Solution Architect

DESCRIPTION

We're looking for a Solution Architect who will have a pivotal role to play in the technology team. We seek a talented and motivated individual who has an appetite for defining technical direction and strategy in their area of specialty and will guide our engineering teams to build innovative, all-encompassing solutions on our range of customer-facing platforms.
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What You'll Do

• Lead and deliver on the overall coding, technical direction, and strategy of the area
• Gain a deep technical understanding of the existing technical stack, principles, policies, and standards
• Evangelize future direction, technology choices, modernize frameworks, project deliverables, and practices/policies for continuous improvement
• Take ownership of your respective area of the ecosystem and the direction of this product/domain
• Lead technical teams through multi-phased delivery projects and provide hands-on guidance to influence standards for development, governance, and operational life cycle
• Collaborate with technical teams to instill CI & Development best practices
• Promote continuous learning
• Develop POCs and perform code reviews with a focus on design principles, simple testable code, and quality at the fore
• Work closely with product teams to ensure delivery of these solutions to enhance our business capabilities
• Support and mentor technical teams to encourage growth & foster an innovative and inquisitive development culture
• Contribute to IT strategy, API governance, standards, and technical evaluations to drive our strategic goals

• Extensive background in Java technologies, Spring Framework, and REST services
• Demonstrable design knowledge, including API design principles, SOA, event-driven systems, and similar design patterns and techniques
• Showcase of web-based systems, service-based, and enterprise application architecture
• Expertise in applying architecture & working in an agile environment
• Highly analytical mindset, with an ability to see both the big picture and the details
• Efficient communication skills, ability to present technical information to a non-technical audience
• Cloud AWS

• Knowledge of high-volume e-Commerce/retail and Services architectures
• Competency in breaking monolith applications into microservices during the migration into Cloud (AWS is preferable)
• Background in building and migrating applications, software, and services into Cloud (AWS is preferable)
• Strong organizational and leadership skills
• Ability to lead, mentor & motivate developers to ensure high-quality code deliverables & practices

• Java, Spring, REST, API, SOA, AWS (preferable)

• Outstanding career development opportunities with a transparent roadmap to accelerate your journey
• Knowledge sharing within the community of 60,000+ industry's top professionals worldwide
• Various opportunities for self-development: hard & soft skills internal training courses, mentoring programs, and unlimited access to 8,000+ LinkedIn Learning courses
• Free English classes with certified teachers
• Competitive compensation, regular assessments, and salary reviews
• Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Flexible working schedule
• Friendly team, and enjoyable working environment
• Relocation opportunities within our offices in 50+ countries
• Bonuses for participating in the referral program
• Medical & family care programs, corporate and social events

• EPAM Armenia is a team of 900+ talented innovators united by a passion for technology. In 2014, we opened our first office in Yerevan, and now we have a second engineering hub in Gyumri. We've built a continuously learning organization that helps its employees rapidly advance their careers. Here you will work with the world's industry leaders, support impactful projects using the latest technologies, collaborate with multi-national teams, and have access to a wide variety of development opportunities