Technical Architect

A Career at HARMAN
As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you’ll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do every day.

About the Role:
Work with customer stakeholder to build software application, backend & API. Maintain clear understanding of strategic goals, business challenges and customer needs.

What You Will Do:

• Closely working with clients and stakeholders to define software specification; Interfacing with business clients, gathering requirements and delivering complete software application.
• Build software solution using Microsoft Azure technologies, AKS.
• Lead design and development of highly available software solutions (e.g., Microsoft Azure) to support business applications ensuring systems scalability, security, performance and reliability.
• Providing technical consultation and leadership to strategic program/ project/ product partners/ software engineering teams.
• Perform detailed analysis to build interface definitions across different logical subsystems of software solutions.
• Perform technical/ system risk analysis, system validation and build risk mitigation action plans along with technical architects & engineering teams.
• Collaborating with Solution Architects and Design teams for implement CICD frameworks/pipeline and tool alignment.
• Dockerize ASP.NET core APIs
• Prepare Deployment artifacts (helm charts) for ASP .NET core APIs
• Configure Front door and Application gateway for multi region deployment.
• Deployment strategies for zero or minimal downtime
• Configure Readiness and Liveness Probes in a cluster
• Upgrade and Rollback Applications deployed on Kubernetes
• Secret Management in Azure Kubernetes
• Volume mounting in Azure Kubernetes
• Establishing intra pod communication
• Troubleshoot Applications Deployed using Logs
• Using Microsoft platform technologies (ASP.NET Web API) and Azure, design, build and modify existing business-tier components, Web applications, and database objects. 
• Build highly scalable cloud based micro-services using technologies and languages such as C#, Azure, .NET Core
• Consider scalability, portability/monitoring, reliability, testability and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.
• Evaluating and recommending new technologies that will take the business to the next level.
• Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas
• Work with software, database engineers and provide technical solutions to solve cross-functional software design challenges.
• Work with top class engineering teams spread across the globe in offshore onsite model.
• Proactively articulate status, issues, and resolution to team, leads, and project managers.

What You Need:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Must have 12-14 yrs. experience. Must have onsite experience on lead & coordination.
• Deep knowledge and understanding of .NET Core Framework.
• Strong Web/UI development experience with (React or/ and Angular 2).
• Experience on Azure & back end (AKS, App Service, Functions, Storage, Load balancer, SQL and many more services offered by Azure.
• Strong development, debugging and troubleshooting skill on C#, .Net Core Web API, backend.
• Strong Conceptual understanding of Azure Cloud and understanding PaaS based services and solution.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of Object-Oriented Design Patterns and Principles.
• Experience on Unit testing of C# bases code modules or ability to write unit testable code in C#.
• Design, build and maintain efficient and reliable C# code with Object oriented design concepts.
• Experience with Agile – Scrum development process with Azure DevOps.
• Experience on Microservices, AKS with cloud-based load balancer.
• Knowledge on APIs (Service) high availability, Security, Autoscaling, high performance, geo replication and multi geo deployment.
• Experience on ADO CI/ CD pipelines.
• Ability to solve complex business problem through logical and creative thinking.
• Great aptitude to synthesize complex information.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong track record as a hands-on engineer designing and delivering elegant solutions to meet complex design and architectural challenges in a cloud services environment.

What is Nice to Have:

• Master's degree or higher Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
• Experience of working on Fraud detection solutions.

What we offer: 

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• Flexible work schedule with a culture encouraging work-life integration and collaboration in a global environment.
• Access to employee discounts on world-class HARMAN/Samsung products (JBL, Harman Kardon, AKG etc.)
• Professional development opportunities through HARMAN University’s business and leadership academies.
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development in an innovative and collaborative culture.
• “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program.
• Work on best-in-class emerging technologies and an atmosphere that pushes you to give your best.

Certain HARMAN Employees (and their families) are eligible to elect medical, dental, vision, FSA, and life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan. Employees will also accrue up to three weeks of vacation annually, eleven paid holidays, two floating holidays, and one volunteer day throughout the calendar year. Additionally, employees are eligible to participate in various well-being and employee assistance programs.

$ 120,750 - $ 177,100

HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.