Architect V-FD

SyApps is a Technology and Management Consulting Services firm based in Greater Washington area, with focus on solutions in the area of Strategy, Process, Technology and Management support. As a diverse end-to end IT and Management solution Provider, SyApps offers a range of expertise aimed at helping customers re-engineer and re-invent their business to compete successfully in an ever-changing marketplace. 

 Please visit us at www.syapps.com. 

Description:

Job Description:

We need AWS application architecture experience. 

The Solution Architect role applies vast experience of system architectures, application technologies, data architectures, and infrastructures to support key IT initiatives. The candidate must apply their knowledge of IT best practices appropriately to define IT solutions. The individual must possess the ability to analyze solutions and technologies and provide solution architecture based on knowledge of the organization's current and future needs.

The candidate will be responsible for, but not limited to: reviewing business and technical requirements, focusing on solution development throughout the project lifecycle, supporting development, evangelizing best practices and proven patterns, and escalating architecture issues and concerns. The candidate will promote the use of Corporate IT standards, and will create architectures and designs, and will develop target state architectures.

Required Qualifications:
• Bachelors or advanced degree in Computer Science, Math, or other engineering discipline
• 5+ years as an architect, responsible for making key decisions on software architecture.
• 10+ years of hands-on Java or Python design and development
• 5+ years providing solutions based on Enterprise Integration patterns, Event Driven Architecture, web services, SOA and Micro Services 

• • 2+ years Data Analytics solutioning experience in AWS cloud using AWS native services (EMR, Redshift, Athena etc.), Apache Spark framework and using Python, or R.
  • 2+ years hands on solutioning in public cloud/private cloud/PaaS experience
  • AWS Solution Architect Associate or Professional certification and with hands on experience 
• • Good understanding of Enterprise data containers including TDS, ODS, Data warehouse, DataMart and Enterprise Data Lake 
• • 10+ years’ experience with relational databases such as Oracle, SQL Server or Netezza
  • 5+ experience with application servers and containers such as JBoss, Tomcat, WebLogic
  • 5+ years’ experience with performance optimizations such as improving scalability, availability, demand, continuity, etc.
  • 5+ years’ experience in selecting and integrating COTS solutions
  • 2+ years’ experience in architecting application resiliency at component level and for Disaster recovery
  • 5+ years of documented architecture experience, preferably using Mega/Hopex suite 
• • Excellent communication, presentation, and documentation skills
  • Professional demeanor
  
  Preferred Qualifications:
  • Mortgage Industry knowledge experience
  • Good understanding of Advanced Analytics concepts/ Data Science – exposure to applying statistical models on large/enterprise-grade data 

• TOGAF Certification or a good understanding of TOGAF or other Enterprise Architecture frameworks 

Travel: No

Location: Herndon, VA

Tax Term: Contract to hire

SyApps LLC is a Winner of the SmartCEO/Grant Thornton Future 50 Award for being recognized as one of 50 fastest growing companies in the Greater Washington Area.