Technical Lead

Houston, Texas

Overview:

Our Fortune 200 company located in Downtown Houston is looking for a Technical Lead/Chief Architect to join the Digital Collection Operations team. This person would assist and contribute to combining technical expertise with best practices, and standard solutions in an effort to align and implement digital solutions with business strategy. You would have the opportunity to present and communicate to all levels of the organization (technical and non-technical) and oversees development from a technical perspective.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Interacts with product owners, product managers, and developers to envision, model and design technology solutions to solve business problems.
• Designs and builds high availability, scalable, secure, and cost optimized architecture
• Recommends the techniques/technologies that should be applied at the lowest application level. Performs fit analysis for matching the right tool and pattern to the purpose.
• Helps identify and design reusable approaches to apply across the enterprise and business partner relationships.
• Assists the team with the presentation of technical processes to all levels
• Reviews the code to ensure the quality of the design by avoiding complexity, advocating clarity and does hands-on work in terms of developing prototypes, contributing code or evaluating technologies.
• Ensures that the solution design complies with the enterprise’s architecture standards for technical, information and application architecture.

Skills Other Requirements

• Strong experience with AWS and Python is required
• In-depth knowledge of Software Design and Architecture Patterns
• Experience working on complex cloud-based software projects, web application development, security and open source technologies
• Cloud Technologies: Microservices, AWS, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, AWS APIs, AWS CLI, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Kafka
• Big Data Technologies like Python, Scala, Cassandra, Hadoop, Spark, Solr
• Proficiency in technologies like Java, J2EE(JSP/Servlet/JDBC/JMS), Web Services, SOAP, REST, SQL, PL/SQL, JSON, XML, Maven, Ant
• Knowledge of Frameworks like Spring, Struts, Hibernate, iBatis Experience working with Databases like Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 Web/Application Servers: Apache Tomcat, WebSphere, JBoss
• RDBMS experience

One or more of the following

• Knowledge of enterprise coding standards and creating unified development standards in the company.
• Define a solution using architectural design principles based on customer requirements.
• Requirement analysis, management and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Identifying business requirements and requirements of the stakeholders on the project.
• Architectural review and Code review for the project.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal).
• Ability to multitask, meet deadlines, and work in a fast-paced environment.

Eight Eleven Group provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, citizenship, disability, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.