Application Architect-Costco Travel

Key Skills

HTML, Java Programming, AngularJS, Python Programming, SQL, XML-JSON

Job Description

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others. In 2018, Costco contributed over $39 million to organizations such as United Way and Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the second largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in twelve countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. As proof, Costco consistently ranks in the top five of Forbes “America’s Best Employers”.

In this role, you will rely heavily on your deep architecture knowledge to design and define the future direction of the software architecture, technical framework and software processes by anticipating needs and implementing solutions. This person participates in product designs across multiple teams and projects to help build architecturally stable and scalable solutions. You will work with the internal customers to design business unit applications and workflows often serving as a consultant to management and external spokesperson for the organization. You will also provide architectural input and maintain the stability of the overall platform by ensuring the appropriate design and development standards are used at all times.

If you want to be a part of one of the BEST “to work for” companies in the world, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

ROLE

• Responsible for software architecture including determination of current limitations and compatibilities between subsystems, selection of new concepts and methodology, and development of mission critical enhancements.
• Partners with business teams to gather and translate business functional requirements into technical solutions leveraging Costco Travel’s enterprise application framework.
• Exercises technical leadership throughout the development life cycle and focus on delivery of quality solutions.
• Partners and fosters collaboration with IT, business partners, and internal and external parties throughout the project.
• Gathers specifications from the business units and delivers architectural artifacts that meets the needs presented.

REQUIRED

• Excellent Object Oriented programming skills and design pattern knowledge.
• Extensive expertise with presentation layer technologies (JSP, React, Angular, Vue).
• Extensive expertise with design and development of client-server and/or web based applications.
• Excellent expertise with Java technologies and libraries, including but not limited to all of the following: Collections, I/O, Networking, Multi-Threading, Reflection and JDBC.
• Excellent expertise of relational database design and development.
• Broad expertise with data transmission/exchange standards like XML, JSON, X/HTML.
• Excellent troubleshooting and root cause analysis abilities.
• Communicate technical issues clearly in written and oral forms.
• Excellent mentoring abilities.
• Demonstrated ability to be a team player as well as an independent performer.
• Has the experience of translating, following and driving architectural decisions into project execution.

Recommended

• Bachelor's degree, or the equivalent, in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Required Documents

• Cover Letter
• Resume