Careers

ThoughtMatrix is looking for an experienced technical architect for a dynamic position with our fast-growing Web consulting firm. Candidate must be a problem solver who is passionate about new technology and a high-energy leader who can manage development teams and client relationships and can also serve in a hands-on role.

The Senior Systems Architect:

• Acts independently, or leads a group of technical contributors, while maintaining top-level responsibility for detailed systems analysis and design during proposal development and/or project implementation
• Has hands-on experience with implementing large-scale Web infrastructures
• Formulates approach to systems scope and objectives relative to a client's requirements
• Articulates the client's problems and primary business drivers and develops conceptual, logical and physical solutions which address those needs
• Leads architecture and design of high impact projects that meet client needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability and time to market.
• Effectively integrates core capabilities with new technology to successfully implement systems development projects and standards definitions
• Participates in client meetings and presentations to set expectations and to discuss client responsibilities, requirements, initiatives and concepts
• Validates existing system architectures and makes recommendations for improvements
• Maintains a broad knowledge of current industry technologies, methodologies and designs, and their applicability and appropriateness in various solution architectures
• Demonstrates confidence and credibility in front of senior management and clients
• Demonstrates ability to identify, define, create and apply innovative architectural design patterns and standards to extremely complex problems
• Possesses the ability to facilitate and lead work groups, and works productively with a wide range of people
• Has excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Has a strong understanding of the Agile development model and methodologies, including Scrum, as well as traditional waterfall methods
• Provides accurate estimates of effort required to develop and deploy technical components of overall solutions
• Provides hands-on development support to project teams where necessary

Preferred technical skills include:

• Java, J2EE
• Spring
• Hibernate
• Ruby on Rails
• Adobe Flex 3.0 and Flex Builder
• Data modeling
• Web services
• JDBC
• Object modeling
• Modern cloud architectures
• Oracle or other Enterprise RDBMS
• WebSphere or WebLogic a plus

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent degree or experience is required.
• Master degree in Computer Science or MIS preferred.
• Minimum of 7 years developing J2EE Web applications and at least 3 years as a lead engineer or architect
• Extensive experience building high traffic enterprise Web sites
• Strong understanding of high performance Web site architectures and patterns