Principal Solutions Architect - bpost

Responsibilities

The Solutions Architect primary focus is to ensure the technical integrity of bpost's Event Driven Architecture platform and to formulate the technical direction for bpost's strategic cloud investments. The Solution Architect drives the estimation, analysis, and design as well as supports implementation and operations of a slew of microservices owned by the team. The Solutions Architect will work closely with the senior tech and business leadership as well as engineering and ops teams driving the vision, and the technical strategic objectives throughout the SDLC. The Technical Architect remains current in all Parcel and Logistics related technologies in support of enterprise applications and infrastructure. Working as Solution Architect, your passion for technology and thirst for innovation will help shaping the future of our digital transformation now and for years to come.Responsibilities :

Analyze, design, and lead technical solutions fulfilling core business requirements in our migration journey from legacy messaging solution to Confluent Kafka in AWS platform. Keeping in mind solution scalability, availability, security, extensibility, and maintainability characteristics as well as risk assumptions, and cost consideration for solutions.

Actively participate in proof-of-concept implementation of new applications and services.

Research, evaluate and recommend third party software packages and services to enhance bpost digital transformation capabilities.

Promote technical vision and sound engineering principles among technology department staff members and across the global team.

Occasionally, assist in production escalations, systems operations, and problem resolutions.

Assist team members in adopting new Kafka solutions. And mentor the team to remain current with latest tech trends in the global marketplace.

Drive process, policy, and standard improvements related to the architecture, design, and development principles.

Assist business leadership in the prioritization of business capabilities and go-to-market decisions.

Collaborate with cross functional teams and business team as required to drive the strategy and initiatives forward

Leading architecture teams in digital capabilities and competency building mentoring junior team members

Qualifications

15+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years in hands-on architecture roles

Ability to define platform strategy, target state architecture, and implementation roadmaps for enterprise-scale applications to migrate to Kafka

Proven hands-on architecture and design experience in Microservice architecture and Domain Driven Design concepts and principles including 12-factor app and other enterprise design patterns.

Establish enterprise architectural blueprints and cloud deployment topologies

Highly experienced in designing high traffic services serving 1k+ transactions per second or similar high transaction volume distributed systems with resilient high-availability and fault-tolerance.

Experience in developing event-driven, message-driven asynch systems such as Kafka, Kinesis etc

Experience in AWS services such as Lambdas, ECS, EKS, EC2, S3 DynamoDB, RDS, VPCs, Route 53, ELB

Experience in Enterprise Java, Springboot eco-system

Experience with Oracle Databases, NoSQL DBs and distributed caching.

Extensive experience implementing system integrations utilizing API gateways, JSON, Avro and XML libraries.

Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and process facilitation skills

AWS architecture certification or equivalent working expertise with AWS platform.

B.S. or M.S. in computer science or a related technical area preferred

Financial, payment processing or e-commerce domains is a plus.

Travel

This position is based out of GDC in Chennai India, and occasional travel to Belgium might be required for business interactions and training.

Skills Required

Microservice Architecture, Springboot, enterprise design patterns , Json, domain driven design , Avro, distributed caching , Kinesis, Xml, Enterprise Java, Aws