Azure Solution Architect

Who We Are!

At Maven Wave, we are relentless in hiring the industry’s top talent. Each employee is hand-picked not only for their skills, but for their personality and broad expertise. We are looking for this rare combination of talent that sets us apart in the industry.

Maven Wave helps leading companies make the shift to digital and shorten the fuse to innovation. We combine the expertise of top-tier consulting with the agility of a cutting-edge technology firm. This multidisciplinary blend of skills allows us to create unique digital advantages for our clients. Maven Wave’s digital solutions are agile, mobile, rooted in analytics, and built in the cloud.

Your Life As A Maven:

• Partner with customers, account managers, business development, engineering, and product teams to craft scalable, flexible and resilient architectures that address customer business problems. 
• Comfortable working through all stages of the application-development life-cycle, including  requirements gathering, development, testing, deployment, and support/troubleshooting.
• Design and develop high throughput and low latency streaming and complex event processing applications using modern frameworks like Apache Beam, Kafka, Flink and Airflow.
• Help enterprise clients modernize their legacy application portfolio and assist them on digital transformation journeys.

Your Expertise:

• Proven track record of delivering results in software/technology consulting environments working well with globally distributed teams with responsibility for owning the overall solution architecture, delegating work to team members, mentoring and maintaining strong relationships with both team members and client stakeholders.
• 10+ years experience in hands on application development using C# .NET, Java, or Python and Microsoft SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, Oracle (or similar RDBMS). 
• 3+ years experience architecting in Azure including experience with IaaS,  PaaS, networking offerings.
• 3+ years experience in hands-on application development using containerization technologies such as Kubernetes. 
• 3+ years experience designing and working with event-driven architectures using various messaging protocols such as AMQP or WebSockets.
• 3+ years experience working with globally distributed applications and dealing with concerns like performance, data replication, availability and scalability.
• Must have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Technology, Computer Information Systems, Computer Applications, Engineering, or a related field.

Your X-Factor:

• Aptitude - You have an innate capacity to transition from project to project without skipping a beat.
• Communication - You have excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordination across projects and teams.
• Impact - You are a critical thinker with an emphasis on creativity and innovation.
• Passion - You have the drive to succeed paired with a continuous hunger to learn.
• Leadership - You are trusted, empathetic, accountable, and empower others around you.

Why We’re Proud To Be Mavens!  

• Google Cloud’s Technology Partner of the Year in Infrastructure, 2021
• AWS Mainframe Migration Competency Achievement, 2021
• Google Cloud Social Impact Partner of the Year, Atos, 2020
• Top Small Workplaces, Chicago Tribune, #33, 2020
• Crain’s Chicago Business Fast 50 List, #22, 2020
• Global Women in Telco and Tech Awards, Marketing or Social Campaign of the Year, 2020
• Great Place to Work and FORTUNE, Best Workplaces in Consulting and Professional Services, #9, 2020
• Inc. 5000 Series: Midwest List of Top Businesses, #118, 2020
• Built In Chicago’s Best Midsize Companies to Work for List
• Great Place to Work’s Best Workplaces in Chicago
• Great Place to Work Certified

Ready to Learn More?

• Digital Transformation at Maven Wave
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