Azure Solutions Architect

Description

Partner with development, product management, architecture, information security and infrastructure teams to deliver software and technology products that meet requirements and produce desired business outcomes. Adhere to established architectural principles and associated processes for adopting new technology or integrating with a new third-party solution. Advise product management on technology specific aspects of product roadmap development and recommend adoption of emerging technology appropriate to stated goals. Demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.

Responsibilities

• Develop the overall software & deployment architecture of application solutions across teams
• Partner with engineering staff to deliver solutions
• Partner with 3rd party vendors to integrate capabilities as required by the solution under development
• Partner with Senior Solutions Architects during large, cross-functional project discovery to develop high level architecture and design
• Lead architectural design reviews as required
• Draft, review and maintain architectural diagrams, interface specifications and other architectural artifacts as required by the delivery teams to clearly communicate the needs of the solution under development
• Interact with/present to engineering and product management with the presence to influence and drive the decision makers to a solution
• Identify technology overlaps and gaps and inform Senior Solutions Architecture staff
• Assess emerging technologies and make appropriate recommendations based on business needs
• Mentor engineering team members in software development and architectural principles, patterns, processes and practices
• Promote the capture and reuse of intellectual capital, including code objects and components
• Contribute to Solutions Architecture Community of Practice