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Stratagen · 3 months ago

Cloud Software Architect

Houston, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Stratagen, Inc. is an industry-leading provider of end-to-end digital solutions and analytics for the oil and gas sector. The Cloud Software Architect will be responsible for developing innovative approaches for next-generation solutions, collaborating with the development team, and ensuring high-quality, scalable solutions throughout the product life cycle.

Information TechnologyIT InfrastructureIT Management

Responsibilities

Ensure delivered solutions are realized in time frame committed; work in conjunction with project sponsors to size and manage scope and risk

Act as the coach and mentor to team members and technical staff on their assigned project tasks

Develop a cohesive team and ensure their continued success

Conduct product work reviews with team members

Advocate and define cloud architecture vision from a strategic perspective, including internal and external platforms, tools, and systems

Analyze the design, implementation and testing of cloud based and on-prem software solutions

Select the right technology and architecture for scalable, high availability, and reliable platform development

Provide architectural and technical guidance to a distributed development team, i.e., in-house and third-party

Work closely with the executive team to define product direction and design

Optimize infrastructure for cost and efficiency

Lead the design, development, integration, and debugging of systems and applications

Perform requirements analysis, system/software design and analysis, development/software metric creation and analysis, system risk analysis, integration, and test metrics

Translate product requirements into engineering specifications

Provide support and technical governance, expertise related to cloud architectures, deployment, and operations

Anticipate future system needs and be proactive in identifying solutions

Evaluate and identify new technologies for implementation

Maintain overall industry knowledge and latest trends, technologies, etc

Qualification

Cloud architectureSoftware architecture designMicroservice architecturesSQLNoSQL databasesAgile / DevOps processesREST APIsEdgeIoT solutionsCloud storageTeam leadershipProblem-solvingCommunication skillsMentoring

Required

Bachelor's degree in computer science or closely related field; Advanced degree is preferred

Ten (10) years of experience in hands-on development, application design in the delivery of software products

Minimum 3 years in an architect role in previous large-scale software development projects, preferably SaaS delivery model

Extensive experience with developing and delivering commercial enterprise software

Minimum three (3) years' experience in architecting and designing container frameworks used to run microservices or data processing workloads

Experience with front end technologies, such as Angular and React in a development environment

Firsthand development experience of Java stack, Knowledge of Spring

Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments

Experience in developing software systems, which employ data mining, machine learning, or statistical techniques, methods, and algorithms

Experience with Progressive Web Applications

Experience deploying cloud solutions into hybrid environments, including architecting services for simultaneous cloud and on-prem deployment

Coordination of geographically distributed teams

Strong understanding of SOA, object-oriented analysis and design, and/or client/server systems

Sound understanding and firsthand experience architecting edge and IoT solutions

Expertise in software architecture design, distributed systems, microservice architectures, and data distribution strategies

Knowledge of data stores and both SQL and NOSQL databases (including performance tuning), such as SQL Server, Azure Cosmos, MySQL, Hadoop, DynamoDB, Redis, MongoDB, or Cassandra

Demonstrated knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability)

Knowledge of modern Agile / DevOps tool chains and processes, including CI/CD, tracking of project metrics, unifying development and operations, etc

Understanding of client / server and distributed system / cloud architecture patterns

Have experience with REST API(s)

Familiarity with cloud storage, such as Azure Storage or equivalent

Deep understanding in the areas of Applications and Infrastructure in Cloud Compute workloads in Azure