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Fresche Solutions

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201 - 500 employees

💼 Consulting

💰 Debt Financing on 2018-05

Consulting

Fresche Solutions is an IT consulting and development company specializing in strategy, design, development, modernization, and transformation of business-critical systems. The company focuses on bridging the gap between legacy systems and modern technology, offering services like application design, modernization, and managed services. Fresche has collaborated with notable clients such as Adidas and Volvo, helping them enhance their digital capabilities and competitiveness in the evolving digital landscape.

📋 Description

• Own the technical solution throughout the full project lifecycle • Assess and optimize application and system performance across Java, IBM i/AS400, and DB2 environments • Analyze performance bottlenecks across application, database, operating-system, and infrastructure layers • Recommend and implement strategies to improve responsiveness, throughput, resource utilization, scalability, and stability • Review Java application behavior, including memory utilization, garbage collection, threading, connection management, and application-server performance • Evaluate IBM i system performance, workload management, job activity, CPU and memory consumption, subsystem configuration, and resource utilization • Assess DB2 performance, including query execution, indexing, access paths, SQL efficiency, locking, database configuration, and workload behavior • Research technical options to inform solution architecture and modernization strategies • Architect solutions spanning Java, PHP, IBM i, DB2, and other relevant technologies • Translate business and technical requirements into scalable, maintainable, and supportable solution designs • Lead technical discovery sessions, architecture workshops, and solution-design discussions • Present, explain, and defend architectural recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Produce architecture documentation, technical specifications, diagrams, recommendations, and implementation roadmaps • Collaborate with development, infrastructure, database, delivery, and client teams • Champion architecture standards, development tools, performance-monitoring tools, and delivery best practices • Serve as a senior technical escalation point during discovery, development, testing, deployment, and production support • Balance modernization objectives with complex legacy and mission-critical environments

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field • 12+ years of hands-on experience designing and architecting large-scale, web-based enterprise systems • Demonstrated experience as a Solution Architect, Technical Architect, or senior application architect • Expert-level web application development experience using Java, PHP, or comparable enterprise application platforms • Strong experience diagnosing and resolving complex application and system performance issues • Hands-on knowledge of Java performance optimization, including JVM behavior, memory management, garbage collection, threading, application servers, and application profiling • Experience assessing performance within IBM i, iSeries, or AS400 environments • Strong understanding of DB2 performance optimization, including SQL tuning, indexing, query plans, access paths, locking, and database workload analysis • Ability to investigate performance issues across application code, database, operating system, middleware, and infrastructure • Experience designing solutions for complex, integrated, and business-critical application environments • Strong technical documentation, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills • Ability to communicate and defend technical decisions with clients, development teams, and senior stakeholders • Ability to manage competing priorities and provide architectural leadership across multiple projects simultaneously • Preferred: experience with RPG applications and IBM i modernization initiatives • Preferred: experience modernizing or integrating legacy IBM i applications with Java, PHP, APIs, web applications, or cloud-based platforms • Preferred: familiarity with IBM i performance-monitoring and diagnostic tools • Preferred: experience with application profiling, database monitoring, capacity planning, and performance-testing tools • Preferred: knowledge of cloud, hybrid-cloud, containerized, or distributed application architectures • Preferred: experience in consulting, professional services, or client-facing delivery environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible hours • Remote work from anywhere in North America • Option to work from one of the company's offices • Permanent, full-time employment opportunity • Diverse and inclusive workplace • Opportunity to work on complex digital transformation initiatives • An experienced contractor may be considered for an initial one-year engagement