Solutions Architect

Job Description:

• Design and lead the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities and business requirements.
• Manage and develop the architecture for a broader scope of projects, working closely with application architects that manage and design architecture for a single project or initiative.
• Provide consulting support to project teams to ensure the project is aligned with theoverall enterprise architecture.
• Lead and manage development team/s to ensure code quality and implementation is aligned to the designed technical solution
• Oversee code reviews and address technical concerns from engineers
• Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
• Understand, advocate and augment the principles of information technology strategies.
• Analyze the business-IT environment (run, grow and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement (systems of record, differentiation and innovation).
• Analyze the technology industry, competitors and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the enterprise.
• Define the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
• Design and direct the governance activities associated with ensuring solutions architecture assurance and compliance.
• Develop a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from future to current state (as defined by the solutions architecture).
• Facilitate the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
• Consult with application and infrastructure development projects to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture, and identify when it is necessary to modify projects to accommodate the solutions architecture.
• Identify the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures or culture) and financial impact of the solutions architecture.
• Document all solution architecture design and analysis work.
• Work closely with the program management office (PMO) or project management office to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised.

Qualifications:

• Knowledge on design patterns, enterprise integration patterns, cloud architecture, API creation and design
• Understands and can interpret reference architectures
• Critical thinking, big picture thinking, and can use different lenses to interpret technical and business requirements
• Professional experience with Node.js, flutter, kafka, AWS components