Technical Architect | Auburn Hills, MI | 6+ Months

Are you a passionate IT trailblazer – a growth-focused, problem-solver who takes full ownership of your work, wants to collaborate & co-create with fellow IT experts, innovate, learn new skills, create new solutions & drive your career to the pinnacle of your potential? If so, you will love working with our Sales Team – we are constantly innovating to create breakthrough solutions for our client’s growth through a vibrant, fun team culture. Featured in CNBC, Digital Journal, Fox News & CIO Review, GBSI has been successfully serving the world’s top Fortune 500 organizations for the last 20+ years. GBSI IT teams and consultants have delivered more than 568 projects successfully within the automotive, manufacturing, retail & pharmaceutical domains across the world. Headquartered in Moline, IL, GBSI’s clients and consultants are spread across the US, Canada, Europe & India. Join us to be a part of an ever-growing, elite IT team & start building your dream career today! To be a successful Technical Architect you will embody GBSI's core employee characteristics of being passionate about IT, taking full ownership of your work & having a growth mindset. Additionally, you will exhibit strategic vision, thoughtful engagement, strong analytical/process skills, a bias for action, and the ability to partner with senior operational leaders.

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in advanced technologies including a minimum of 5+ years as a technical architect
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in development including a minimum of 3+ years leading development resources
• Solid experience architecting and design business solutions with enterprise scale technologies (Web Application, Database, Container Computing Platform, Identity and Access Management, API Management, Infrastructure, Networks, Web & Integration software)
• Solid experience of software development life cycle process and methodologies
• Strong problem solving and negotiation abilities
• Ability to inform, educate and influence managers and employees to support goals and initiatives
• Good written, verbal and presentation skills are necessary to effectively convey goals and initiatives to team and management
• Strong Automotive OEM experience preferred

Primary responsibilities:

• Work with the project delivery lead and quality assurance lead, provide technical leadership to ensure projects can be delivered timely, on budget and meet business & system requirements.
• Analyze business requirements, conduct alternative analysis as needed, define and model solution architecture, estimate the recommended solution and represent it to the Architecture Review Board (e.g. logical & physical architectures, data classifications/protections, Integrate comprehensive security principles into all phases of design and architecture, solution cost estimation and alternative justification etc.) for review and approval.
• Lead detailed design, solution development and deployment (apply proper architecture and design patterns adhere to VWGoA architecture and design principles, document technical design, code review for quality and security, coach and mentor technical teams, bug fix remediation and performance tuning)
• Able to work on multiple projects concurrently.
• Solid experience in working with business/product team to discuss, analyze, understand and negotiate business requirements, being able to explain to business about the technical considerations and associated implications on the user journey/experience/requirements
• Solid experience in Spring boot, Spring framework, J2EE technologies, event driven architecture, microservices, distributed architecture and design patterns.
• Solid experience in modelling architecture and design with expertise of at least one of the frameworks (C4 model, UML, ArchiMate and Arc42 etc.)
• Strong experience in designing and implementing Restful APIs using Spring Framework/Spring Boot and experience with API Management
• Extensive experience architecting and designing modern business facing and consumer facing web applications including Single Page Applications using responsive design concept with Angular or React etc.
• Solid experience in cloud-based application design, development and API driven systems integration
• Hands on experience with CI/CD Tools (SVN/GitHub/Maven/Jenkins/JIRA)
• Experience with cloud native application design and development with main stream platforms and technologies
• Hands on experience with cloud technologies including AWS, GCP, OpenShift, Kubernetes, ELK etc.
• Experience with queueing and streaming technologies including IBM MQ, Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT etc.
• Experience with IBM Security Access Manager, IBM App Connect Enterprise, IBM WebSphere, IBM API Connect and Data power
• In-depth understanding of the security architecture & design (Identity management, Authentication and Authorization framework, SAML, OIDC/OAuth2, 2FA, mTLS, secret and certificate management etc.) and hands-on experience
• Hands on experience with Application Performance Management, Web Site Performance Monitoring tools and performance tuning
• Experience with application usage analytics and dashboard reporting
• Good experience with NoSQL concepts and products
• Good experience with GraphQL based API development with Apollo or similar products
• Hands on experience with implementing robust logging and tracing implementation for end-to-end systems observability and traceability
• Handson experience with code quality and coverage tools like SonarQube.
• Willing and ready to get hands on code development with dev team for developing and troubleshooting, doing quick proof of concepts for exploring new solutions, products etc.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree required (Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline). Master’s degree in technical discipline preferred.

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