Design Test Automation Engineer

Kforce has a client in Birmingham, AL that is seeking a Design Test Automation Engineer to join their team. In this role, you will oversee multiple dimensions of assigned applications and/or capabilities. Primary Responsibilities:

• Manages end to end from conception, into production of solution architectures
• Partners with business and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions
• Participates in the design and modeling of architectures for delivery, development, and support of projects
• Collaborates with other domain architects to provide a consensus based scalable and adaptable architectural solution
• Collaborates on roadmaps to ensure enough architectural runway to align information technology priorities
• Promotes the reuse of services, components, frameworks, and infrastructure as code to reduce costs and improve how information flows
• Supports team members on the design of deployment strategies and solutions
• Look for opportunities to simplify
• Builds and maintains technical trusted advisor relationships
• Makes recommendations to improve application operational efficiency, enhance program usage and increase understanding of the program
• Designs both the physical and logical components of solution architectures that will deliver a positive business outcome
• Works closely with Enterprise Architecture to ensure compliance with architectural principles and patterns
• Provides feedback
• Works closely with Cyber Security
• Works with all stakeholders to understand non-functional requirements
• Works with software delivery teams to ensure that the solutions are observable and secure by design
• Oversees technical analysis and design capabilities
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field and five (5) years of enterprise, solutions and/or technical architecture related experience; Or a High School diploma/GED and nine (9) years of enterprise, solutions and/or technical architecture related experience
• Experience of N-tier architectures and complex design architectures
• Experience with Agile methods
• Experience with technical, application, and information architecture delivery techniques and methodologies
• Advanced knowledge of security design techniques
• Advanced understanding of, and ability to use, design patterns to steer business requirements into technical strategies
• Awareness and ability to document designs using internal and external notational standards
• Hands on the keyboard depth in one or more popular programming languages like Python
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, platforms, and cloud native serverless architectures
• Knowledge of containers and container orchestration
• Knowledge of instrumentation, telemetry, and observability frameworks and platforms
• Ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly