cs xxxxxx - dg rtd (aca l8-10) - informal

Lot 2 - Application Cloud Architect profile (ACA) - near site - level 8 to 10
Opportunity for a
senior architect with strong hands-on developer skills
.

Could be non-EU, and start must be this year.
Role
Level 8
Level 9
Level 10
Application/Cloud architect

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

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.

Client will seek to find the following in the profile and assess them carefully during the possible interview:

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.