Senior Applications Architect (Onsite)

DPP is seeking a Senior Applications Architectfor an opportunity in Des Moines, Iowa.
Work arrangement:

• Onsite
• W2 position; 12 months

Position description:

• The Senior Applications Architect will be part of a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications using Agile methodologies.
• The project aims to modernize the client’s Tax system by re-architecting its components to industry leading architecture and frameworks, with the goal of providing better service to both the agency staff and the end-users while positioning the agency for future technological improvements.
• The Senior Applications Architect will provide technical leadership in architecting, implementing, and operationalizing AWS cloud hosting zones.
• The focus will be on security, full-stack automation, monitoring, and developer experience. You will be developer advocate for Cloud capabilities to influence and work across diverse teams to design and implement easy to use hybrid cloud environments.
• The Senior Applications Architect will partner with Development, and Infrastructure teams with the goal of architecting the applications and how they leverage infrastructure services in cloud environments.

Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience in cloud architecture planning, estimating, application migration and cloud governance
• Proven skills in cloud-native development
• Use configuration management and tooling to ensure cloud environments meet operational and security standards
• Containerize and orchestrate container images effectively to meet performance requirements
• Experience in Java, Spring frameworks, SQL, Oracle, SOAP and REST web services
• Experience in microservices and SOA development
• Experience in establishing coding practices, code review standards and security protocols
• Experience in Okta integration through SAML and/or JWT
• Strong understanding of AWS well architected frameworks in cloud production environments and apply those principles while designing a solution.
• Good understanding of AWS network and security engineering principles
• Great communication skills and the ability to lead and work collaboratively in a team environment
• Knowledge and experience of Agile practices
• AWS Professional Solutions Architect certification is a plus

Required knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Extensive experience is architecting web application, event driven systems and microservices; 8 years
• Design, estimate, implementation and governance of AWS Cloud architecture; 8 years
• Strong experience in AWS services like AWS EC2, ALB, RDS, AWS Lambda, AWS S3, Api Gateway, AWS IAM etc.; 8 years
• Cloud-native development and Serverless technologies; 8 years
• Application migration to AWS; 5 years
• Docker and Container orchestration technologies; 8 years
• SOA and Microservices development; 15 years
• Java, Jakarta EE, JSON, XML, Hibernate/OpenJPA, SOAP and REST web services; 15 years
• Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Cloud, Spring Batch; 15 years
• SQL, PL/SQL; 15 years
• Okta, SAML, JWT; 5 years
• CI/CD pipeline and tools; 5 years
• Establish coding practices, code review standards and security protocols; 15 years

Interested? Learn more:
Click the apply button or contact our recruiter Lori at Lori.Rutledge@dppit.com to learn more about this position (#24-00089).
DPP offers a range of compensation and benefits packages to our employees and their eligible dependents. Call today to learn more about working with DPP.
Authorized US Worker - US Citizens and those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time. EOE/AA/V/D