Microservices Architect (Closed)

SkillStorm is seeking a JavaScript Developer for our client in Charlotte, NC OR New York, NY OR New Jersey. Candidates must be able to work on SkillStorm's W2; not a C2C position. EOE, including disability/vets.

Job Description:

• Client is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services.
• We are committed to attracting and retaining top talent across the globe to ensure our continued success. Along with taking care of our customers, we want to be the best place for people to work and aim at creating a work environment where all employees have the opportunity to achieve their goals

Who Are We?

• We are building a new strategic data platform for NFRR (Non-Finance Regulatory Reporting). This is a new initiative focused on ADS enrichment, Data Movement Frameworks, Digitized Data Management, Data quality monitoring and regulatory reporting
• We work in a dynamic environment where team members are flexible, self-sufficient; learn the business, the data and the technology stack with minimal supervision and lead the push for horizontally scalable, high performance applications.

About the Role:

• As a Senior Architect you will be key contributor as an SME providing scalable and best of class industry pattern towards the design and development of Node-based micro services solution stack on Docker & Kubernetes container.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with UX, Product, and Business teams to architect elegant Backend APIs and Data Models
• Define and direct team in Performance, Scalability, and Security
• Provide technical expertise and leadership in technology direction, road-mapping, architecture definition, design, development, and delivery of enterprise-class solutions while adhering to timelines, coding standards, requirements, and quality.
• Provide technical expertise and hands-on contribution towards to establish and integrated CI-CD DEVOPS automation.

We Are Looking For Candidates With:

• 8-10 years of experience with expert knowledge of the server-side web application frameworks, messaging frameworks, NO SQL/Relational Databases and data movement frameworks.
• Hands on experience on Python & Scala.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience of providing vision and leading the architecture, design and development of complex, highly scalable, Enterprise platforms and RESTful APIs
• A deep understanding of computer science foundations including data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
• Experience in building and consuming REST APIs using NPM/Node.js Express and related frameworks (such as Jest, OpenAPI) and processing data (JSON)
• Hands-on development experience using functional programming constructs Familiarity with the “pythonic” eco-system (Pandas, Jupyter notepad etc)
• Experience in building applications using GraphQL on server side
• Good understanding on JS/typescript concepts on callbacks and closures.
• A thorough understanding of cloud-native architectures, container orchestration, microservices and operational best practices in the cloud.
• Hands on expertise in deploying and scaling a Kubernetes container-as-a-service platform
• Experience in using NoSQL (MongoDB) data models document, key-value & wide column, or graph model is plus.
• Expertise in performance profiling, ability to identify performance improvements and memory optimizations
• Unit testing experience with tools like Jest, Karma and/or Jasmine
• Experience CI/CD automation using tools such as Git/Jenkins/Ansible
• A deep understanding of computer science foundations including data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
• Experience in using NoSQL (MongoDB) data models document, key-value & wide column, or graph model is plus.

Education:

• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

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