As a Solutions Architecture Specialist in our Corporate IT department, I will be responsible for applying Information Technology best practices, principles, theories, and concepts for building software products and Enterprise solutions. Ability to develop solutions from ground-up by leveraging suitable modern technologies, and/or current reusable artifacts. Develop and implement systems architecture that will meet business needs. As a Technical Lead, my responsibilities include gathering requirements and functional specifications, assessing the current software systems in place in order to identify areas in need of improvement, and overseeing development teams. Regularly update the company on any developments in architecture projects.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Analyze current technologies used within the company and determine ways to improve
- Document and monitor requirements needed to institute proposed updates
- Work closely with Information Technology professionals within the company to ensure hardware is available for projects and working properly
- Propose and establish framework for necessary contributions from various departments
- Account for possible project challenges on constraints including, risks, time, resources and scope
- Work closely with project management teams to successfully monitor progress of initiatives
- Provide detailed specifications for proposed solutions
- Review proposed designs and technical solutions for suitability
- Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; and investigating problem areas.
- Recommend technical improvements to systems within processing environments as business or processing requirements change.
- Participate in change release planning discussions, scrum meetings, and key system workgroup meetings.
- End to end design and implementation of secure IT solutions on Cloud platforms like Azure and AWS using the latest technology stack
Qualifications:
- Minimum of five years of experience in at least two IT disciplines - technical architecture, application development (web, mobile, etc.), integration architecture
- Experience working on cloud infrastructure and cloud services preferred
- Current understanding of best practices regarding system security measures
- Experience in software engineering and design architecture
- Advanced understanding of business analysis techniques and processes
- Professional experience working with and analyzing computer hardware and software
- Industry experience in end-to-end solution design and development of Microservices, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and object-oriented programming (OOP) models
- Sound knowledge of various security models and best practices including but not limited to Application security, Authentication, Authorization, SSO, database level security, encryption schemes & standards
- Working knowledge of SQL and PostgreSQL databases
- Working knowledge of Azure Cloud Services. Working knowledge of design and securely deploying solutions using Azure Cloud services
- Working knowledge of networking, firewalls, load balancers etc.
- Experience with large-scale, high availability server architectures
- Experience in CI/CD pipeline to deploy applications, preferably in the cloud
- Extensive knowledge and experience working with operating systems
- Knowledge and skills in dimensional modeling highly desirable
- Excellent communication, facilitation and presentation skills.
- Strong team work and collaboration skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering preferred