Job Information
Raymond James Financial, Inc. Principal Architect, Solution Architecture in Clearwater, Florida
Description
This position will follow our hybrid work model, we expect the selected candidate to be in office 2-3 days a week at one of the following office locations: St. Petersburg, FL;
Job Summary
Hands-on, senior full-stack engineer who will lead the Solutions Architecture function for the enterprise. This involves both proactive definition of business-appropriate architecture patterns and assessing designs that application development teams produce for both on-prem as well as cloud ecosystems. You will be the go-to person in the enterprise when it comes to designing solutions whether they are in-house or vendor or hybrid.
You will also help development teams come up with cloud migration strategies in alignment with the overall strategy and priorities established by senior Architecture leadership. You will actively drive and evolve best practices and communicate them across the enterprise partnering with domain architects and lead engineers.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Design solutions that are fit for purpose, scalable and evolvable.
As needed work through all aspects of solutioning from requirements, design, and build through deployment and evolution.
Occasionally you may be asked to augment critical projects through direct involvement and hands-on contributions such as prototyping and developing critical modules.
Translates business requirements into working foundational components for platform thus ensuring functional and non-functional aspects are met.
Defines strategic direction and develops tactical plans. Works with application and infrastructure teams to provision platform components.
Effectively identifies opportunities for change, implements change and introduces new concepts, procedures, policies and tools while providing a clear explanation of benefits and purpose.
Involved in working with business stakeholders, cross functional teams and leading by example to other application development groups.
Documenting architectural standards, best practices and mentoring application teams on developing highly distributed, resilient and responsive applications.
Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Knowledge of
Expert knowledge/experience in the following strongly preferred:
Full-stack solution design and implementation
Designing and implementing high performance enterprise scale distributed systems.
Distributed Caching patterns and topologies
Loosely coupled, event-driven architectures
RDBMS Data modeling and optimization
Profiling and performance optimization - threading, memory management, JVM optimization etc.
Working in an Agile, Continuous Integration/Delivery environment
Experience building and implementing solutions for Containerized environments
Designing and building Low Latency applications
Microservices architecture including defining application boundaries
Java, Spring, Spring Boot, ORMs, APIs, Messaging
.NET experience (nice to have)
NoSQL models and when to use them
Modern DevOps practices
Test-driven development
Domain modelling and Design / Integration patterns
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Industry knowledge - Financial Industry (Capital Markets, Wealth Management) background preferred
Skill and Ability in
12 yr of overall experience
Java 10 yr
Full-stack systems design and development –10 yr
Microservices - 3 yr
Event-based systems – 3 yr
Hands-on Kafka experience
Expert in solutioning on-prem and knowledgeable in cloud-native solutions
Educational/Previous Experience Requirements
Education/Previous Experience
- Minimum of a B.S. in Computer Science, MIS or related degree and five (5) years of related experience or a combination of education, training and experience as approved by Human Resources.
Licenses/Certifications
- AWS Solutions Architect preferred.
Job: Technology
Primary Location: US-FL-St. Petersburg-Saint Petersburg
Other Locations: US-FL-Clearwater-Clearwater, US-FL-Tampa-Tampa, US-FL-St. Petersburg-Saint Petersburg
Organization Technology
Schedule Full-time
Job Shift Day Job
Travel No
Req ID: 2401513
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