A Solution Architect will:

●       Solution products/applications with a web-based systems architecture following microservices, event-driven enterprise application architecture patterns

●       Provide and communicate unified technical vision for software products and breaks down vision into tangible tasks for developers

●       Lead by demonstration of technical expertise (i.e. hands-on) across full technology stack (front-end, back-end, data modeling, 3rd party  integration)

●       Manage performance of offshore and onshore developers through effective task breakdown,  management, prioritization, and alignment of work to resource capabilities

●       Scale team productivity by decomposing user stories and features into individual units of work

●       Directly contribute with written code and provides code reviews to ensure adherence to solution design

●       Design solutions with appropriate data architecture, data modeling and data management considerations across relational, columnar and NoSQL

●       Design solutions with appropriate considerations for advanced predictive and prescriptive analytics

●       Participate in the cost estimation process by recommending the skills and numbers of developers required, and by performing effort estimation given product requirements

●       Coordinate with customer, product team disciplines (e.g. UX/UI, DevOps, QA) and other product-related teams to build, test, and deploy software products

●       Identify technical risks and and proactively address issues that may have an impact on service levels or schedules

●       Understand and apply agile software development techniques/methodologies to effect continuous quality improvement across people and processes

●       Maintain responsibility for the quality and viability of software engineering deliverables by providing recommendations on technical solutions including design, build/buy decisions, open-source tooling, etc.

●       Collaborate with Product Management, and other Tech Leads to define the design, development, and support toolsets and processes to improve the overall efficacy of product teams

●       Providing direction and guidance, hands-on development support, code review, development oversight, and support to successfully deliver on time with quality

●       Contributing to ongoing process and methodology improvements; and, establishing architecture governance with compliance of technology solutions with architectural patterns and standards. 

Minimum Year(s) of Experience: At least 7+ years of experience in software development  with at least 3+ years in application architecture and solution architecture, leading developers in delivery of software products. 

Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor’s Degree

Degree Preferred: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field

Knowledge Preferred

Demonstrates intimate knowledge and/or a proven record of success in modern software engineering approaches, technologies, and tools:

●       Cloud-ready architectures utilizing infrastructure and platform cloud services for Azure, AWS, or GCP;

●       Event-driven and microservices architectures;

●       Big Data / Analytics / AI tools;

●       DevOps - virtualization, automation, continuous integration;

●       Mobile/Web architecture stacks;

●       Polyglot Persistence - RDBMS/NoSQL data stores (SQLServer, Postgres, MongoDB, Couchbase) and appropriate use cases;

●       Rapid-prototyping workflows & development tools;

●       Core: Java, .NET, Python, NodeJS;

●       Languages: HTML/CSS, Javascript;

●       Frameworks/Libraries: Angular, React, D3;

●       Databases: NoSQL (mongo, neo4j, firebase), relational (mySQL, postgres);

●       Configuration Management (optional): Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform;

●       Messaging: Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, GraphQL; and,

●       Containers: Docker, Kubernetes.

Skills Preferred

Demonstrates intimate abilities and/or a proven record of success in technical lead roles involving the following areas:

●       Communicating, verbally and written, with both business and technical stakeholders to achieve product engineering objectives;

●       Leading across all aspects of a technology solution - integration, data, services, front-end, back-end, network, deployment, scaling, security, performance, development, etc.;

●       Managing rapid-prototyping efforts with new and emerging technologies leveraging agile development techniques;

●       Designing successful technical/integration architectures for large-scale platforms with a mix of 3rd party vendor, open-source, custom software, including the documentation of technical assumptions and decisions;

●       Contributing and managing incubators/innovation lab environments, and working with small teams across a variety of new and emerging technologies;

●       Working in an environment that leverages project management skills like planning and tracking, issue and risk management, multitasking, team organization, and activity prioritization; and,

●       Developing front-end, back-end, and/or systems administration applications with strong proficiency in at least one scripting language (Java, .NET, NodeJS, Python, etc.).

●       Provide solution hand-off and training for the new features to Operations and Production Support teams