Lead Application and Product Architect

Company: Wolters Kluwer N.V.
Location: Philadelphia
Posted on: March 19, 2023

Job Description:

Lead Application and Product Architect page is loaded Lead Application and Product Architect Apply locations USA - Philadelphia, PA time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago job requisition id R0033688 The Lead Application Architect is a multidisciplinary technical role that requires a combination of various architectural, design, engineering, and business skills. This person will provide analysis, engage in problem solving and lead development for our customer facing applications. The role requires both broad and deep technology knowledge and the ability to architect solutions by mapping common business problems to reusable end-to-end technology solutions. The position is a hands-on role that works on complex assignments. To be effective, the Lead Application Architect must have experience on multiple hardware and software environments and be comfortable with intricate heterogeneous systems. This position is r esponsible for developing, creating, modifying, and integrating applications, software, and services. The Lead Application Architect will be capable of assessing existing product architecture, identifying limitations and develop a targeted architecture with respect to the product roadmap. They will create transition plans to migrate products and services from legacy frameworks to a microservice architecture. The Lead Application Architect is also responsible for the governance and architecture compliance during the development cycle. When building the new products and services the Lead Application Architect works with business stakeholders, product managers, Enterprise Architects and Cloud Architects to build holistic and forward-thinking solutions. The Lead Application Architect needs to be an evangelist for the standards, best practices, and mentor development teams on a regular basis. The Application Architect should be able to proactively identify potential issues and design solutions. Essential Duties and responsibilities Job Qualifications Education: Bachelor's degree or higher in a technically oriented field preferably Computer Science. - Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: -

• Design and implement highly scalable, fault tolerant and highly available products and services.
• Architect AWS Cloud Native Solutions.
• Redesign / rearchitect products using modern design patterns.
• Provide architectural blueprints and technical leadership to our engineering team.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and processes to ensure the highest quality product platform.
• Develop proof of concepts and prototypes to analyze potential solutions.
• Collaborate with peer organizations, quality assurance, and end-users to produce cutting-edge software solutions.
• Ensure solutions are properly addressing scalability, security, privacy, high-availability, fault tolerance and maintainability requirements.
• Collaborates with Solutions Architects and various Technology teams to select appropriate design solutions and ensure the compatibility within the larger organization.
• Assist with detailed implementation planning, project planning and project coordination in conjunction with the project manager.
• Review business requirements and assist in translating into features/user stories.
• Learn new technologies and promote the adoption of frameworks that deliver business value.
• Minimum 7 years of software development experience with focus on web-based applications.
• Minimum 4 years application architectural design and development experience.
• Minimum 4 years experience working with disparate technical teams in an agile based software development environment - scrum preferred.
• Experience designing and supporting Cloud based (AWS) solutions.
• Experience maintaining and improving distributed systems.
• Experience in analyzing and re-architecting legacy and/or monolithic applications.
• Disparate technical experience in various software stacks such as:
  • LAMP stack with PHP or Python
  • Go Lang
  • Professional experience with AWS software services such as EC2, ALB, RDS, Route53, S3, Lambda with node.js and Kafka.
  • Hands on experience with Architectural design patterns like Event Driven Design, Message broker pattern, Event sourcing, Pub/sub model
  • Understands enterprise-level architecture principles.
  • Solid foundation in Programming practices like SOLID PRINCIPLES, TDD
  • Experience with LMS Integration via LTI 1.3 preferred.
  • Ability to evaluate and learn new and emerging technologies.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, -Docker and containers.
  • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins.
  • Professional understanding of UI frameworks such as JQuery, Angular JS, Bootstrap, ember js.
  • Expert understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and SOA architecture.
  • Experience with data model design with RDBMS & NOSQL databases, middleware caching.
  • Must possess very strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Good interpersonal and coaching skills.
  • Experience working with high traffic services/web sites. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by most people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities and requirements. About Us Wolters Kluwer (AEX: WKL) is a leading global provider of information, software, and services for professionals. We serve customers in more than 180 countries, operating through four divisions: Health; Tax & Accounting; Governance, Risk & Compliance; and Legal & Regulatory. The Company is committed to helping professionals improve the way they do business and solve complex problems with confidence in an ever-changing world. The Power of Purpose 0:00 -/ - 1:32 Wolters Kluwer reported 2021 annual revenues of ---4.8 billion, employs over 19,000 people worldwide and maintains operations in over 40 countries. The company is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands. Wolters Kluwer shares are listed on Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. - For more information about our solutions and organization, visit www.wolterskluwer.com , follow us on Twitter , Facebook , and LinkedIn . Equal Opportunity Employer Wolters Kluwer and all of its subsidiaries, divisions and customer/business units is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other protected status.GDPR Careers Privacy & Cookies Wolters Kluwer ("we" or "us") wants to inform you about the ways we process your personal information. In this Privacy & Cookie Notice we explain what personal information we collect, use and disclose. You'll find details related to GDPR and other data privacy policies on our Careers Privacy & Cookies page.

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