Microservice Architect at Vennote Technologies Limited

Vennote Technologies Limited is a well-established ICT company with experience spanning over two decades in enterprise solutions using best of breed products in very large IT deployments around the world. Vennote Technologies Limited has certified Skilled Technical resources delivering world class implementation and support services through the use of best practices.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Microservice Architect

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time

Key Responsibilities

• Solution Architect for Microservice responsible for designing and implementing microservices-based solutions.
• Analyzing technological environment and creating solution prototype.
• Communicate and consult with clients and internal stakeholders to develop appropriate solutions.
• Lead brainstorming sessions to develop potential solutions for business needs or problems.
• Generate a technical document for the development team.
• Design and build function-centric solutions in the context of transition from traditional, legacy platforms to microservices architectures, micro front end services
• Define and refactor multi-channel client architecture offering and providing differentiated end-user experiences by leveraging containerization and cloud technology
• Outline the governance and microservices development guiding principles as well as ensuring the best practices are followed by the development team
• Work collaboratively with an agile, scrum-based team to understand the business domain and client requirements that drive analysis, architecture/design and development of quality technical solutions and deliverables. These solutions cross a broad spectrum of technologies and must align with business and IT strategies and to comply with the organization’s architectural and security standards.
• Govern DevOps methodologies, ensure all solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment
• Participate in coordinated planning sessions and provide effort estimates for business initiatives of IT solutions
• Remains abreast of industry technical trends and new development to maintain current skills and remain current with industry standards.

Requirements
Qualifications and Knowledge:

• Bachelor’s Degree and 8+ years of technical experience within architecture development, integration of backend systems and development.
• Hands on experience developing applications using Java/J2EE, with Spring boot framework knowledge and experience.
• Deep knowledge of SOA, Architecture and Design on Micro services, REST Services Development
• Experience with containerization and cloud technologies (eg. OpenShift, Kubernetes, Dockers, Mesos, AWS) as well as DevOps and testing tools (Git, SVN, TFS, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Nexus, Selenium, SonarQube)
• Experience with cloud-based, CD/CI or DevOps development environment
• A strong hands-on development track records building integration and application utilizing a variety of technologies, development tools and database systems.
• Good experience in Agile methodology.
• Experience working with MS-SQL server database.
• Good communication skills both in writing and verbally with ability to present the complex ideas or technical solution to business and/or management team.
• Domain knowledge in Financial Services industry is compulsory.
• Good personal computer and business solutions software skills
• Analytical and problem-solving skills for design, creation and testing of programs
• Ability to work as part of team and independently
• Interpersonal skills to interact with team members
• Communication skills to work effectively with Scrum team members, support personnel, and clients
• Ability to work independently as a lead and as part of a team.

Technical / Functional Skills:

• Extensive experience on Java, Spring boot
• Strong experience on RedHat Openshift/ Pivotal Cloud Foundry/ Docker Container
• Experience using CI/CD (DevOps)
• Have implemented at least 1 large Microservices program and successfully deployed in Production.

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance
• Pension Plan
• Training & Development
• Performance Bonus
• Hybrid work plan

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.