Sr. Architect- (hybrid)

Position will be Hybrid
This is a Senior Architect position at a VP/Director level.
Contract to hire role after 6 months depending on performance.
Location: This role is Hybrid and requires the candidate to be within an approx. 50-mile radius of any of the following corporate locations: Wilmington, DE; Baltimore, MD; Charlotte, NC; Dallas, TX; or Evansville, IN.

Principal Engineer/Architect for Application Development to lead an ongoing technology transformation. The Architect will lead the development of technology solutions for Servicing (logged in) experience, ensuring alignment with business strategies. This role will drive solution approaches which support product teams across the organization. The Architect is a hands-on individual contributor, working directly with our leadership and development teams to coordinate, plan, develop and implement consistent and repeatable product solutions. This role should be comfortable around senior leadership to pitch the solutions and defend.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide enterprise and application architecture direction and guidance to technology and business partners that starts and ends with a focus on delivering actionable recommendations to peers and leadership, so they can adjust policies, products, projects, and solutions to achieve targeted business outcomes.
• Work with a variety of technologies to design and implement application solutions on Distributed/Legacy Systems, and various on-premises & cloud-native applications with clear concept of 12-factor app, Agile, BDD, Stateless design, APIs, Microservices, IBM zSeries/iSeries, Containerization etc.
• Provide technical knowledge and experience during the planning, execution, and management of our custom Core application solutions.
• Work with various teams on developing application development and architecture strategy, best practices & patterns, proof of concepts, as well as identifying opportunities to increase efficiency and resiliency throughout the organization.
• Prepare documentation and messaging necessary for technology to communicate strategies and plans to executive management.
• Participate in the development efforts around DevOps, Monitoring, Alerting, KPIs, and Testing as it relates to applications.
• Develop architectural prototypes to reduce risk from new solutions.
• Provide proper guidance to ensure applications are designed, tested, documented, implemented, enhanced, and maintained according to the enterprise standards and expected service quality.

Skill/Experience/Education:

• Experience in software product, enterprise and mixed technology environment comprised of large scale, highly integrated systems.
• 10+ years of full stack and/or middleware software development. Experience with CI/CD, distributed application architecture, architecture trade-off analysis (ATAM), test strategies, technology optimization, and strategic planning.
• 8+ years working with SCRUM/Agile/iterative methods.
• 7+ years of performing solution and enterprise design with a focus on full stack application development in both a cloud native and on-prem environment.
• 5+ years hands-on cloud, AWS preferred 5+ years architecting high impact, reliable, applications in a responsive design.
• Direct, hands-on experience in these technologies; Java, Angular, Node JS, JavaScript, SQL, NoSQL, Restful API, GraphQL, message queues
• Bachelor's Degree computer science, hard sciences, or engineering is preferred, master s degree is desirable or equivalent professional experience for either degree.
• Direct, hands-on experience deploying and scaling applications in a containerized platform such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
• Experience with ELK stack and CI/CD pipeline running on GitLab, Urban Code Deploy is highly desired.
• Experience with IBM legacy systems (zSeries/iSeries)

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability. EEO IS THE LAW CC Pace invites any applicant and/or employee to review the Company s written Affirmative Action Plan. This plan is available for inspection upon request. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact us.