Senior Solutions Architect

Location: US Remote EST/CST Preferred

We are seeking a Senior Solutions Architect who is ready to play a crucial role in designing, planning and executing our product modernization plans, going from a monolith desktop application to a SaaS-based cloud-native architecture leveraging microservices and hosted in AWS. We are embarking upon a lift and shift migration which will serve as the starting point for modernization and are looking for an experienced, skilled, and effective solution architect who can help us succeed. You will collaborate with stakeholders, peers, and cross-functional teams to ensure that our cloud-hosted products and services as well as the underlying infrastructure is scalable, secure, cost effective, and aligned with LBMH’s business objectives.

ECI’s home and building supply software suite (Spruce) is a fully integrated business management solution for small to medium sized businesses. It streamlines operations and drives growth. The software is cloud-based and completely integrated, from purchasing through to delivery.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and support target state architectures, reference architectures, and proofs of concept to guide the product development organization in achieving our modernization goals in AWS.
• Design services and solutions infrastructure in AWS using infrastructure as code with a strong emphasis on standardization and reusability.
• Lead and organize efforts on the architecture team to develop modernization plans, architectural runway, create proofs of concept, design cloud platform solutions, and answer key questions.
• Partner with engineering teams, product managers and the community of architects to identify patterns and platform enablers across the organization.
• Engage AWS enterprise support and account teams on AWS roadmap, feedback, technical, governance and architectural topics.
• Create presentations, white papers, training material, FAQs, etc. covering a wide range of AWS services, best practices, and solutions.
• Challenge existing architectures to improve security, cost, resiliency, performance and reliability.
• Participate in and contribute to architecture design reviews and communities of practice.
• Promote a culture of feedback loops, trust and partnership with our internal community.
• Promote a deeper understanding of the executing production architecture to address and optimize patterns, anti-patterns, and areas requiring agility for more rapid innovation.
• Promote strategic thought leadership in advancing product architecture tooling and operation models related to application portfolio modernization and tech debt that is visible and actioned.
• Ensure standards, principles, and tech stack are refreshed and effectively guide application modernization.
• Collaborate with architects, development, SRE, operations, and security teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of cloud solutions.
  
  

Skills Or Experience You Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field of study.
• Thorough understanding of AWS infrastructure and services including but not limited to EKS, ECS, EC2, EBS, S3, CloudWatch, Cloud Trail, API Gateway, ALB, Route 53, Transit Gateway, IAM, AWS Config, etc.
• Previous experience successfully modernizing a large-scale web-based software product using strangler pattern or similar approaches is a must!
• 8+ years software engineering experience with distributed applications in production environments.
• 5+ years of recent experience with .Net or .Net Core (C#)
• 5+ years’ experience architecting/developing/maintaining cloud solutions in virtualized environments.
• 5+ years experience with Python, Bash, PowerShell, GO or equivalent
• Advanced knowledge of the AWS services, with 3+ years’ experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS.
• 3+ years experience with building, orchestrating, and managing containerized workloads (AWS ECS/EKS, Docker, etc.)
• 3+ years with Azure DevOps, GitLab or equivalent
• Knowledge of configuring monitoring solutions and the creation of dashboards (DataDog, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry)
• Deep understanding of design patterns and modern software design principles.
• Extensive experience with Terraform and/or CloudFormation and management of all infrastructure or configuration through code (e.g. IaC).
• Experience with BDD, TDD and other agile/XP practices
• Experience conducting AWS Well-Architected reviews.
• Hands-on experience with microservices, strangler pattern, and serverless architectures
• Hands-on experience with TSQL and NoSQL Data stores.
• Proficient with Infrastructure as Code, Configuration as Code, GitOps, Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment (CI/CD) practices and tools (Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins, Atlantis, Ansible, Packer, Python, CloudFormation/Terraform, etc.).
  
  

Skills That Will Set You Apart

• AWS - Solutions Architect Certification
• Prior experience with Ansible, Chef, Puppet and/or other private cloud IaC tools.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Dev Ops
• Hands-on experience with Blazor and Webassembly.
• Hands-on experience with Data Dog or Coralogix.
• Hands-on experience with Istio, AppMesh, and/or similar service mesh architectures.
• Experience with AWS cost optimization.
• A background designing for and achieving compliance (ISO27001, SOC2, PCI)
  
  

Competencies

• A sense of urgency and a strong bias for action.
• Strong communication skills and a natural inclination to collaborate.
• Experience leading strong personalities by influence.
• Exhibits sound judgement and can make wise decisions despite ambiguity.