum Master or Agile Methodology Training
• Development and DevOps Practices (Continuous Integration/ Agile Testing)
• Extensive experience with REST API’s design
  • OpenAPI standard 3.x
• Extensive experience with database technologies
  • PostgreSQL, IBM, DB2
• Extensive experience with build tools and servers: Maven, Apache, Tomcat / Jboss, Jenkins, IBM Websphere
• Experience with Kubernetes, including yaml files, runtime administration, deployment, logging, monitoring
• Experience with container orchestration: Docker, Docker swarm
• Experience with Cloud Technologies and design: Deployment and Hosting of Web Services in Cloud (Kubernetes)
• Experience with Message processing and caching mechanism: Kafka, Rabbit, MQ, Redis
• Experience with application monitoring tools: e.g. App Dynamics

• Requirements & Solution Design
• Collaborate with various business and IT stakeholders to understand product requirements.
• Defining technical requirements, blueprints, designs, and plans for the team to implement based on product requirements.
• Implement product, component and interface refactoring and migrations to newer technologies.
• Operational support for the application.
• Process support for setting up and establishment of connectivity of the system landscape development, testing and production
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes to ensure product quality. Provide prototypes and proof of concepts

• Team & Technical Leadership

• Act as an overall technical lead for the development process within a DevOps team, including
  • Source code management.
  • Software architecture / design.
  • Architecture discussions
  • Feature implementation.
  • Deployment processes and technologies.
  • Testing Practices and processes.
• Design, develop and maintain high performance, reusable and reliable code for REST-services and API’s.

• Security and Compliance:

• Designing for security. Including, Identity and Access Management (IAM), data security, separation of duties (SoD) and applicable security controls.

• Minimum NQF 7 – BSC/BCom/BTech in Information Technology, Information Systems Engineering or Computer Science or relevant equivalent
• 5+ years'' experience designing and building software applications 
• Proficiency with Java technologies and enterprise applications
• Experience working on complex software projects

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