Application Architect

Associated Wholesale Grocers•Kansas City, KS

11h•Remote

About The Position

AWG is looking for an Application Architect in Information Technology (IT) to provide architectural and leadership oversight for strategic, business-transforming technical solutions in IT service and support. The Application Architect is a premier customer-facing role serving as an advisor, subject-matter expert, and delivery partner for our customers. As an experienced Architect with a focus on solution implementation, you’ll be responsible for guiding our customers from concept to go-live and rollout. You are a passionate technologist who is up to date on the latest technologies, can dive into processes and love applying your skills to solve a customer challenge.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related degree.
10+ years of application development experience, with focus on application architecture.
Experience developing applications and services (APIs) using React, Java, and Spring Boot (or similar).
Experience with source code repository using GitHub, Azure DevOps or others.
Experience with source code branching using Gitflow, trunk-base or similar.
Experience with microservices architecture.
Experience in designing, developing, and implementing high performing, large scale, and complex systems including integration with third-party applications.
Experience with technical mentorship of teammates.
Experience executing the organizational operation of vision and goals, in alignment with department leadership.
Experience with Azure/AWS/ cloud or managed services.
Experience with containerization technology (Docker; orchestration tools, i.e. Kubernetes).
Experience with common programming languages (React, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS).
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Accomplished interpersonal and communication skills, demonstrating a clear and articulate standard of written and verbal communications to various levels of audiences.
Ability to work independently, self-starter, highly motivated, resourceful.
Demonstrated knowledge of multiple technologies over career and ability to learn new technologies.
Ability to work as a committed member of a cross-functional team, sharing ideas and inputs from different perspectives in working towards delivering an exceptional product experience.
Solid experience with full SDLC – requirements, design, development, testing, and deployment using waterfall and/or agile methodologies.
Experience working with relational databases.
Excels in working remotely with remote team members.

Nice To Haves

Retail, wholesale, or Consumer Product Goods industry experience.
Knowledge of security best practices (OWASP, CBE, NIST, etc).
Knowledge of Azure resources such as Logic App, Service Bus, Azure Functions, APIM, or similar cloud technologies.
ETL development experience.
Knowledge of event-based/message architectures.
Knowledge of virtual networking (public, private, and hybrid networks and subnetworks), network interfaces, and identity/access management (security groups and roles, network access control lists).
Knowledge of latest DevOps technologies (Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, IaC frameworks such as Ansible).
Knowledge in solution evaluation/selection and implementation for large scale, and complex environments.

Responsibilities

Work independently to develop solutions based on requirements using AWG standards.
Designs and develops web-enabled client-side and server-side applications as part of a structured Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process.
Ensures the changes developed are high quality, meet business and technical requirements.
Ensure all solutions include clear technical documentation, architectural diagrams, and user-facing guides, along with robust logging practices that support monitoring, troubleshooting, and long-term maintainability.
Develops reliable solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity.
Troubleshoot and develop a solution to the problem.
Engages with and supports a development team and support organization, without supervisor responsibilities.
On-call responsibilities.
Collaborate with customers to understand their business problems or needs and desired outcomes.
In collaboration with other members of the team, build reusable assets and materials that enable the AWG community.
Identifies and implements opportunities for system improvement around stability, performance, and maintainability.
Open to receive and give constructive feedback.
Serve as a mentor to less experienced IT Software Engineers.