Citco is looking to improve its global applications and technologies by leading design improvements, creating and promoting application architecture best practices, and driving improvements to Citco's software ecosystem. The goal is to enhance the quality, reusability, and time to market of applications while adhering to industry best practices.
Requirements
- advanced level of experience with application design, including but not limited to large scale, highly available, highly scalable systems.
- understand cybersecurity principles and some experience with cybersecurity solutions as it related to application design.
- at least 8 years of experience in application architecture/design/development, with a strong background in collaborating with development and infrastructure teams.
- Extensive experience with cloud hosted application development.
- Knowledgeable in event streaming platforms (Kafka/Pulsar/etc), pub-sub middleware, API gateways, OpenAPI/AsyncAPI, and domain modeling.
- Experience designing cloud native applications (containers, serverless, IaC basics).
- Comprehensive experience working in different kinds of languages (Python, Node.js, Java, C, etc) and technologies.
Responsibilities
- Lead/facilitate the development of the application architecture initiative including, but not limited to design and integration patterns, messaging, data driven design, event streaming, micro-services, SDLC practices, application design, system decomposition, database design.
- Document and maintain the Citco Application Architecture guidelines, best practices and application design patterns for the on-premises and cloud-based applications.
- Publish reference implementations (e.g. Saga, CQRS, etc)
- Participate in the review and provide assessments of applications.
- Perform Proof of Concept for new patterns and technologies.
- Hands on development of application patterns/designs to streamline and accelerate development teams use and adaptation of patterns
- Provide guidance and recommendations on new design patterns, emerging best practices and technologies.
Other
- Ability to facilitate domain-model workshops.
- Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills.
- The AA should possess strong communication skills, both written and spoken, as well as strong collaboration and teamwork skills.
- The AA will be expected to be an integral part of CITCO application improvement efforts as well as collaborate and provide guidance to the development teams.
- The position is expected to train/mentor fellow architect and developers.
