Solutions Architect
Job Duties/Accountabilities:
- Suggest enhancements to existing to improve customer experience based on investigation into customer issues
- Analyze and evaluate business and technical requirements from RFP/BRD and architect and design the proposed technology solution
- Producing architectural documents that define, describe and specify solutions for committed projects using our core product as the foundational elements. Component diagrams and descriptions, sequence diagrams, and non-functional requirements are examples of the information expected in architectural documents.
- Responsible for delivering architecture material such as Software Architecture, Conceptual Architecture, Logical Architecture, System Architecture, Security Architecture etc.
- Work closely with development teams and external vendors, leading the creation of high-level designs that realize solutions
- Work closely with development managers and project managers to ensure successful delivery of solutions, focusing on ensuring that all committed customer requirements are met and are implemented according to high-level design
- Describe customer requirements and suggested enhancements to our core product teams to enable periodic integration of customer-specific solutions with the core products.
- Present the solution to delivery teams to ensure they understand the end-to-end solution and discover the feasibility of the solution
- Researching new technology and development approaches to remain abreast of current and emerging technologies
- All other duties as assigned
Critical Qualifications/Competencies:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline
- Experience in Solution Architecture, Design and Delivery of large scale deployments
- Experience software development. (Kotlin, Java, Swift, C#, Gitlab, Maven/ANT, Veracode, Nexus, Sonarqube, Selenium, Cucumber, JUnit)
- Experience scripting in infrastructure automation tool and supporting code deployment (Terraform & Ansible, Chef, Juju, AWS CloudFormation)
- Exp. Container application design and implementation.
- Experience in AWS public cloud.
- Experience in writing unit and integration tests
- Demonstrate understanding of Native, Hybrid and Web mobile architectures
- Direct understanding of application lifecycle; SDLC and High availability and Sustained Resiliency
- Ability to consult and build CI/CD DevOps Pipelines (Gitlab CI)
- Demonstrate understanding of modern Web technologies, including widget development, mobile, and emerging digital platforms
- Operational experience, troubleshooting and support, Incident Management (Jira, Service Now)
- Ability to analyze, articulate and solve complex problems
- Advanced knowledge of Javascript, Web Services/Micro Services and the ability to propose alternative solutions and cost-benefit analysis based on these technologies
- Familiarity with each of the various UML forms and expertise in the development of use cases, class diagrams, and occasionally state diagrams.
- An excellent understanding of best practices across technologies (client/server-side, QA, deployment, project management etc.)
- Desire to work in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent communication skills are a must