**Candidates MUST be local to Cincinnati in order to be considered (hybrid in Blue Ash office 4 days/week)

6-month Contract TO HIRE- Candidates should be eligible to work for any employer in the United States WITHOUT needing Visa sponsorship

Requirements:

• Experience with Cloud/Azure implementations and architecture
• Experience working on point-of-sale, fuel, self-checkout, or payment systems.
• 3+ years of experience working on high volume, internet scale solutions
• Any experience developing and/or architecting public cloud-hosted backend services
• Experience developing a scalable microservices architecture
• Proven knowledge of technology to support omnichannel experiences
• Demonstrated written, oral and presentation/public speaking communication skills; demonstrated interpersonal skills with an ability to communicate/work effectively with diverse groups of people
• Proven delivery of innovative results in previous roles and strong knowledge of industry trends and industry competition
• Demonstrated capability to build, mentor and maintain an inclusive team-based environment
• Proven knowledge of service-oriented architecture/Cloud
• Experience with data privacy, encryptions, PCI compliance, etc.
• Emphasis on utilizing design patterns and architectural principles to ensure the timely delivery of quality solutions
• Experience with C4 Modeling using PlantUML (PUML)
• Experience using Draw.io and Structurizr.
• Experience with Jira & Confluence

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in the application technical design process
• Work with third-party providers on proper solution design and implementation
• Collaborating with internal teams, product, infrastructure, security, architects to align on solution integrations and direction
• Complete estimates and work plans as appropriate for design, development, implementation and rollout tasks
• Create technical system documentation and ensure that this documentation remains current throughout all phases of the SDLC
• Communicate timely status, including any potential risks/issues to the appropriate teams to ensure that assignment releases are managed appropriately and that completed assignments are of the highest quality
• Support and maintain applications utilizing required tools and technologies
• Build partnerships across the application, business and infrastructure teams