Principal Applications Architect

About Us

Matson has been the leading ocean shipping and logistics provider throughout the Pacific since 1882. We are the supply chain lifeline for Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, and islands of the South Pacific. We also offer the top two ocean shipping services in the world’s largest trade lane - Asia to the U.S. West Coast. With our subsidiaries Matson Terminals and Matson Logistics, our business focus is exceeding customer expectations with quality, reliability, and integrity.

We strive to operate in an environmentally sustainable manner and promote land-based environmental programs in Hawaii, Guam, and Alaska. We help improve the communities in which we work and live through our community giving program that annually supports hundreds of local organizations. And we work to improve diversity, equity and inclusion in our company, communities and industry through an active social equity program.

Matson is a great place to work, and everyone who works with us becomes part of the Matson ohana or family. Join our team and help us move freight better than anyone.

Learn more at matson.com.

About the Role

The Principal Applications Architect will bring a balance of technology and business strategy focus to Matson.

What you’ll do:

• Specialize in one or more business verticals of Matson to provide domain specific solutions.
• Work with the project teams to recommend the architecture approach for applications and define in an increasing level of detail as the project progresses.
• Lead design review process and ensure recommendations made are understood by recipients and are monitored during the project life cycle.
• Research, analyze and recommend new technologies, frameworks, processes, and tools to further Matson’s technology architecture.
• Be able to explain and educate complex solutions and integrations in a clear and articulate manner, using illustrative techniques (e.g., UML diagrams) as necessary.
• Develop Proof of Concepts that may include, analysis of problem, finding an optimal solution, design, development, and documentation.
• Contribute to the troubleshooting of difficult application production issues including performance tuning, memory management, database or other environment and architecture related issues.
• Provide thought leadership by educating and sharing best practices, building deep relationships with organization leaders, conducting brown bag sessions, mentoring junior team members, and writing white papers.
• Collaborate with various Matson teams to define application standards, conventions, and best practices.
• Report and escalate to senior management as needed.
• Execute other job duties as assigned.

You have these skills:

• Critical thinking ability to analyze and solve complex problems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and can communicate effectively at all levels - with the team, peers and with senior management of the company.
• Comfortable in situations that are ambiguous and can juggle between multiple tasks and rapidly changing priorities.

And these qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in technology related field.
• Ten (10) years of experience in relevant software and IT related projects.
• Four (4) years of experience performing as a full-time architect.
• Possess a high degree of technical expertise with foundational architectural principles in building Java and cloud based distributed systems.
• Expertise in application development using the following technologies:
  • Java EE
  • Spring boot
  • Application servers (e.g. Tomcat, JBoss)
  • Messaging (e.g. Active MQ, JBoss messaging)
  • Database technologies (RDBMS and NoSQL DBs)
  • Linux/Unix
  • Cloud computing (AWS experience preferred)
• Excellent grasp of application security concerns and remediation techniques.
• Knowledge of networking, infrastructure, and storage components.
• Well-rounded technical background in current web and micro-service technologies.
• Experience working with business users in defining processes and translating those to available solutions.
• This is a hybrid position

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