NTT DATA Services strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.
We are currently seeking a Senior Application Technical Architect to join our team in Victoria or Vancouver, BC , Canada, or REMOTE.
Job Responsibilities Include:
- Partners with and becomes a knowledge expert across the organization to solve complex business problems, and form and test hypotheses using a wide array of skills
- Provides a consultative approach with business users, asking questions to understand the business need and determining the platform and products underpinning technology components based on those needs
- Architect platform and product solutions that align with NTT DATA and our Clients’ engineering or delivery capabilities, which include but are not limited to: DevOps, Full Stack (.NET or Java), Front-End Frameworks (React, Vue, React-Native, Angular, etc.), AI and Data Analytics, Security, Red Hat OpenShift
- Quality Engineering
- Assessing and recommending cloud provider services (AWS, Google, Microsoft, etc.)
- Clear understanding and communication of modern architecture (i.e. microservices, api, cloud-native, and headless (micro front-ends)
- Gathering, reviewing of business (use case / user experience) objectives and interpretation into technical requirements
- Responsible for evaluating and recommending technical products (SaaS Solutions, Cloud Provider Services) and communication of best practices for those tools and activities to improve effectiveness and quality
- Identify delivery risk due to integration and definition of technical architecture or spikes, backlog to mitigate such risks
- Definition and prioritization of product non-functional requirements
- Capture and communication of investment costs (one-time, ongoing) for technology products and services
- Organizes tasks and resources to complete work and meet deadlines according to established departmental procedures
- Collaborate closely with NTT DATA practice area leadership during strategy and consulting engagements
- Assist developers in application architecture and resolving technical issues with integration architecture or operations architecture
- Align with team DevOps leadership on technology and tools for delivery
- Provides delivery support in the design, deployment of the product/solution architecture
- Engage and collaborate with client Enterprise Architecture, Architecture Review Boards and Delivery Organizations to align technology recommendations to enterprise standards
Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum of 10 years of experience designing large scale platforms and products that contain a variety of technology products in integration architecture, development architecture, execution architecture (infrastructure, application, data) and operations architecture
- Minimum of 5 years experience in the last 7 years with modern programming languages like Java, Python, Ruby, React, Angular and more, as well as scripting and configuration management; Ability to apply application architecture patterns (e.g. Strangler)
- Minimum of 10 years experience in database technologies and information/data architecture
- Minimum of 5 years experience in the last 7 years in DevOps, using continuous integration and continuous development (we use Jenkins, Nexus, Git), automation of testing data and transformations, and cloud-native designs and tools, e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
- BS or MS degree in a quantitative field such as computer science, physics, math, engineering, or economics. Equivalent education and/or experience may be substituted for the minimum education requirement
Preferred Skills:
- Deep understanding in Front-End Design, DevOps (DevSecOps), Security, Operations and Cloud Services
- Experience designing, developing and deploying applications on the RedHat OpenShift Platform
- Experience with decoupled architectures, real-time or near-real-time event/data streaming, enterprise integration and common messaging patterns, as well as workflow management technologies
- Experience working in public cloud environments and understanding tools/techniques for data ingestion and analytics
- Experience implementing monitoring, quality assurance, data validation processes in a relational and big data environment (metrics-driven reliability and performance)
- Ability to constructively resolve conflict, manage expectations for competing priorities, and drive towards business goals; providing leadership in product delivery teams
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and experience in collaborative environments
- Ability to interpret business requirements to formulate technical solutions and to decide among competing technical solutions
- Broad experience in executing technology recommendations across the landscape of platform and services (infrastructure, development and test, application, data, security, operations)
- Expertise in security best practices, especially in a cloud or hybrid setting, including data access controls and tools, auditing, encryption/securing data at rest and in transit, privacy/anonymization constraints, etc.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies
