Solutions Architect

  • Plano, TX
  • Posted 17 hours ago | Updated 13 hours ago

Overview

On Site
Contract - W2
Contract - 27 day((s))

Skills

Scalability
IT Management
Organizational Architecture
Innovation
Documentation
Technical Writing
Specification Gathering
Systems Architecture
Regulatory Compliance
Solution Architecture
Stacks Blockchain
DevSecOps
Information Security
Amazon EC2
Amazon S3
Amazon RDS
Remote Desktop Services
Amazon SQS
API
Amazon DynamoDB
Orchestration
DevOps
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Jenkins
Git
Terraform
Computer Networking
Virtual Private Cloud
Virtual Private Network
Load Balancing
Dynatrace
Configuration Management
Ansible
Progress Chef
Puppet
Identity Management
Encryption
Software Design
Analytical Skill
Problem Solving
Conflict Resolution
Communication
Computer Science
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
Microservices
Docker
Cloud Computing
Automated Testing
Debugging
High Availability
Amazon Web Services
Kubernetes
Leadership
Presentations
Health Insurance
Insurance
Team Building
Collaboration
Wiki
Knowledge Base
Status Reports
Account Management
IT Consulting
Managed Services
Recruiting
Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
Enterprise Architecture
Training
FOCUS

Job Details

The Enterprise Domain Architecture team, focusing on delivering robust, secure, scalable, and maintainable to support business needs and competitive advantage in the marketplace, is looking for a seasoned solution architect. In this role, you will be responsible for designing solutions spanning applications, APIs, containerized services, and leveraging AWS services, with a key focus on driving reusable software components, and compliant with all standards, patterns, and frameworks. You will collaborate closely with product stakeholders, architects, and engineering teams to transform high-level architectural requirements into actionable, technical solutions.

What you'll be doing:
  • Architect and Design:
    • Develop and implement cloud-native architectures that are scalable, secure, and reliable using container technologies and orchestrate services on AWS infrastructure. Drive the use of container technologies and orchestrate services on AWS infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
  • Technical Leadership:
    • Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, ensuring all organizational architecture standards, patterns, frameworks, and industry best practices in architecture and design are followed.
  • Collaboration:
    • Partner with enterprise domain architects, product owners, and domain experts to turn high-level business needs into detailed, actionable technical specifications and implementation plans.
  • Innovation:
    • Stay up to date with the latest industry trends and technologies, continuously exploring new tools and methodologies to improve our solutions.
  • Documentation:
    • Create and maintain high-quality technical documentation that supports the development process, including architecture decision records, design specs, system architecture diagrams, and reusable patterns.
  • Solution Level Architecture Support:
    • Maintain an end-to-end domain-level architecture landscape, views logical, security, and deployment diagrams - current state and target state landscape views.
    • Develop and maintain OKR / Project level solution architecture and design - logical, security, and deployment arch views diagrams, low-level solution design, ensuring compliance with NFR and other solution patterns.
  • Solution Governance:
    • Presenting and obtaining approval on the solution design from governance bodies.
Requirements:
  • Experience:
    • Minimum of 5 years of experience in solution architecture, with a strong focus on cloud-native technologies and modern technology stacks.
  • Technical Expertise:
    • Proven experience designing & architecting enterprise-scale transactional systems following microservice, event-driven architecture style.
    • Sound understanding and working knowledge of InfoSec and DevSecOps principles using AWS technologies. (preferred) Should be able to understand basic concepts of infosec.
    • Proficiency in cloud platforms, particularly AWS (Amazon Web Services), including services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, CloudFormation, EKS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and other cloud-native technologies.
    • Expertise in containerization technologies such as Docker and Orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
    • Experience with microservices architecture and serverless computing.
    • Strong understanding of DevOps practices and tools, such as CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, Git, Harness, Artifactory, and Terraform.
    • Knowledge of networking concepts, including VPC, VPN, and load balancing.
    • Experience working with monitoring and logging tools such as DynaTrace, AWS CloudWatch, and Prometheus.
    • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.

Qualifications/ What you bring (Must Haves):
  • Security Knowledge: Must-Haves:
    • In-depth understanding of security principles and best practices, including identity and access management, encryption, and secure coding practices. Demonstrated ability to translate them into a secure solution design.
  • Problem-Solving Skills:
    • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a track record of designing and implementing complex technical solutions.
  • Independent Worker and Team Player:
    • Ability to work independently to drive complex technical projects to completion, as well as collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
  • Communication:
    • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Education:
    • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.

Added bonus if you have (Preferred):
  • Ability to code:
    • Hands-on coding with one or more languages: Java, JavaScript, Python, or C# (Java preferred). Expertise in developing and deploying applications using microservices architecture, container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud platforms (AWS preferred). Track record of including automated testing throughout the life cycle.
    • Experience implementing reusable software components and shared libraries for enterprise-wide use.
    • Independently troubleshoot, debug, and optimize code to ensure high availability and performance. Investigate and resolve complex software issues, providing support to the operations team.
  • Certification:
    • Relevant certifications, such as AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Kubernetes, etc., are highly desirable.
  • Experience working with Enterprise Architecture:
    • Experience working with enterprise architecture function in domain domain-aligned environment, working with domain leadership, and presenting in architecture governance forums.
Benefits:
  • 401(k).
  • Dental Insurance.
  • Health insurance.
  • Vision insurance.
  • We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity, equality, inclusion, and respect for people.
  • The salary will be determined based on several factors, including, but not limited to, location, relevant education, qualifications, experience, technical skills, and business needs.

Additional Responsibilities:
  • Participate in OP monthly team meetings and participate in team-building efforts.
  • Contribute to OP technical discussions, peer reviews, etc.
  • Contribute content and collaborate via the OP-Wiki/Knowledge Base.
  • Provide status reports to OP Account Management as requested.

About us:
OP is a technology consulting and solutions company, offering advisory and managed services, innovative platforms, and staffing solutions across a wide range of fields - including AI, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, and beyond. Our most valuable asset is our people: dynamic, creative thinkers who are passionate about doing quality work. As a member of the OP team, you will have access to industry-leading consulting practices, strategies & and technologies, innovative training & education. An ideal OP team member is a technology leader with a proven track record of technical excellence and a strong focus on process and methodology.
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