Java Technical Architect

We currently have a career opportunity for an Technical Architect to join our team. This is a remote position, must live in the United States. 

Job Overview:

The Technical Architect provides technology direction, ensures project implementation compliance, and utilizes technology research to innovate, integrate, and manage technology solutions. As a Technology Architect, you will significantly contribute to identifying best-fit architectural solutions for one or more projects; you will collaborate with some of the best talent in the industry to create and implement innovative high quality solutions, participate in Sales and various pursuits focused on our clients' business needs. This role is considered part of the Business Unit Leadership team and may mentor Junior Architects and /or development team members.

Perficient is always looking for the best and brightest talent and we need you! We’re a quickly-growing, global digital consulting leader, and we’re transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands. You’ll work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, and become a part of our global community of talented, diverse, and knowledgeable colleagues.

• Architectural Design and Consulting: Collaborate with our clients to understand their business requirements, analyze their existing systems, and design innovative microservices architectures that align with their strategic objectives. Provide expert consulting services to guide them through the process of modernizing their software infrastructure.
• Requirements Analysis and Domain-Driven Design: Conduct thorough requirements analysis workshops, applying Domain-Driven Design principles to identify key business domains and design microservices that capture their essence. Help clients adopt a domain-centric approach, promoting clarity and alignment between business and technical teams.
• Clean Code Development and Best Practices: Lead our clients' development teams by advocating Clean Code practices, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, maintainable, and extensible codebases. Mentor and coach developers in applying industry best practices, coding standards, and design patterns to optimize software quality and team productivity.
• Technology Evaluation and Solution Selection: Conduct in-depth technology assessments and evaluations to identify the most suitable technologies, frameworks, and tools for our clients' microservices implementations. Guide clients in selecting the right technology stack that aligns with their requirements, scalability needs, and long-term goals.
• System Integration and Scalability: Design robust integration patterns and scalable architectures for microservices ecosystems, leveraging event-driven architectures, message brokers, and API gateways. Define strategies for horizontal scaling, fault tolerance, and performance optimization to ensure highly available and efficient systems.
• Collaboration and Leadership: Collaborate closely with our clients' teams, project managers, and stakeholders to provide technical leadership, resolve architectural challenges, and foster successful project delivery. Communicate complex technical concepts effectively and inspire teams through your expertise and thought leadership.
• Industry Trends and Innovation: Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and advancements in microservices, DDD, and Clean Code practices. Identify opportunities for innovation, process improvements, and propose novel solutions that drive tangible business value for our clients.

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience.
• Minimum 10 years of programming experience with Java/J2EE 
• Minimum 7 years of experience with Spring Boot Frameworks 
• Minimum 10 years of experience with API development 
• Experience working with AWS 
• Leadership and team management experience with ability to provide strategic planning and oversight.
• At least 5 project implementations that exploit the full capabilities (discover, design, implement and optimize) of the (Java, API Development, Microservices, Spring Framework, Modern JS frameworks/libraries) – is a MUST.
• At least 5 years of experience in a professional services company, consulting firm, or agency
• Experience in Microservice design for complex systems with strong knowledge of Micro service patterns
• Experience and expertise in design and implementation of event driven architecture (EDA) in conjunction with Micro-services
• Experience in API life cycle management
• Experience leading, managing, and mentoring global distributed development teams 
• Full life-cycle development experience – with Agile/Scrum project approach
• Client facing and/or consulting experience is a must
• Phenomenal communicators who can ex