Solution Architect

Description

• Set and maintain the strategic direction and roadmap for various technologies and solutions.
• Work closely with architects, product owners, and domain experts to build the reference architectures.
• Oversee implementation/adaptation to ensure adherence to architectural standards.

Responsibilities

• • Define the strategy and technology roadmaps for multiple product families and domains.
• • Creating recommendation trees for the usage of architectures like Microservices, Domain Driven Designs, Event-Based Architectures, Serverless, and More.
• • Creating recommendation trees for the usage of technologies like Kong, Kafka, SNS, SQS, Dynamo DB, Aurora DB, S3, Redshift, Glue, ECS, Lambda, Splunk, CloudWatch, and More.
• • Leading Architecture boards to review, and govern solutions/technologies.
• • Assists in defining applications' current state, identifying gaps to meet divisional/organizational requirements/goals, and developing a strategy to bridge the gap.
• • Creating application and platform standards, guidelines, best practices, and governance. Monitors implementation activity to ensure architecture and design principles are upheld.
• • Identifying cross-cutting concerns and creating Design patterns/Shared Libraries.
• • Teaming with other IT departments to explore new technologies and their rollouts.
• • Assist in building out exemplars/POCs.
• • Mentor/Train senior developers/technical leads and foster the development of others.

Educational Requirements

• • Minimum of 10 years of related work experience, with at least three years of technical architect experience.
• • Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
• • Strong knowledge and application of micro-service design principles and best practices: distributed systems, bounded contexts, service-to-service integration patterns, and resiliency.
• • Experience with AWS services such as ECS, EKS, DynamoDB, Aurora, S3, SNS, and SQS
• • Expert experience with Confluent Kafka with hands-on production experience and a deep understanding of the Kafka architecture an added advantage.

Experience Requirements

• Set and maintain the strategic direction and roadmap for various technologies and solutions. Work closely with architects, product owners, and domain experts to build the reference architectures.