Technical Architect

Company: Perficient
Location: Minneapolis
Posted on: April 10, 2021

Job Description:

Overview

At Perficient you'll deliver mission-critical technology and business solutions to Fortune 500 companies and some of the most recognized brands on the planet. And you'll do it with cutting-edge technologies, thanks to our close partnerships with the world's biggest vendors. Our network of offices across North America, as well as locations in India and China, will give you the opportunity to spread your wings, too.

We're proud to be publicly recognized as a "Top Workplace" year after year. This is due, in no small part, to our entrepreneurial attitude and collaborative spirit that sets us apart and keeps our colleagues impassioned, driven, and fulfi

Perficient currently has a career opportunity for a Technical Architect in our Minneapolis office located in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Job Overview

The Technical Architect provides technology direction, ensures project implementation compliance, and utilizes technology research to innovate, integrate, and manage technology solutions. As a Technology Architect, you will significantly contribute to identifying best-fit architectural solutions for one or more projects; you will collaborate with some of the best talent in the industry to create and implement innovative high quality solutions, participate in Sales and various pursuits focused on our clients' business needs. This role is considered part of the Business Unit Leadership team and may mentor Junior Architects and /or development team members.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural solutions/designs to project execution teams for implementation.
• Provide technology architectural assessments, strategies, and roadmaps for one or more technology domains.
• Work with application developers, users, operational leadership, and subject matter experts to understand current and future operational data analysis goals. Recommend modern technology stacks to meet those goals and help engineering teams migrate towards their use.
• Collaborate with the customer's operations and technology leadership on the future analytic goals of the organization, and design a technical architecture to meet those goals. Participate in configuring the architecture, and advise engineering teams on its efficient use.
• Lead a work stream or act as a team lead and manage non-complex components of the work plan/project.
• Utilize analytical, process, and/or technical skills to meet project objectives and deliverables that are self-directed and within project scope.
  
  Qualifications
  
  • Proven developer in the Java/OSS space with 10+ years of Java application development experience
  • Expert in technical leadership and providing architectural vision on full lifecycle solution development engagements for large-scale enterprise initiatives, including requirement analysis, design, development, test and support.
  • Ability to articulate complex technical issues and solution proposals to all levels of client leadership
  • Recognized as a subject matter expert for a given technology area
  • Strong consulting and communication skills
  • Proven management, leadership and mentoring skills
  • Ability to work effectively with various organizations in pursuit of technology solutions to business problems
  • Self-starter that can challenge the status quo and their team
  • Expert knowledge of application development technologies, including Java, SpringIO/Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate
  • Expert understanding of API, microservice, and integration concepts and technologies, such as REST, SOAP, JSON, XML, message queues, and integration patterns/frameworks
  • Experience building distributed / service oriented / microservice-style and cloud based architectures
  • Solid knowledge and experience with databases (relational and/or NoSQL).
  • Experience with operational concerns (NFRs, PaaS offerings) and logging/monitoring solutions
  • Strong triaging, debugging, problem solving and investigative skills
  • Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools (e.g. git/github, Jenkins, Gradle/Maven, Artifactory, containers/docker, Ansible)
  • Familiarity with UI technologies, such as HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, Angular/Material, Bootstrap, React
  • Familiarity with automated testing solutions
  • Knowledge and experience in developing software using Agile/Scrum methodology
  • Experience with Agile task management tools (e.g. JIRA, Rally, VersionOne)
  • Bachelor's Degree in MIS, Computer Science, Math, Engineering or comparable major
    
    Preferred Skills And Education
    
    • Experience working with a globally distributed team and managing off-shore teams.
    • Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
    • Experience with authoring, editing and presenting technical documents.
      Perficient full-time employees receive complete and competitive benefits. We offer a collaborative work environment, competitive compensation, generous work/life opportunities and an outstanding benefits package that includes paid time off plus holidays. In addition, all colleagues are eligible for a number of rewards and recognition programs including billable bonus opportunities. Encouraging a healthy work/life balance and providing our colleagues great benefits are just part of what makes Perficient a great place to work.
      
      More About Perficient
      
      Perficient is the leading digital transformation consulting firm serving Global 2000 and enterprise customers throughout North America. With unparalleled information technology, management consulting and creative capabilities, Perficient and its Perficient Digital agency deliver vision, execution and value with outstanding digital experience, business optimization and industry solutions.
      
      Our work enables clients to improve productivity and competitiveness; grow and strengthen relationships with customers, suppliers and partners; and reduce costs. Perficient's professionals serve clients from a network of offices across North America and offshore locations in India and China. Traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, Perficient is a member of the Russell 2000 index and the S&P SmallCap 600 index.
      
      Perficient is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national, origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
      
      Disclaimer: The above statements are not intended to be a complete statement of job content, rather to act as a guide to the essential functions performed by the employee assigned to this classification. Management retains the discretion to add or change the duties of the position at any time.
      
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    • Are you legally authorized to work in the United States?
    • Will you now, or in the future, require sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g. H-1B visa status)?
      
      

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