Software Architect

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company’s new website at:

It’s not just about your careeror your job title it’s about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to go into uncharted waters do things that haven’t been done to make yours and someone else's life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

Application Architect

Who will you be working with?

Wabtec’s Precision Dispatch System (PDS) is an advanced software solution that provides real-time train dispatching functions that direct and control the movement of trains over a railroad network. The legacy system is being converted from a monolithic implementation to a cloud native and horizontally scaling platform with high availability aspects. Here you’ll interact daily with the PDS conversion team including the overall systems architecture team, multiple development teams, Helpdesk and DevOps teams, and senior technical leadership across the program.

How will you make a difference?

What do we want to know about you?
- You must have:_
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, MIS, Engineering, or a closely related field of study
- Experience in architecture, software design and cloud technologies
- Experience in Java, J2EE
- Experience with Kafka
- Proven understanding of software and system level design patterns using Java and related software ecosystems
- Strong hands-on experience on Red Hat technologies such as Quarkus, JBoss, Red Hat SSO, RHEL Or Spring, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud Technologies and Keycloak, JWT, Open API, Swagger
- Experience in JPA, Hibernate and Schema evolution
- Experience and excellent understanding on Event Driven Architecture
- Advanced understanding of GitLab, SonarQube, Docker, Kubernetes, software design patterns for HA and versioned microservices
- We would love it if you had:_
- Hands on experience with Quarkus framework.
- Hands on experience with CockroachDB is a bonus.
- Good understanding of Avro and schema registry
- Experience Client side and Server-side load balancing, API Gateway.
- Ability to understand the technology stack and its impact on the final product. Capable of efficiently conducting customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborate on personas.
- Experience with Rally, Jira, or other defect/work tracking tools. Capable of generating Agile metrics reports (burn-up, burn-down, velocity, etc.) and interpreting the results for larger audiences.
- Superior knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle and strong collaboration history with Quality Engineering and Dev Ops teams.
- Strong problem-solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments to others. Ability to break down complex problems and estimate level of effort.
- Clear communication skills and a strong command of the English language.
- Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems
- Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts
- Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices

What will your typical day look like?
- Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Dispatch technical architecture including tool, shared libraries and runtime efficiency
- Mentor and teach the engineering teams on best practices
- Work hand in hand with the Development and DevOps team
- Drive delivery of configurable product architecture to solve common problems driving towards product architecture vision. Deliver framework components and design guidelines for services and library components.
- Demonstrate expert level skill in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity
- Engage frequently (80%) with the development team; facilitate discussions, provide clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; contributes to design activities and decisions
- Maintain overall industry knowledge and trends to show leadership to employee base and customers
- Provide accurate and timely status of Content plan and current execution status to Wabtec engineering leadership
- Demonstrate superior persuasion and influencing s