Overview
On Site
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
No Travel Required
Skills
Solutions Architect with Mainframe Experience
Solutions Architect
Mainframe Experience
DevOps
API
Agile
Blueprint
Cloud Computing
Continuous Delivery
Job Details
Job Title:- Solutions Architect with Mainframe Experience
Chicago, IL
6- Months Contract
4 years of recent experience working with Mainframe within Solution Architecture
Job Descriptions: - This role requires collaborating with multiple stakeholders, including product management, UX design and engineering teams, to create systems that are scalable, extensible, performant and secure.
- Lead technical architecture initiatives for multiple value streams (e.g. Agile Release Trains), helping to ensure successful product deliveries.
- Identify opportunities to leverage common solutions for cross-cutting concerns.
- Oversee build vs buy evaluations.
- Partner with key stakeholders to establish and adopt architectural best practices, guidelines, and standards. Evangelize, mentor, and coach all on the same.
- Understand the product requirement and product vision, evaluate the high level technical feasibility, blocker or risks, lead the solution discussion, translate them into architecture solutions
- Communicate and present solution to business partners, leadership and engineering team on solution technical blueprint, collaborate to make successful product deliveries
- Define non-Functional Requirements (e.g. performance, availability and fail-over, scalability, security, etc.). Ensure that these are incorporated in the design and supported in the final product.
- Guide engineering and other stakeholders on architectural best practices and standards. Evangelize, mentor, and coach all on the same.
- Oversee the evolution of architectural roadmaps for your domain based on product requirements and long term vision. Balance various aspects like feature development, reducing technical debt and strategic architectural objectives.
- Collaborate with multiple Agile value stream execution teams in guiding large solutions across multiple planning/execution cycles.
- Evaluate new technologies and vendors. Guide POCs and discovery work as needed.
- Provide guidance, direction and mentorship to Architects/Sr. Architects and other collaborators.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of hands-on consumer facing enterprise level application development experience
- 4 years of recent experience working with Mainframe within Solution Architecture
- Of which, 6+ Years in architecture, including leading technical architecture initiatives for multiple value streams e.g. Agile Release Train
- Expert understanding of architectural methodologies and best practices.
- Experience and proficiency with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies.
- Significant experience in:
- Design of server applications, encompassing APIs and micro-services, containers, databases, cloud infrastructures, and cloud services
- Design and development of complex systems/user interfaces
- Distributed computing architectures, including race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency control
- Modern API patterns, including RESTful APIs.
- Recognized ability to explain highly complex technical architectures, designs and issues clearly and understandably to all constituents.
- Experience with Jenkins, CI/CD Pipeline, GIT and other DevOps principles.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, influencing, evangelization, negotiation, coaching, mentoring, and coalition-building skills. Ability to work with persons in all job functions (e.g. Product, UX, Developers, QA, DevOps).
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