Rakuten - Technical/Solution Architect (8-10 yrs)

Job Responsibilities :

- Collaborates with Product and Engineering stakeholders to design and build platform services that meet key product and infrastructure requirements

- Produces both detailed designs for platform-level services

- Must be able to evaluate software and products against business requirements and turn business requirements into robust technical solutions fitting into corporate standards and strategy.

- Designs and implements microservices with thoughtfully defined APIs

- Should be conversant with frameworks & Architectures - Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Batch, Messaging Frameworks (like Kafka), Micro service Architecture

- Work with other areas of technology team to realize end to end solution and estimation for delivery proposals.

- Sound understanding of Java concepts, understanding of the technologies in the various architecture tiers - presentation, middleware, data access and integration to propose solution using Java /open-source technologies

- Design modules that are scalable, reusable, modular, secure.

- Clearly communicates design decisions, roadblocks and timelines to key stakeholders

- Adheres to all industry best practices and standards for Agile/Scrum Frameworks adopted by the Organization including but not limited to daily stand-ups, grooming, planning, retrospectives, sprint reviews, demos, and analytics via systems (JIRA) administration to directly support initiatives set by Product Management and the Organization at large

- Actively participate in Production stabilization and lead system software improvements along with team members.

Technical Skills :

- Candidate Should have at least total 8 to 10 years of experience in IT software development/design architecture.

- 3+ experience as an Architect in building distributed, highly available and scalable, microservice-based Cloud Native architecture

- Experience in one or more open-source Java frameworks such as Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Quartz, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, BPM, etc.

- Experience in single page web application framework like Angular.

- Experience with at least one type messaging system (Apache Kafka (Required), RabbitMQ)

- Experience with at least one RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle)

- Experience with at least one document-oriented DB (MongoDB, Preferably Couchbase DB)

- Experience with NoSQL DB like Elasticsearch

- Proficient in creating design documents - LLD documents with UML

- Good Exposure on Design Patterns, Microservices Architecture Design patterns and 12 factor application

- Experience working with observability/monitoring framework (Prometheus/Grafana, ELK) along with any APM tool

- Ability to conceptualize end-to-end system components across a wide range of technologies and translate into architectural design patterns for implementation

- Knowledge of security systems like Oauth 2, Keyclaok and SAML

- Familiarity with source code version control systems like Git/SVN

- Experience using, designing, and building REST/GRPC/ GraphQL/Web Service APIs

- Production experience with container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/CI/CD) and maintaining production environments

- Good understanding of public clouds GCP, AWS Etc.

- Good Exposure on API Gateways, Config servers

- Familiar with OWASP

- Experience in Telecom BSS (Business Support System) for CRM components added advantage

Looking for immediate joiners/serving notice period/ 30 days