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Job Title: Application Architect

Location: Hybrid - based in Columbus, OH or Chicago, IL

Employment: Contract to Hire

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Job Summary:

Heitmeyer Consulting is currently seeking a seasoned Application Architect to support a financial services client in expanding and maturing its enterprise resiliency program. This individual will play a critical role in helping design, evaluate, and enhance resilient technology solutions across the organization. The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise, a strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, and the ability to think strategically about how systems are designed, built, deployed, and maintained.

Job Responsibilities:

• Partner with engineering, architecture, infrastructure, and business teams to strengthen enterprise resiliency capabilities.
• Evaluate existing applications and platforms for resiliency, recoverability, and operational readiness.
• Provide architectural guidance across the full software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, solution design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Assess and recommend approaches for backup, recovery, restoration, and disaster recovery processes.
• Identify resiliency gaps and develop strategic roadmaps for improvement.
• Contribute to cloud and infrastructure architecture decisions with a focus on reliability and recoverability.
• Support the implementation of resilient application and data architectures across distributed environments.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure resiliency considerations are embedded into software delivery practices and establish appropriate governance and controls to mitigate risks related to application vulnerabilities, performance, and overall system resiliency.

Required Skills:

• Proven experience as an Architect, Principal Engineer, Lead Engineer, or similar senior technical role.
• Strong understanding of the complete software development lifecycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, architecture and design, coding, testing, deployment, and production operations.
• Hands-on experience developing applications using Java and containerized via delivery pipeline.
• Experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
• Strong understanding of relational databases and data modeling concepts.
• Understanding of NoSQL technologies and distributed data architectures.
• Knowledge of structured and unstructured data and the considerations for each.
• Ability to evaluate technology solutions from both a strategic and technical perspective.
• Knowledge of resilient API-based integration architectures, including RESTful services, microservices communication patterns, throttling, retry mechanisms, and secure API management across distributed environments.
• Experience with application performance monitoring (APM) and observability platforms (e.g., Dynatrace, Datadog), including telemetry, distributed tracing, and centralized logging to support proactive monitoring, incident response, and system resiliency.

Preferred Skills:

• Previous experience supporting an enterprise resiliency, ransomware recovery, or business continuity program.
• Experience working within the banking or financial services industry.
• Understanding of backup and recovery strategies, including data restoration and recovery testing processes.
• Familiarity with application recovery, infrastructure recovery, and operational resiliency best practices.
• Experience working in complex, highly regulated environments.
• Familiarity with Generative AI to improve system resiliency and operations, including intelligent automation, incident analysis, and knowledge-driven support solutions.

Heitmeyer Consulting is an equal opportunity employer and we encourage all qualified candidates to apply. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to minority status, gender, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.