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ID #40549810
State Virginia
City Fairfax
Job type Full Time
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source CGI Group, Inc.
Showed 2022-05-09
Date 2022-05-06
Deadline 2022-07-05
Category Et cetera
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Director of UI Architecture - Remote

Virginia, Fairfax, 22032 Fairfax USA

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Director of UI Architecture - Remote

Position Description CGI is one of the largest global IT companies, spread across 40 countries with endless opportunities to expand and grow. As a CGI Federal member, you have the opportunity to be a shareholder at CGI and join a family of 77,500 members. We are implementing large scale system modernization efforts across software products involving migration to modern architecture and containerized environments powered using innovative DevSecOps automations and processes. CGI Federal is looking for a UI Software Architect experienced in front end technologies and JSON/REST APIs for Product architecture group who enjoys working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You will have the unique opportunity to work with talented architecture and engineering teams to deliver high quality software products such as Momentum ERP, Sunflower that are market leaders in the Federal Government solutions space. This is a "hands-on" position requiring solid technical skills, as well as excellent interpersonal and communication skills. This person will work with the Product Managers, the development teams, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders to define solution roadmaps, develop solution designs, scope technical initiatives and epics, evaluate new technologies, and develop architecture frameworks and complex product features in support of program priorities. The ideal candidate will have experience in Software architecture and development of enterprise solutions leveraging industry leading platforms and technologies.

This job allows for a remote worker!

Your future duties and responsibilities A full time member of the Product Architecture Group, the UI Architect uses his/her deep knowledge of emerging technologies, development strategies, and development best practices to support delivery of the product roadmap. This includes opportunities to advance the baseline software and help drive overall technical architecture for large or complex initiatives such as UI modernization, evaluating technologies and/or alternate approaches, working with Product Managers to estimate and design new enhancements, and supporting program-level trade-offs on priorities.

The Software Architect role requires an individual capable of designing and developing architecture framework capabilities to ensure a solid technical runway that supports delivery of product features efficiently. This person has strong collaborative skills to work closely with other architects in the group and communicate effectively with technical and nontechnical stakeholders to continually ensure the product is of the highest quality. This person will move fluidly between the legacy and next generation applications, providing technical expertise to all teams and products in a Scale Agile Framework environment (SAFe).

The UI Architect will: Be part of the technical leadership that drives UI architecture roadmap and implement/enhance a suite of UI components that is leveraged across multiple software products. The Architect will partner with other product architects and critical stakeholders to guide overall direction of the user interface modernization and technical strategies to employ to migrate from proprietary legacy framework to modern UI frameworks incrementally Identify and evaluate current systems for opportunities to improve architecture roadmap that maximizes the use of advanced technology and seek to further modernization objectives. Develop solution design and architecture for new enhancements, systems, and technologies. Scope technical epics for an assigned initiative. Analyze options for system and technology gaps and issues in the current solutions. Evaluate and enhance existing frameworks and/or develop new framework that will be used by agile teams responsible for feature development Provide guidance and support to assigned development teams from PI planning through execution in scoping, design and implementation of functional epics/features ensuring that overall solution vision is on track, right technical trade-offs are made and issues are identified and resolved timely. Define architecture design patterns and development best practices and drive adoption across different initiatives within the Product Development team. Continuously identify and escalate any risks to product solution, quality, staffing and/or delivery commitments so they can be acted upon in timely manner. Participate in sprint and system demos for agile teams to maintain visibility on product progress and interdependencies throughout the lifecycle. Identify and offer suggestions for improvement. Participate in quality validation exercises, including subsystem assessment reviews and/or exploratory testing efforts to continuously keep a pulse on product quality and identify areas for adjustment early in the process.

Mentor developers and other technical resources to enable them to learn the ins and outs of the software and how our customers do business, provide assistance in managing trade-offs and assessing user or system impact, and promote adherence to design standards and processes to promote quality. Work with account teams and/or customers to understand technical requirements, make recommendations on overall solution and provide support for software implementations at customer site Diagnose application, infrastructure, and technology issues using various resources; define an appropriate solution; support the resolution; and document the incident record. Support estimation for new product features, including outlining solution approach, vetting approach with Product Mangers, product SMEs, UX and other stakeholders, and preparing hours-based estimates to present to management, account teams and/or investment boards.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical discipline 7+ years of experience in web development with solid understanding of MVC frameworks, servlets and JSP 5 or more years of experience as a Software Architect, Solution Architect, Principle/Senior Engineer (Lead Developer), or similar role Deep experience in design and development of highly scalable enterprise applications that run on premise or in cloud environments Solid understanding of JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5. Strong experience in JavaScript libraries/frameworks such as Angular, React, or Vue In-depth experience in API design patterns and JSON/RESTful service design and implementation Experience working with responsive design, Bootstrap, Typescript and modern frontend programming design patterns. Experience developing web components and using advanced visualizations and charting libraries such as Highcharts and modern grid system Practical experience in test driven development, designing systems in Microservices architecture & REST API's. Experience developing and documenting architecture framework capabilities for use by development teams Strong technical background and experience in Java Working knowledge in Linux environments such as RHEL Cloud native tools, patterns and open source software Java based frameworks and technologies such as JBoss, Spring Boot, Spring Data/JPA and Spring cloud. Containerization and related technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD automations and tools Domain driven design and service oriented architecture RDBMS and data modeling Proficiency in Federal accessibility standards like Section 508 Ability to translate functional designs into technical solutions. Experience implementing software enhancements that introduced new architecture modules, and/or triggered major re-engineering Ability to investigate new frameworks and libraries that bring development efficiencies Extensive experience doing design and code reviews and providing guidance to development teams. Experience with source control and build automation tools (GIT, Gradle, NPM) Experience with continuous deployment tools (e.g.Jenkins) Experience working in SAFe/Agile development environment. Team player with the ability to adapt to changing priorities and goals. Strong emphasis on teamwork and close collaboration across all roles and functions Ability to work closely with technical leads, engineering teams and architecture stakeholders for technical issues, architectural considerations and engineering assessment of product goals. Excellent communication skills. Strong presentation and leadership skills. Strong analytical, problem solving and diagnostic skills.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS Experience in full stack development Experience in mobile app development Experience in NoSQL databases or search engines like Solr Experience in Software delivery and customer implementations Experience working with remote teams Experience in Federal security standards and policies that govern web applications

Est. Salary/Hourly Range (Colorado Only): $120,000 - 200,000

Disclaimer: In accordance with Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, effective January 1, 2021, a good faith hourly or base salary range must be posted for all positions where the work may be performed in the state of Colorado. Therefore, this good faith salary range will only apply where this described position will be performed in the state, and should not be considered the compensation range in other locations or for other positions.

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Skills
  • Angular
  • CSS
  • HTML
  • Java
  • JavaScript

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