Position: Enterprise Solutions Architect Location: Charlotte, NC Duration: 1+ year Job Description: This is an advanced technical position that requires a minimum of 10 or more years of years' experience in the design, architecture, and implementation of high-performance e-commerce and financial systems and services. This position will be responsible for conceptualizing and designing innovative end-to-end software architectures that enable critical strategic objectives. Designs produced must meet both business and non-functional requirements while aligning to standard reference architectures. The Work Itself
- Primary accountability for the position involves establishing and driving clear, effective, and innovative solution designs aligning reference architectures, blueprints, and business and IT strategies across the technology and enterprise landscape.
- Act as SME for project teams in the planning, design, and delivery of technology solutions
- In application architecture: design the inter- system/application structures, advise teams of Client's standard requirements, security standards, methodology and processes.
- In business architecture: define cross-business function processes, advise teams of consistent processes and common business functions.
- Serve as an esteemed technical mentor to architecture and software development colleagues.
- Provide cost effective solutions that enable the business and maximize flexibility to integrate with other systems.
- Participate in proof of concepts to support the development of architecture principles, styles, patterns and standards for systems across the business, translating corporate strategy into technical strategy.
- Lead cross-functional team to drive peer reviews, gain consensus, and finalize proposed solutions with all stakeholders.
- Communicate and validate architecture technical leadership, program management, business line leadership, and executive level stakeholders.
- Review legacy architecture, identify components strategically aligned for re-architecture, monitor technology usage for end-of-life cycle.
Skill/Experience/Education: Mandatory Skills:
- 7+ years of experience in solutions architect roles, with in-depth knowledge of standards and technologies in IT architecture and infrastructure including Information Security Policy and Procedures, and the software development process.
- Effective communicator with other senior leaders of IT on program strategies and plans and negotiate quality solutions.
- Expert knowledge of enterprise platforms, operating systems, and key business functions and processes
- Understanding of industry trends and new technologies and ability to apply trends to architectural needs.
- Ability to lead or interact with and provide architectural design guidance to project teams made up of employee, business partner, and/or supplier resources.
- A minimum of two years experience driving microservices based, Event Driven applications.
- Demonstrated experience developing high performance applications relying on RDBMS and NoSQL technologies.
- Demonstrated experience with React/AngularJS.
Desired Skills:
- Experience with cloud migrations, particularly with AWS; related certifications a plus
- Containerization experience with any of the following: Docker, Kubernetes, Open Shift, Oracle, etc.
- Experience with professional grade architecture modeling and/or landscaping tools (e.g., BizzDesign, Archi)
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or other relevant field of study