Solution Architect Kazakhstan or Remote

What You’ll Do

• Lead and deliver on the overall coding, technical direction, and strategy of the area
• Gain a deep technical understanding of the existing technical stack, principles, policies, and standards
• Evangelize future direction, technology choices, modernize frameworks, project deliverables, and practices/policies for continuous improvement
• Take ownership of your respective area of the ecosystem and the direction of this product/domain
• Lead technical teams through multi-phased delivery projects and provide hands-on guidance to influence standards for development, governance, and operational life cycle
• Collaborate with technical teams to instill CI & Development best practices
• Promote continuous learning
• Develop POCs and perform code reviews with a focus on design principles, simple testable code, and quality at the fore
• Work closely with product teams to ensure delivery of these solutions to enhance our business capabilities
• Support and mentor technical teams to encourage growth & foster an innovative and inquisitive development culture
• Contribute to IT strategy, API governance, standards, and technical evaluations to drive our strategic goals

What You Have

• Extensive background in Java technologies, Spring Framework, and REST services
• Demonstrable design knowledge, including API design principles, SOA, event-driven systems, and similar design patterns and techniques
• Showcase of web-based systems, service-based, and enterprise application architecture
• Expertise in applying architecture & working in an agile environment
• Highly analytical mindset, with an ability to see both the big picture and the details
• Efficient communication skills, ability to present technical information to a non-technical audience
• Cloud AWS

Nice to have

• Knowledge of high-volume e-Commerce/retail and Services architectures
• Competency in breaking monolith applications into microservices during the migration into Cloud (AWS is preferable)
• Background in building and migrating applications, software, and services into Cloud (AWS is preferable)
• Strong organizational and leadership skills
• Ability to lead, mentor & motivate developers to ensure high-quality code deliverables & practices

Technologies

• Java, Spring, REST, API, SOA, AWS (preferable)

We Offer

• Outstanding career development opportunities with a transparent roadmap to accelerate your journey
• Knowledge sharing within the community of industry’s top professionals worldwide
• Various opportunities for self-development: hard & soft skills internal training courses, mentoring programs, and unlimited access to 8,000+ LinkedIn Learning courses
• Free English classes with certified teachers
• Competitive compensation in USD, regular assessments, and salary reviews
• Bonuses for participating in the referral program
• Flexible schedule and opportunity to work remotely from any place in Kazakhstan
• Friendly team, and enjoyable working environment
• Relocation opportunities within our offices in 50+ countries with throughout support for you and your family
• 28 vacation days and 6 trust days per year (sick leave without a medical certificate)
• Medical & family care programs, corporate and social events

About EPAM

• EPAM Kazakhstan is a team of technologists and innovators united by a passion for technology. Today we operate across all cities with offices in Astana, Almaty, and Karaganda and work with the world's leading companies from different industries. EPAM builds a continuously learning organization and helps its employees reach their full potential and achieve their professional goals through learning. Our agile methodologies, customer collaboration frameworks, engineering excellence programs, and hybrid teams offer many career paths and development opportunities