Offer summary

Qualifications:

15+ years of experience in Information Technology with a focus on solution architecture and software architecture., Strong foundation in cloud-native technologies, microservices, and DevOps practices., Experience in application modernization and rationalization, with a track record of transforming legacy systems., Proficiency in full-stack development and secure application design..

Key responsibilities:

Partner with business stakeholders to understand business drivers and strategies.

Design technical solutions using industry standards and best practices.

Analyze current technology environments to identify deficiencies and recommend improvements.

Build end-to-end solution plans and support integration design and execution.

Job description

Job Description – Solutions Architect (Technical)

The Solution Architect (Technical) must have a strong foundation in design, development, and implementation of cloud-native applications in a real-time enterprise environment. The ideal candidate will have a full-stack development background and be capable of designing multi-application cross-functional solutions. You will be comfortable delivering solution architecture in an Agile environment and will have experience with CI/CD. Additionally, you will exhibit being comfortable with domain-driven design and event-driven architecture as well as possess expertise in secure application design. As a Software & Solution Architect within this IT organization, you will be expected to deliver a mindset with a hunger to learn and apply new technologies.

Responsibilities:

· Partner with business stakeholders to confirm understanding of business drivers and strategy

· Leverage industry and organizational standards, patterns and best practices to design technical solutions of varying complexity

· Define the principles that guide technology decisions for the segment and use them to lead an application modernization and rationalization agenda

· Analyze the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and collaborate with the Enterprise Architecture from other lines of business and delivery teams to recommend solutions for improvement

· Rectify gaps and pain points within the current state by influencing the development, communication and implementation of the enterprise technology architecture.

· Build end-to-end solution plans in the form of roadmaps that define the future state solution, scope of solution initiatives, and solution delivery sequencing through architecture transition states

· Effectively leverage appropriate design trade offs and cost/benefit analysis during this process

· Support integration design, validation, test and execution

· Participate as a hands-on technical engineer for presales engagements

· Establish and foster strong relationships with a broad audience of customers, service providers, vendors, partners, peers and leadership

· Collaborates with cross functional peers to establish and maintain organizational best practices, processes and methodologies

· Remains current on emerging technologies and conducts independent research to support business needs and requirements

o 15+ Years of experience in Information Technology having developed and architected large applications and platforms with experience in solution architecture, software architecture, Cloud Native technologies, Microservices, Docker/Containers, DevOps and Agile development

· Skills:

o Experience leading architecture solutions that leveraging modern software engineering methodologies such as Event Driven Architecture, Object Oriented Programming, domain-driven design, microservice architecture, cloud native, service mesh and cloud design patterns both on-prem & in the cloud

o Track record of success with application modernization and rationalization

o Experience in performing technical assessment of current state of legacy systems

o Experience with transforming a legacy monolithic application to a microservice based application

o Track record of delivering applications on cloud-based infrastructure through various project delivery and development methodologies (e.g. Agile/SAFe, TDD etc.)

o Experience with DevOps mindset, architecture & toolset, automated deployment, continuous integration, and release engineering tools

o Experience with utilizing software development tools and best practices, i.e. Spring, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Jenkins, TDD, unit testing, code coverage, secure code analysis, source code management, etc.

o Strong understanding of microservice architecture, hands-on experience in developing and deploying microservices

o Experience with containerization & container orchestration

o Experience with log aggregation and analysis

o Experience with full stack development

o Experience with common open standards (REST, JSON, OAuth)

o Experience with IoT/telematics

o Experience with messaging architecture (MQ, Kafka)

o Expertise in resilient application design and secure coding practices

o Expertise in executing technical deep-dives on software design, code, and test artefacts

o Experience and deep understanding of logical and physical data modeling and relational database technologies

o Hands-on experience using JAVA, REST, microservices, and containers

o Knowledge of modern security technologies, compliance standards & processes