Technical Architect

Description

The Technical Architect role combines traditional enterprise application integration architecture with current website architecture models such as web services and content management to deliver service oriented architectures for Fortune Cookie’s local government and corporate clients. It also involves pre-sales support for prospective clients where you will be working with the sales team to scope and present technical project proposals.

You must be able to work with a heterogeneous team including business analysts, project managers, data analysts, developers and designers and must be confident in dealing with client representatives at all levels of an organisation. In certain cases you will lead on-site client teams.

You must be able to architect intuitive, accessible, high-performance web based systems that integrate with line-of-business systems that will vary from modern J2EE or .Net based systems through to “dumb terminals” and mainframes. You will need to be comfortable working with diverse tools, ranging from BizTalk Server 2004 and VisualStudio.NET through to JBoss and Eclipse.

While you should be able to design systems using both .Net and J2EE this role has an emphasis on J2EE and the ideal candidate’s experience will include a predominance of J2EE development for the enterprise.

You must have excellent communication skills including written English, verbal presentation and visual representation.

This role also involves taking an active part in the development and review of internal business processes and new initiatives.

Technical Architecture

• Must have experience in facilitating meetings with project stakeholders to capture requirements
• Must have experience with documenting requirements through the use of process flows, preferably using both BPMN (for high-level process design) and UML activity diagrams for low-level system design
• Capturing website functional requirements and documenting
• Must have experience in logical data design (as opposed to the physical data design methods listed below)
• Must have experience designing schemas for relational database systems
• Must have experience designing schemas for XML to model data
• Must have experience in transforming XML data using XSLT
• Must have actual development experience of J2EE in an enterprise environment
• Must have experience in designing distributed, transactional systems
• Must have experience with asynchronous, message oriented programming
• Must have experience with at least one major middleware product (BizTalk, Webmethods, TIBCO etc)
• Must have experience in building and consuming web services and related technologies such as WS-Security, SOAP, BPEL4WS and UDDI
• Should have experience in documenting system requirements using SDSM techniques
• Must have experience of logical design of n-tier architectures.
• Should have some knowledge of XHTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Pre-sales & Project management

• Must have experience in assisting sales people to specify, describe and estimate proposed solutions as part of a commercial offer
• Must be able to identify risks inherent to particular technology solutions
• Must be able to work in a team with a sales person to deliver presentations in a pitch context
• Must understand project management methodologies and be familiar with PRINCE2. While actual project management is not part of this, you will be expected to contribute to definitions of business cases for technical projects
• Must be able to break down technical projects into discrete tasks to assist in the creation of a project plan
• Must have good time-management skills and be able to report progress on projects to a project manager.

Experience

• 4-6 years experience developing web applications within enterprise architectures including implementing Content Management Systems and middleware
• 1-2 years experience with middleware, web services and SOA
• Experience of working within government sector