Solution Architect

What will you do?     

• Build a technology vision and strategy for a solution or business domain. Using a holistic approach, conducts solution analysis, design, planning, and implementation for the successful development and execution of strategy. Act as the single point of contact (SPOC) between IT and the business for the solution.  
• Collaborate with technology and business stakeholders to develop a solution design for an assigned business capability.  
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering Managers and other Architects in shaping and aligning product roadmap and delivery of new features.  
• Present complex technical proposals to both technical and non-technical audiences.  
• Conduct POC as needed to evaluate new technologies and approaches.  
• Lead the development team during solution implementation, translating business requirements into technical language.  
• We need to effectively communicate with the Data Architect for table design. Additionally, we need to provide a contract for the data team to create the table design 
• Work across multiple projects with a variety of individuals and groups.  
• Promote re-use through inner sourcing opportunities.  
• Recognize industry technology trends and emerging technologies, understanding how they apply and drive adoption into organization.  
• Actively promote the mission of the company within the organization  
• Ability to collaborate effectively and follow up to ensure achievement of deadlines, outcomes, and results. 
• Demonstrate company core values of excellence, ownership, collaboration, and integrity. 
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills in a global organization 
• Strong collaborative approach to problem solving 

What are we looking for? 

• 5-7 years of solution architecture experience: creating solution architecture and high-level design documents, solution decomposition into domains, API design, creating epics and stories for developers, managing implementation team. Creating contract document for data team 
• Microservice design experience, including REST based microservice API. 
• Deep experience in AGILE/Lean development methodologies 
• Excellent knowledge and strong experience with AWS services. 
• Good knowledge of containerization tools and technologies (RedHat OpenShift Docker, Kubernetes) 
• Strong proficiency with Java and Java frameworks (e.g.: Spring, Springboot), SQL and NoSQL DBMS (e.g.: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB), procedural and object-oriented development 
• Strong proficiency in Kafka message queue 
• Good understanding of DevOps processes and CI/CD tools. 
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and project management skills