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Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company’s new website at: http://www.WabtecCorp.com .
It’s not just about your career… or your job title…it’s about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to go into uncharted waters…do things that haven’t been done to make yours and someone else's life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so! Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.
Application Architect
Who will you be working with?
Wabtec’s Precision Dispatch System (PDS) is an advanced software solution that provides real-time train dispatching functions that direct and control the movement of trains over a railroad network. The legacy system is being converted from a monolithic implementation to a cloud native and horizontally scaling platform with high availability aspects. Here you’ll interact daily with the PDS conversion team including the overall systems architecture team, multiple development teams, Helpdesk and DevOps teams, and senior technical leadership across the program.
How will you make a difference?
As a member of the Digital Intelligence group, the application software architect will be responsible for helping lead a large-scale, long-term product strategy centered around native cloud architecture and Java related technologies. In this role, you will lead and coordinate the domain technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction across the product portfolio or product line. Deliver Cloud Native Architecture for large Railroad for an Enterprise scale application that utilizes Microservices Software Development Principles. Work with software development teams to provide software framework components that achieve architectural objectives and accelerate software delivery. Understand security and compliance requirements; establish seamless integration with Cyber Security and Compliance teams. Support Cyber Security procedures for the product portfolio. This is an individual contributor role that reports to Senior Manager, Software Engineering.
What do we want to know about you?
You must have:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, MIS, Engineering, or a closely related field of study
Experience in architecture , software design and cloud technologies
Experience in Java, J2EE
Experience in Microservices is must and Experience in developing large resilient and reliable enterprise applications with microservices architecture (Fault Tolerance Strategies)
Experience with Kafka
Proven understanding of software and system level design patterns using Java and related software ecosystems
Strong hands-on experience on Red Hat technologies such as Quarkus , JBoss, Red Hat SSO, RHEL Or Spring, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud Technologies and Keycloak, JWT, Open API, Swagger
Experience in JPA, Hibernate and Schema evolution
Experience and excellent understanding on Event Driven Architecture
Advanced understanding of GitLab, SonarQube, Docker, Kubernetes, software design patterns for HA and versioned microservices
We would love it if you had:
Hands on experience with Quarkus framework.
Hands on experience with CockroachDB is a bonus.
Good understanding of Avro and schema registry
Experience in using application logging, tracing and performance monitoring frameworks or tools like Open Telemetry , Datadog , ELK Stack.
Experience Client side and Server-side load balancing, API Gateway.
Proven experience in delivering Highly Available 5-9s application for mission critical system.
Ability to understand the technology stack and its impact on the final product. Capable of efficiently conducting customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborate on personas.
Experience with Rally, Jira, or other defect/work tracking tools. Capable of generating Agile metrics reports (burn-up, burn-down, velocity, etc.) and interpreting the results for larger audiences.
Superior knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle and strong collaboration history with Quality Engineering and Dev Ops teams.
Strong problem-solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments to others. Ability to break down complex problems and estimate level of effort.
Clear communication skills and a strong command of the English language.
Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems
Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts
Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices
What will your typical day look like?
Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Dispatch technical architecture including tool, shared libraries and runtime efficiency
Mentor and teach the engineering teams on best practices
Work hand in hand with the Development and DevOps team
Drive delivery of configurable product architecture to solve common problems driving towards product architecture vision. Deliver framework components and design guidelines for services and library components.
Demonstrate expert level skill in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity
Engage frequently (80%) with the development team; facilitate discussions, provide clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; contributes to design activities and decisions
Maintain overall industry knowledge and trends to show leadership to employee base and customers
Provide accurate and timely status of Content plan and current execution status to Wabtec engineering leadership
Demonstrate superior persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering team
Demonstrates excelling business acumen, knows latest industry trends and is looked at as an internal expert on the product as well as the associated competitive landscape.
Wabtec Corporation is committed to taking on the world’s toughest challenges. In order to fulfill that commitment we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity and inclusiveness. We aim to employ the world’s brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences and styles…people like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.