Solution Architect

02 Aug 2024

Vacancy expired!

Seeking Solutions Architect who will demonstrate competencies across four key dimensions: from Interpreting Business / Organization Needs, Assess Technology, Apply Technology and Provide Enterprise Guidance. Interview: SkypeLocation: Columbus, OHPosting: 688818Work: Remote Role and ExperienceInterpret Business / Organization Needs

  • Translates business and technical requirements into conceptual architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work
  • Works closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle
  • Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state), reviews and provides feedback on corresponding enterprise solution designs to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes
Assess Technology
  • Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements
  • Supports product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services, or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information
  • Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and their practical application to enable new and evolving business and operating models
  • Analyzes the technology industry, competitors, and market trends, and determines their potential implications for a given solution
  • Analyzes the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement
  • Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations
  • Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify solutions architecture design
Apply Technology
  • Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a solutions architecture using microservices architecture design principles across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards
  • Manages and develops the architecture for a broader scope of projects or products, working closely with application architects that manage and design architecture for a single project or product or initiative
  • Develops a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise solution portfolio from current to future state, as defined by the solutions architecture
  • Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes
  • Provides consulting support to application architects within agile teams to ensure the project or product is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture
Provide Enterprise Guidance
  • Provides deliverables like enterprise standards, reference models and guidelines to support architectural governance to assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate
  • Supports a community of practice (CoP), guiding and helping agile teams, product owners to align with the overall enterprise architecture governance and assurance
  • Designs and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring solutions architecture assurance and compliance
Skills
  • Knowledge of various backend development languages like C#, Go and Python
  • Knowledge of various database technologies like MySQL, MongoDB, SQL Server and Oracle
  • Knowledge of various frontend web development languages like JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
  • Knowledge of various aspects of a technology architecture like integration, network and security
  • Understanding and knowledge of Architecture Design Principles, Integration Frameworks and Patterns
  • Knowledge of microservices and cloud architecture
  • Knowledge of information principles and processes
  • Knowledge of financial models and budgeting
  • Understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and DevOps)
  • Understanding and knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
  • Knowledge of different modeling languages (such as UML and ArchiMate)
  • Understanding of IT standards and controls
  • Excellent understanding of application development methodologies and infrastructure and network architecture
  • Excellent analytical, planning, organizational and technical and skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Credentials and Experience
  • Minimum of five years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development
  • Minimum of two years Solutions Architecture experience that includes architecting Cloud Native applications and one-year Application Architecture experience.
  • Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms, and processing environments
  • Good understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models
  • Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt
  • Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies, and roadmaps
  • Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences
  • Experience in coaching and mentoring
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information technology, engineering, system analysis or a related discipline, or equivalent experience; Master’s degree preferred.
Competencies
  • Organizationally savvy, with the ability to navigate organizational politics.
  • Skilled at influencing, guiding and facilitating stakeholders and peers with decision making.
  • Ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences
  • Ability to understand the long-term and short-term perspectives of situations
  • Ability to translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirements
  • Ability to propose and estimate the financial impact of solution architecture alternatives
  • Ability to work creatively and analytically to solve business problems and propose innovative solutions and enable continuous improvement
  • Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies
  • Ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead cross-functional teams
  • Ability to work with developers in an outsourced environment

  • ID: #44538198
  • State: Ohio Columbus 43085 Columbus USA
  • City: Columbus
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2022-08-02
  • Deadline: 2022-09-30
  • Category: Et cetera