Technology Architect - Microsoft Azure

We have a job opportunity for a Technology Architect - Microsoft Azure. The role is full-time and located in Tukwila, WA. The client is willing to provide relocation assistance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Alternatively, three years of progressive experience in the specialty can be considered in lieu of every year of education.
• At least 7 years of experience in Information Technology.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Azure Architecture Direction & Strategy:
  Expected to work with lead architects, developers, and project managers to create and communicate Azure Platform-specific architectural direction, design, and plan a critical program to migrate to Azure platform.
• Release Planning/Definition for Azure Migration:
  Provide input for scope via user-stories/features needed to be worked by teams to enable the Azure Migration to be successful.
• Software Development Lifecycle:
  Generate/Approve Features documentation from an Azure architectural and system perspective, generate/approve architectural designs/decisions from an Azure architectural and system perspective, and address Azure-related issues from an architectural and system perspective.
• SAFe Responsibilities (System Architect):
  Participate in planning, definition, and high-level design of the product suite solution, explore solution alternatives in relation to Azure migration, and define subsystems and their interfaces.

Additional preferred qualifications include:

• At least 2 years of experience architecting Java/J2EE applications (Web/Mobile/Desktop application).
• Extensive Systems Architecture experience.
• Extensive Azure Application Migration experience with Java-based applications.
• Effective communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to transform complex business requirements into technical design specifications.
• Strong hands-on experience in developing J2EE Web applications supporting both traditional and mobile user interfaces.
• Experience with Spring MVC, Spring Batch, and OWASP web application security frameworks.
• Experience with application build using Microservices architecture and awareness of best practices regarding Microservices architecture.
• Experience in Azure-related tools/technologies, including Windows Azure, Azure SDK, RDS in Azure, Cloud Security, PaaS service in Azure, and Security Management.
• Proficiency in programming with different Java IDEs like Eclipse or Net Beans.
• Proficiency in following secondary skills is a plus:
  Hibernate, O/R mapping, Spring framework, JavaScript, Angular 2.0 (and above), Signal
  
  R, Node.js, SQL, PL/SQL, and Cloud Foundry.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.