Solution Architect

Job Description:

Description of the job

A vacancy for an Architect in Airina has arisen within Airbus India in Bangalore.

You will be joining “Digital Archiving” and helping us with modernizing our Long Term Archiving (LTA) solution landscape. The “Digital Archiving” is building, maintaining and operating the central archiving solution for Airbus Commercial. We are running the AIRINA project in SAFe mode and following DevSecOps principals.

Tasks & accountabilities

Your main tasks and responsibilities will include:

The work itself

• Involvement in the full delivery lifecycle – responsible for designing, implementing, testing, documenting, supporting and operating libraries & frameworks.

• Designing solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements at scale for business needs

• Develops design specifications and parameters that are in compliance with products’ architectural blueprints.

• Reviewing application requirements and interface designs.

• Coordinates the functional and technical integration

• Lead the design, development and testing of  applications and Collaborates with other developers and provides significant contributions to develop specifications, to resolve business client questions, problems solving, bug fixing, testing, and investigating platform issues.

• Analyze the technology environment, conduct an architectural system evaluation (including security risks) and take part in the technology selection process

• Uses technical knowledge, creativity and company practices and priorities to obtain solutions to complex problems that are undefined and Unknown

• Work with stakeholders to manage Technical debt

• Creating development documentation and keeping documentation up to date

• Meeting with the development team to discuss user interface ideas and applications.

• Reviewing application requirements and interface designs.

• Mentor and coach junior developers, provide guidance on best practices and coding standards.

• Setup best practices for conduct code reviews, identify areas for product improvement

• Work cohesively with Product manager to drive Technical refinement and backlog grooming

• Work on Technical roadmapping with Architects

• Identify the need and drive technical workshops and share knowledge with the teams and contribute in creating best practices.

This role will involve some travel for business in Europe and as such you must be able to travel accordingly.

Required skills

We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:

The skills you bring

• Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or other related discipline preferred

• Must have for Java Backend Development

  • 10+ years of experience in Software development (Java development needed including experience with JDK 8+ preferred) and a strong experience using Spring Framework

  • Strong understanding of Java programming language and its ecosystem, including Springboot, Hibernate, Maven etc.,

  • Understanding of Dev Sec Ops pipeline and routines

  • Proficiency in front-end development using React framework, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3 and Java Script

  • Experience with RESTFul APIs, SOAP based services, microservices architecture and Cloud platforms(preferably AWS).

  • Good understanding of design patterns, system design, scalability and performance, security design, integration design, data structures and algorithms.

  • Solid experience with quality processes and Java/Spring test technologies and automation (Junit, TestNG, Postman, Selenium)

  • Solid understanding of database technologies.

  • Experience with version control systems and CI/CD pipelines.

  • Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, ability to work in a collaborative team environment.

  • Agile solutions management suite like Confluence, VersionOne

  • Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team and lead technical discussions.

  • Strong understanding of software development and design concepts and principles

  • Experience developing multithreaded and scalable applications and microservice services in Java / Spring Framework

• Good to have is experience with following products 

  • MarkLogic NOSQL Database

  • Camunda (BPMN Process Engine / orchestrator)

  • RedHat Openshift

  • RDBMS: MS-SQL, PostgreSQL

  • JavaScript and related frameworks and libraries

• Knowledge on some of the following software development products and tools: 

  • Monitoring: Splunk, Grafana / Prometheus

  • Versioning: GitHub

  • Build & Package: Maven, Gradle, Artifactory

  • CI/CD: Jenkins, Ansible

  • Agile Project Management: VersionOne, Confluence

• Nice-to-have for the future

  • Experience with Cloud environments like Amazon Web Services, Azure or Google Cloud

  • Experience with container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Mesosphere

• Technical Leadership skills

  • Experience in technically leading a team of 8 to 10 developers

  • Ability to take technical ownership and work with team members

  • Ability to be a Technical SPOC with various global stakeholders

  • Ability to lead changes or new ideas, way of working and align team members for the common vision

• English: advanced level both verbal and written

Success Metrics:

Success will be measured in a variety of areas, including but not limited to

• Deliver business value as defined by product owner and accountable for team’s delivery value as well

• Give a transparent information during the AGILE rituals (Remaining to do and issues encountered) and request help for support

• Consistently ensure the on-time delivery and quality (first-time-right) of the sprints

• Bring innovative cost effective solutions

• Achieve customer satisfaction

• Ability to handle a subject from demand management, to development and support

• Ability to challenge the needs of the clients and provide appropriate solutions

The role will have the following key outputs:

• Strong link with the Airbus Information Management organization

• Good quality code and participation in improvement of existing code

• Proactive in providing guidance & inputs for the product’s roadmap

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:

Airbus India Private Limited

Employment Type:

Permanent

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Experience Level:

Professional

Job Family:

Digital <JF-IM-DI>

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