Solutions Architect (Cloud / AI)

• Architectural/technical expertise with cloud especially GCP, Azure, AWS (native, cloud agnostic, container, etc offerings) and cloud/SAAS systems integration.

Experience designing REST APIs that facilitate a strong developer experience or simplify systems integration.

Experience designing systems that leverage Kafka for messaging/streaming.

Experience with RDBMS and/or NoSQL databases (i.e. MongoDB). Understands the benefits and trade-offs of both. Familiar with normalization and denormalization, sharding, and other data-centric patterns

Experience with the design and development of complex systems; employs a disciplined and rigorous approach

• Adept at requirements analysis, estimation, systems and application design, and testing
• Familiarity with popular Design Patterns.
• Excellent collaboration, influencing, and consensus-building skills. Ability to work with persons in all job functions (e.g. product, program, developers, etc).
• Excellent verbal and written communications
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision. Self-directed
• A great team player, with demonstrable experience delivering superior software products via Agile methodologies

Experience on an Agile team

Experience with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies such as Java, JavaScript, Node.js, messaging queuing infrastructures, as well as cloud and on-premise infrastructure and services

Experience with distributed computing architectures, including race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency control

• Meeting facilitation with stakeholders, partners and team
• A proven track record working as part of a team on large/complex systems

Experience with SAFe Software Development Principles

Experience with distributed caching solutions; understands the factors that enable effective caching

• Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps

Basic Solution Architect responsibilities

• Receive epic/feature assignments and general direction from train architect.
• Partner with Product Owner, BA and Development technical leads to refine/understand requirements.
• Partner with Solution Domain Lead architects (if necessary) to seek guidance or vet solutions impacting other domains.
• Collaborate with integration architect to deliver solution artifacts (sketch, ppt, etc.)
• Continuously attain and refine business and systems subject matter expertise.
• Leverage architecture patterns for the solution. Create them if covering new ground.
• Present solution sketches to various stakeholders (SS architect team, Infrastructure SMEs, business, etc.) for review and feedback