Solution Architect
Remote
Contracted
Experienced
Job Title : Solution Architect
Location : Multiple Locations
Job Type : Contract/Fulltime W2 Only
Domain : Health Care
Responsibilities:
- Define the target state architecture for the scope of work, serving as a solution architect within the agile delivery team (product or platform)
- Create Architecture for a cloud platform and/or specific vendor/SaaS based applications.
- Develop understanding of current ecosystem to enable deployment of new applications or solutions in it
- Bring forward modern architectural patterns, leveraging open source, cloud and key strategic vendor /SAAS technologies.
- Create solutions are in alignment with Enterprise goals as established by Enterprise Architecture teams.
- Create stories and architecture reference artifacts to facilitate decisioning and direction of the target solution. Artifacts include, but not limited to solution presentations, component diagrams, sequence diagrams, non-functional requirements, and overall architecture roadmaps.
- Lead prototyping, discovery, and vendor evaluation activities to ensure solutions fit within overall enterprise context.
- Collaborate with the other architecture and engineering teams to optimize and reuse strategic solutions within the current landscape.
- Provide directional effort estimates/cost to ensure solution fits within overall business case and long-term financial plan.
- Define and mature the overall platform and product architectural landscape, continuously identify and defining what belongs as a platform feature and what belongs as a product/application only feature.
- Engage frequently in the execution of the Architecture Reviews and maintenance of the enterprise architecture repository.
- Maintain current knowledge of technology tools and techniques and mentor team members and provide active guidance/collaboration.
- Performs other duties related to architecture as assigned.
Qualification:
Minimum of 8+ years of related experience building and architecting complex applications and integrations
Minimum of 8+ years of related experience building and architecting complex applications and integrations
- Ability to communicate with technical and business teams.
- Minimum 4 years of hands-on experience with a major cloud vendor (AWS, Azure, or GCP), with Architect certification with one Cloud Vendor
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience leveraging modern technologies such as Serverless, low code tools and microservices to enable different solution architectures.
- Hands on experience building Microservice based architectures, leveraging API Gateways and/or Service Mesh, integration platform technologies to facilitate integration and orchestration.
- Hands on experience architecting solutions that involve SAAS applications such as Salesforce, SAP, MDM, domain specific solutions, and custom developed applications using containers and Kubernetes.
- Experience Architecting Solutions in 1 or more industry domains.
- Ability to bring forward new technologies and patterns to increase the speed of delivery on Solution architectures.
- Proficiency in agile methodology.
- Ability to work within a complex, dynamic environment involving multiple teams.
- Ability to produce different artifacts/ diagrams that can be consumed by infrastructure, network, security, application, and other enterprise teams.
- Ability to Solution architect across a variety of application problems / decisions such as connectivity, identity, authentication/authorization, user experience, front end, backend , data and analytics solutions
- Demonstrated ability to influence cross functionally in a matrix management environment.
- Must be able to facilitate meetings to resolve issues/problems with a win/win result.
- Demonstrated experience communicating complex architects and roadmaps to senior business leadership.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
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