Expert Software Architect

Expert Software Architect:

Makes high-level design choices and dictates technical standards, including software coding standards, tools, and platforms. Designs multi-leveled architecture or component interactions of a large-scale software system.

Expert Skill Level:84+ Months

Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams and/or has the extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field.

• 84 months experience designing and implementing highly available and scalable multitier applications using Object-Oriented or Service Oriented Architecture involving data structures, algorithms, software design, and JEE design patterns.
• 84 months experience in creating technical designs and deploying applications in IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1 or higher, WebSphere Application servers 6.0 or higher using JAVA Development Kit (JDK 1.5 or higher).
• 84 months experience planning, designing, implementing, and integrating systems related to criminal justice processing (including but not limited to: disposition processing, fingerprint identification processing, criminal history updating, Sex Offender management, tracking of Wanted/Missing persons, or initiatives related to Offender Supervision).
• 48 months experience in architecting, designing, and developing solutions using Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana.
• 60 months experience in developing applications using JBOSS Drools Rule framework.
• 48 months experience in identifying and resolving application performance issues.

Provide technical oversight to application development teams working in multiple projects, which may include but are not limited to disposition processing, fingerprint identification processing, criminal history updating, content management, tracking of Wanted/Missing persons, or initiatives related to Offender Supervision. Guide development teams working in highly available and scalable multitier applications using Object-Oriented or Service Oriented Architecture. Plan project resourcing and interact with executive management for planning and status reporting purposes.

This individual will be expected to provide expertise and participate in the following activities:

• Implement Integrated Justice Portal standards related to application technologies, including UI standards, development methodology, and coding and style guides.

• Act as the primary technical liaison with technical infrastructure teams to resolve problems and implement solutions to technical issues impacting application performance.

• Work with the Infrastructure team to execute activities such as performance test planning and execution failure failover planning and execution, endurance testing, and deployment planning and testing.

• Provide the analysis, design, and code review enterprise applications using JAVA/JEE, JSF, XML, XSLT and the IBM Portal/WebSphere Application development software.

• Perform oversight of development activities which may include data analysis, data access, data structures, data manipulation, preparing logical database models, testing, and implementation.

• Prepare, and/or review technical documentation such as designs, schemas, etc, as appropriate.

• Provide technical guidance to a team of developers.