Principal Technical Architect

Company: Maximus
Location: Princeton
Posted on: August 6, 2022

Job Description:

Maximus continues to grow our Digital Solutions organization to better serve the needs of our organization and our customers in the government, health, and human services space. Digital Transformation is one of our primary strategic pillars and is a significant part of our long-term corporate strategy. We are a group of skilled practitioners who are laser-focused on continuing to introduce differentiated solution offerings aligned with the mission requirements of our customers to improve overall service delivery across our operations. We believe that great outcomes define our success. We use an approach grounded in design thinking, lean, and agile to help solve complicated problems and turn bold ideas into delightful solutions.
We are looking for a Principal Technical Architect with experience architecting, developing, and implementing enterprise applications. The Ideal candidate will have a wide range of experience architecting solutions on J2EE, web-based frontend frameworks, and a variety of open-source technology platforms across N-tier architectures. The individual will have experience to operate independently and demonstrate experience leading/guiding a team to architect, develop, and implement business applications.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: - Engage with internal teams to understand and architect technical solutions, facilitate solutions design and manage implementations. - Participate in the requirements gathering sessions to understand business needs and provide inputs to the technical requirements. - Review, guide and support RFIs, RFPs and RFQs, response development including writing of whitepapers and concept development. - Provide technical solution support during proposal process, to include technology stack, solution architecture, and implementation methodology. - Develop and provide presentations and demonstrations of technology solutions to both internal and external stakeholders as needed. - Design and develop specific solutions leveraging technologies and design practices that enable a scalable, extensible and flexible solution. - Contribute to the design and architecture of software and infrastructure to ensure projects meet goals and should be able to clearly articulate and present the implications of design/architectural decisions, issues and plans to leadership. - Review the solution, in the implementation and post deployment phases, to validate that the final solution matches the original approved design and architecture. - Work with engineering team to integrate approved solutions into the existing infrastructure and proactively identify associated potential risks and pitfalls involved, translate technical needs, and remove technical barriers. - Responsible for recommending and developing technical architectures, tools and processes that support the automation of environment management, build, testing, deployment and support processes. - Assist with builds and design of high-level architecture documentation. - Collaborate with other teams in the organization to define supporting infrastructure and software tools needed to enable DevOps practices in a large scale environment. - Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will enable team velocity. - Learn and analyze new technologies and industry best practices to identify suitability for adoption by the organization.

Minimum Requirements: - Bachelor's degree required in the field of computer science or equivalent. Master's degree a plus. - The candidate must have over 10 years of experience designing & implementing enterprise solutions with working knowledge across numerous technology platforms. - The candidate must have over 15 years of experience in J2EE, with a strong focus on the Spring Boot framework - The candidate must have over 10 years in open-source technology based development. - The candidate must have over 5 years in web frontend framework experience. - Experience across many of the following areas (listed in priority): N-Tier applications, Distributed Computing, Databases & Storage, Data Analytics, Digital Transformation & Application Modernization, Cloud Architecture, Application Containerization & Container Orchestrations, DevOps, Enterprise Architecture, Agile development, Robotic Process Animation (RPA), Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), BlockChain, Low Code Platforms - Strong working knowledge of Enterprise Software Design Patterns & Cloud Software Architecture - Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles. - Consistently works on complex assignments requiring independent action and a high degree of initiative to resolve issues. - Exercises independent judgement in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. - Demonstrated ability to build trusted advisor relationships with clients - Experience supporting sales, pre-sales and business development - Individual contributor who oversees large, technically complex projects. - Knowledgeable of emerging trends and may contribute to and influence best practices within discipline. - Great oral and written communications

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