Principal Technical Architect - Apache ActiveMQ Artemis

$150,000 - $180,000/Yr

Cognizant Technology Solutions - Mount Sterling, KY

Full-time - Principal

Remote - Mount Sterling, KY

10,001+ employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Principal Technical AMQ Artemis Architect role at Cognizant is a permanent, remote position focused on leading the architecture and performance testing of Corporate and Online Applications using the Artemis MQ platform. The role requires a collaborative approach to identify critical data flows, recommend performance testing strategies, and ensure high-performing and resilient application setups. The ideal candidate will possess strong interpersonal skills and a comprehensive understanding of integration and performance testing in a cloud environment.

Responsibilities

• Review and validate the End-to-End Architecture of Corporate and Online Applications Data Flow.
• Identify Critical, High Volume, Complex and Historically problematic Data Flows working with Business and IT teams.
• Recommend the list of Data Flows that qualifies for an intensive performance testing exercise based on the information provided by customer team.
• Review the existing Artemis MQ design and provide load/production environment setup requirements from Artemis MQ standpoint.
• Identify test strategy for Artemis Online & Corporate Architecture performance requirements.
• Collaborate with Customer team for identification of business-critical key scenarios, NFR identification & definition of SLA/SLI/SLOs for the corporate applications.
• Identify relevant chaos testing scenarios and strategy for the corporate applications in collaboration with customer team.
• Review the Artemis architecture that includes Artemis infra, Artemis configs, Artemis architecture and resiliency.
• Review and provide feedback for the load testing tool on how to scale it out to online and corporate volume from an industry standard standpoint.
• Conduct assessment to include PoC to simulate Stores transactions/connections using a robust framework for a single transaction.
• Provide recommendations related to Artemis MQ based on the observations/findings from Performance Test Results.
• Coordinate and work with the App Dev teams for Corporate Applications on the setup of their applications in the Load Testing Environments.
• Simulate Stores transactions/connections using a robust framework back and forth to Artemis + enable this as a very strong platform to test production like scenarios.
• Review the setup of Online Apps Testing Strategy and provide feedback to the existing Online Performance Testing team.

Requirements

• Experience with Artemis MQ platform setup and configuration.
• Proven experience in fine tuning AMQ server configuration to handle high volume of data & large number of connections.
• Knowledge of AMQ Concentrator topology setup and ability to suggest alternative topologies that fit customer volumetric needs.
• Experience in analyzing Java/Spring Boot-based applications and suggesting configurations to handle higher transaction volumes.
• Consulting experience in the integration space to assess existing integration and AMQ landscape, identify critical flows, and recommend performance improvements.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with cloud integration and hybrid integration platforms.
• Familiarity with performance testing tools and methodologies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan