Senior Software Architect - Java Technologies/Switzerland/Onsite

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent freelance opportuning for a Senior Architect to join a leading client based in Geneva. This is a full time, onsite role, 5 days per week.

Required experience:

Mandatory:

• Extensive hands-on experience in the architecture, design, development and deployment of IT systems and web applications based on Java technologies, with a minimum of 10 years of experience.
• Strong software architecture and system design skills, with proven ability to lead technical decisions and define application architecture.
• At least 3 years of solid experience with Angular frontends.
• Strong computer science skills and excellent knowledge of software design patterns and best practices.
• Excellent communication skills in spoken and written English.
• High attention to detail and proven record of excellent teamwork

Desirable:

• Experience with QA activities.
• Familiarity with data management.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, preferably SCRUM.
• Experience with AWS services and deployment automation.
• Experience with cloud architecture and infrastructure design.

Technology and Tools:

Mandatory:

• Hands-on extensive experience in the following technical areas:
• Java, Spring (including Spring Boot), JEE, JPA, Hibernate, Maven
• Angular, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• RDBMS, ideally Oracle
• RESTful API design and microservices architecture
• AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFormation)
• Docker and containerisation
• CI/CD pipelines (Bamboo, Jenkins, or similar)
• Git and version control

Desirable:

• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo
• Performance testing and tuning
• API gateway technologies
• Monitoring and observability tools

The Senior Architect will contribute to both the architecture and hands-on development of the client IT applications, with a focus on technical leadership and delivery quality.

Key responsibilities include:

• Actively contribute to the technical architecture, design, implementation, maintenance, deployment and support of the client IT applications.
• Lead and participate in architectural decisions, code reviews, and technical design discussions.
• Write unit and functional tests to ensure high-quality work.
• Gather, interpret, and analyze business requirements as needed.

Additional expectations:

• Engage with various technical and business stakeholders to ensure that the systems are correctly implemented and can be easily maintained and supported in the future.
• Efficiently collaborate with other team members and other stakeholders, participate in code review, mentoring and knowledge transfer.
• Stay updated with the latest software development best practices and contribute to the team's efforts to improve its software development practices.
• Ensure alignment with client's technical standards and procedures.
• Deliver comprehensive technical and user documentation.

Architecture and cloud responsibilities:

• Contribute to the design and implementation of AWS cloud strategies for applications.
• Follow the SDDS and client development practices, including activity tracking with JIRA, CICD pipeline usage and alignment with CMU practices.