Solutions Architect

Job Title Key Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:

Collaborates with the Enterprise Architect (EA), business and the project team to understand business requirements and strategies, ensures completeness of requirements and create suitable software architectures to support those needs

Works with Technical Leads to identify and mitigate architectural risks and issues across programs and projects.

Drives resolution of significant architectural issues and assists in escalation as needed.

Defines the structure of the system, its interfaces, and the principles that guide its organization, software design and implementation.

Ensures integration requirements & designs are supported by standard patterns and if required augments them when new patterns emerge

Provides guidance, training and mentoring to development teams on architecture and design across various domains.

Leverages existing capabilities and participates in the creation and augmentation of new and existing reusable service components and patterns.

Ensures that the solution architecture and design align with the Target Architecture for the project

Accountable to ensure the solution meets the functional and non-functional requirements approved by the business

Accountability for adherence to architecture standards and processes

Defines and supports reusable application components from a business and technology perspective

Contributor to application development principles and patterns

Partners with Enterprise, Application other Lead Architects in driving modular, services-oriented integration and solutions architectures.

Ensure Target Architectures are achievable (working with the Application Architect to address any concerns) and is accountable for ensuring that the Solution Architecture and Design can be implemented working along a sequence of events/steps in achieving the Target Architecture

Qualifications:

4-year degree (Computer Science, Information Systems, or relational functional field) and/or equivalent combination of education or work experience

10+ years of programming experience Java, J2EE, Spring boot and Web Services Technologies, SOAP and/or REST). Experience in Java 8 or 11, with Spring Webflux and Reactive is strongly preferred.

5+ years of hands-on experience with designing and building microservices using REST and GraphQL. Experience with API Management in public cloud is strongly preferred.

5+ years of hands-on experience in variety of database technologies, including No SQL (such as MongoDB, Cassandra) and RDBMS (such as ORACLE, SQL Server), including experience with DML, DDL and Query Optimization.

5+ years of experience with systems Integration including building event-based messaging, high-volume real time data streaming using Kafka, RabbitMQ, Spark and ETL integration

Hands on experience with technologies like Containers, Docker, Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure is strongly preferred

Hands on experience with In-Memory Datastore/Cache Experience (Redis or MemCache) is strongly preferred.

Significant experience with the full software development lifecycle and software development methodologies (Agile, Iterative).

Significant experience in capacity planning, systems performance analysis and optimization in a distributed client/server environment, and experience in building Resilient Active/Active strongly preferred.

Strong design and programming skills.

Strong understanding of patterns and best practices.

Strong ability to decompose a broad level business requirement into technical implementation.

Ability to mentor and guide development team members.

Strong organization skills with good interpersonal skills and a customer service-oriented attitude.

Strong understanding of web development.

Strong experience building consumer facing solutions

Strong experience building applications on the public cloud

Deep knowledge of scalability, security and maintainability of high-volume Internet applications

Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills

Ability to communicate and drive highly complex technology solutions to broad audiences within and outside of IT

Ability to define solutions from very high-level business ideas

Ability to describe non-functional requirements

Ability to work independently and also be highly collaborative across a virtual workforce.