Senior Application Security Engineer Jobs in Georgia

• The Senior Application Architect will be responsible for articulating an architectural vision, conceptualizing architectural approaches, developing and validating the architecture and high level solution design against business requirements, and guiding and mentoring development teams on methodologies, processes and best practices according to Architecture Framework based on TOGAF. The Senior Application Architect will be expected to work on multiple tasks and initiatives concurrently while being accountable for driving success through:
• Leadership. Knowing when to focus on the details or taking a step back to look at the big picture and evaluating an issue. The architect enforces engineering methodology, reviews engineering design packages and drives to minimize technical exposure and risks on projects. The ideal candidate is a trusted technical advisor that collaborates with both business and technical stakeholders, sets direction, builds consensus, mediates conflicts, and helps to create an environment which solicits contributions from all participants. Excellent client-facing skills and executive presence are essential to the role.
• Promoting a Passion for Technology. The Senior Application Architect is expected to evangelize best practices for application engineering, component re-use, architecture design and technical standards, while maintaining an awareness of new / emerging technologies and their potential application to existing service offerings. An understanding of architectural solutions to address functional and non-functional requirements is critical, as is hands-on experience implementing technical solutions. As a technical thought leader, the Senior Application Architect also understands that the architectural vision for the enterprise transcends the scope and lifespan of any individual project or effort.
• Collaboration and Ingenuity. The Senior Application Architect drives the solution architecture model and ingenuity is crucial to the problem solving and critical thinking skills required to craft successful results. The position brings facts and requirements to life in ways which inspire and motivate solution development. To achieve these goals, the Senior Application Architect is engaged throughout solution delivery, working closely with the following key organizational groups:
• Enterprise Architecture to understand, define and apply enterprise level standards and influence business strategy
• Application Engineering Leads, Technical Leads and staff to drive strategic goals/objectives
• Infrastructure Architecture to understand, validate and action infrastructure impacts
• Project Management to coordinate solutions from technical perspective and minimize technical risk
• Business Analysts to understand and clarify functional and non-functional requirements
• Quality Assurance to effectively support proper testing
• Information Security to ensure compliance with secure development standards and negotiate security trade-offs
• Operations to take into account operational (non-functional) requirements

• Communication. The Senior Application Architect is expected to proactively identify and address technical strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Listening is the most effective art form available to gain these insights. A successful Senior Application Architect will build a shared understanding of the solution with the capacity for communicating that vision though technical materials, verbal presentations, and facilitating inter-team discussion.

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalency (CS, CE, CIS, IS, MIS, or engineering discipline)
• Minimum 6 years' experience as a software architect, providing technical leadership/guidance/mentorship
• Extensive, real-world experience designing enterprise software and defining solution architectures and technology (UML, design patterns, SOA, EAI, BPI, etc.)
• Experience building and supporting mission critical applications, running in a highly distributed manner.
• Experience with multi-tier system development for large enterprises.
• Experience in designing applications using relational databases, such as SQL Server , Oracle etc.
• Knowledge of leading Business Intelligence/Reporting tools or reporting database design
• Experience in designing and engineering applications using J2EE, .Net technologies.
• Good Understanding of Open Source stack desirable.
• Good understanding of Cloud Based architecture and practices
• Good understanding of Multi Tenancy based applications
• Through understanding of SOAP and REST based architectures.
• Exposure to application security technologies and approaches such as SSO, federation etc.
• Experience in full development lifecycle phases
• Familiarity with various requirements gathering techniques
• Familiarity with configuration management concepts and tools
• Familiarity with software usability [UX/UI] concepts
• Software prototyping experience
• Must be able to communicate fluently in English, both written and verbal.
• Demonstrated knowledge of industry trends and standards
• Familiar with architecture principles and frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, Gartner, DOD etc.)

The following industry qualifications are desirable:

• Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert: Business intelligence
• TOGAF 9 certified

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