Development Architect

SAP•Stanford, CA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Ariba, Inc. seeks a Development Architect at our Palo Alto, CA location responsible for the aligned and consistent architecture of a product, part of a product or a specific architecture subject (e.g. integration, software lifecycle).

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, or a related field of study and seven (7) years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation. Alternatively, a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, or a related field of study and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.
Designing high-volume web applications with scalability and high availability;
Developing Relational Database management systems utilizing JDBC, JPA, Hibernate, SQL, PL/SQL, and query optimization;
Full Stack development utilizing C#, Java 6.x to 11.x, Spring boot (v4-v5), Spring cloud and UI development utilizing Angular 1.x-12x, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Typescript;
Datadog, Splunk, and Dynatrace;
Completing product development life cycle (PDLC) from gathering requirements to deployment and feature rollout;
Designing and building RESTful API with JSON, XML, DTD, Kafka, and Caching;
Utilizing Junit, Karma test framework and code coverage; and other industry-standard tools such as Microsoft Team Foundation Server, Maven, Docker, Jenkins, IntelliJ IDEA, and Git.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the aligned and consistent architecture strategy or a target architecture of product line, product family, or a specific cross-product architecture subject (e.g. user interface strategy, platform strategy).
Evaluate architecture risks and estimate effort for business case or backlog item, prepare management decisions on these topics.
Translate business and product requirements into technical requirements, models and software architecture.
Collect and document requirements and constraints with high impact on the architecture as basis for architectural decisions.
Responsible for defining the product's architecture together with implementation team(s), drive alignment of architecture concepts and ensure documentation in architecture concept document(s).
Identify opportunities for reuse of architecture concepts or software parts and cross-team synergies.
Align architecture with stakeholders regarding architectural or technical dependencies.
Support and advise product owner by ensuring technical and architectural feasibility, readiness, and compliance.
Responsible for setting up collaboration with the developers/architects of the product team/implementation team(s).
Coach and advise implementation team(s) on all aspects which have impact on the architecture, review design documents of implementation teams regarding compliance with ACD and relevant product line guideline.
Monitor implementation of the architecture concepts together with implementation team.
Implement software parts, typically related to infrastructure or architecture.
Propose improvements and innovations for implementing a product but also in development processes and methodologies.