Web Application Architect

About the role

Position Type: Contract - 6 Months

Candidates must have hands-on technical expertise developing responsive web applications, including the design of the front-end presentation layer using modern techniques and integrating with back-end services and data sources in a micro-services based architecture that is hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

The candidate's ability to interact and communicate effectively with customers, end users, developers and key project stakeholders is very important. Candidates must also possess the ability to rapidly come up to speed on technologies they may be unfamiliar with and translate the newly gained knowledge into high-quality deliverable.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead development efforts for modern web applications that serve Canon's photographic community.
• Design and develop high-quality, scalable, web architectures utilizing responsive web designs that also serve mobile clients
• Perform requirements analysis, architectural design, and implementation of the applications.
• Find creative solutions to challenges that can bring together differing requirements into a unified whole.
• Effectively engage with customers, end users and key project stakeholders to gain a complete understanding of business requirements and goals.
• Apply an iterative and agile approach to the development effort.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (BS/BE) in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• At least five years hands-on experience in architecting and developing web applications covering all layers, from presentation and middle tier to backend.
• Experience with interfacing web applications to back end databases (PostgreSQL, etc.) and in integrating with cloud or other web-based services via API's is important.
• Experience in dealing with scalability and other operational issues in relation to web application deployment.
• Familiarity working with databases, making queries and performing normalization. Experience with PostgreSQL databases is a plus.
• Experience with JavaScript/HTML/CSS, Google Cloud Platform, DevOps, Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery, micro-services architectures, Apache Kafka, CircleCI, Node.js, React.js, GraphQL, responsive web designs, PostgreSQL, Jira, mobile development (iOS, Android), Kubernetes, Docker, and Git.
• Working knowledge of core network security concepts is desired.
• Experience in leading a technical project team and/or performing project management duties is required.
• Good writing skills for creating technical documentation are required.
• Experience in working within an Agile environment is required.

Additional Information

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