Principal Solution Architect

A Principal Solution Architect is expected to perform the following duties:

• Lead cross-functional IT Architecture groups that develop solution strategies and review designs from an enterprise perspective.
• Serve as the lead architect on projects, vendor work, and similar efforts in complex technical areas or in domain leadership. This involves planning developing, maintaining, and reviewing application architecture.
• Serve throughout the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in a variety of architecture engagements including Agile and continuous delivery, proof-of-technology.
• Lead architectural design collaboration for work involving:
• System integration: Middleware, microservices, and streaming.
• Database design principles.
• Software development, particularly with current generation front-end and back-end languages.
• Cloud and infrastructure principles.
• Work with project teams (including users, developers, and vendors), to plan, coordinate, analyze, design, review, and implement application systems/enhancements.
• Select structural and behavioural elements and their interfaces that compose a solution. Perform composition of these structural and behavioural elements into larger subsystems. architectural documentation.
• Develop, specifications, and other documentation (key written project deliverable).

Hiring Requirements

• Bachelor s Degree and 10+ years of progressive experience in a combination of development, design, infrastructure/data center and/or related IT disciplines.
• If no degree, 12+ years of progressive experience as stated above.
• Experience developing IT solution strategy involving multiple business and IT stakeholders and their priorities.
• Must have at least 3 years of direct infrastructure, system, application and/or other solution architecture experience driving comprehensive end-to-end solutions.
• Experience must include 5+ years experience in at least two of the following (able to lead) and familiarity with most of the others (able to apply): Programming, database/analytics technologies and practices, integration/middleware, infrastructure/cloud, and security. Should include contemporary examples in each case (e.g., contemporary programming languages or databases).

Hiring Preferences

• Experience in multiple architecture disciplines is preferred.
• Some experience formally leading technical teams is preferred.
• Prefer candidates with knowledge and understanding of: Health insurance and plan administration and regulatory and legislative impact on health plans, specifically HIPAA requirements placed on cloud tenants.