SOLUTION ARCHITECT [Job Code 2202104P]

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for the establishment of an IT Architecture practice, and the adoption of an architecture and standards methodology in the company’s Digital Delivery Service offering.
  • Manages activities that take place during solution ideation, solution design, and solution implementation.
  • Reviews business context for solutions as well as defining the vision and requirements for the solution, recommending potential options, (which may include RFIs, RFPs or prototype development), selecting the most optimal option, and the development of a roadmap for the selected solution.
  • Communicates the architecture to the stakeholders and collaborates and coordinates with existing domain architects in the formalization and adoption of IT standards and procedures.
  • Champions a structured approach to business application solutions.
  • Assures solutions not only are a fit for the specific purpose but also closely align with the standards guidelines of technology solutions.
  • Influences changes to standards when necessary.
  • Supports the architectural aspects of all application projects in peer IT portfolios.
  • Directs the identification and recommendation of appropriate solutions, upgrades, replacements, or decommissioning options incorporating business and technology productivity, usability, and total cost of ownership.
  • Develops and executes solutions which further reduce the percentage of time spent on reactive work.
  • Provides analysis of security protection technologies as necessary.
  • Delivers domain expertise for Company’s clients on assigned projects.
  • Wins new business by developing POC’s and Pilots and presenting solutions directly to clients.
  • Be potentially named to lead several, either local or offshore, Company’s customers
  • Work with the other Customer Engagement and Delivery matrix resources to ensure proper technical guidance, project management and functional support
  • Collaborate as needed with Product Management, Engineering, Sales Engineering, and Professional Services teams
  • Help clients troubleshoot the implementation of Company’s product within their systems
  • Identify, document, triage, and track issues to ensure resolution & Work with Product Management and Support as necessary when a scoped implementation or product feature cannot be implemented or does not meet the client’s needs
  • Apply industry/domain/technology expertise to client implementations
  • Must have prior experience in Agile delivery

Requirements:

  • Minimum of 10 – 12 years of experience related to IT Management or other information technology solutions architecture role
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate the complexities of technical programs
  • Proficiency with information technologies in a secure network environment
  • Effective interpersonal skills and collaborative management style to include teamwork and team building ability
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and time spent outside of comfort zone acquiring new skills
  • Flexible in a fast-paced dynamic environment with shifting roles and responsibilities
  • Technically creative and open-minded
  • Expertise in working with various Java EE technologies including Java Servlets, JSP, EJB, JMS, JNDI, JDBC and JPA.
  • Thorough understanding of Cybersecurity, Vulnerability and Penetration testing and remediation, Application security is required
  • Extensive experience in developing microservices using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Kafka and SpringDoc OpenAPI.
  • Experience in using DevOps tools such as BitBucket, JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube and Veracode.
  • Proficiency in DBMS including Oracle, DB2, MySQL, Postresql and MongoDB.
  • Experience in database design and writing DDL, DML queries is required
  • Hands-on experience in developing, configuring, and deploying applications to application servers eg. Weblogic, WebSphere, JBoss and Tomcat.
  • Knowledge of Unix flavours such as Linux, Solaris and AIX is necessary
  • Recent experience in SSO with OAuth2, OpenID Connect and JWT is a must
  • Experience in various web technologies including HTML, CSS, Javascript, Typescript, React.js, Redux, Webpack, Node.js is desirable
  • Exposure to multiple technologies, frameworks and tools – AWS Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, ElasticSearch and Kibana is advantageous.
  • Ability to work under indirect supervision

EA Licence No: 22C1055

EA Personnel Registration No: R2095104