Azure Solutions Architect

Client: VDOT

Title: Solutions Architect – Azure/SaaS

Duration: 12+ Months

Location: Mechanicsville, VA (1 Day/Week onsite)

Job Responsibilities:

·        Create overall application and solution architectures, component designs, and systems integration and implementations for a particular business solution

·        Lead efforts in defining, documenting and estimating the following for enterprise applications.

·        Capture requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, hardware and operating system environment, on- prem, hybrid and cloud topologies, interfaces with other systems, internal and external checks and controls, system inputs and output

·        Collaborate with other IT staff to assess business needs and requirements and translate them into automated solutions

·        Produce relevant solution design artifacts including but not limited to technical estimates, conceptual, logical and physical system designs, sequence diagrams, and data models

·        Coordinate new system development to ensure it is consistent and well-integrated with existing application systems and COTS solutions

·        Analyze and estimate feasibility and compatibility with hardware and other programs; and will consult with clients to prototype, architect, and design applications to meet needs.

·        Collaborate with Business areas and cross- functional Enterprise Architects to fully understand business needs and provide strategic consultation

·        Partner with architects, other technical team members and to develop roadmaps and strategies to support agency KPIs

·        Design/Implement Enterprise Security/technology Patterns

·        Consult with teams as needed on initiatives and provide tactical direction as well as provide architecture considerations on legacy solutions

Qualifications:

·        Experience in enterprise-level application design and integration

·        Experience in Azure (cloud-native and hybrid architecture)

·        Experience in SaaS (Software as a Service) architecture

·        Experience with SAFe architecture and proven work experience with Agile/Scrum teams.

·        Proven experience in developing enterprise and solution level architectural designs.

·        Proven experience in overseeing the linking of cross-functional applications between disparate business units and systems.

·        Experience with business and technical requirements analysis, business process modeling/mapping, methodology development, and data mapping.

·        Knowledge of relational database design and management techniques.

·        Good project management skills and/or substantial exposure to project-based work structures, project lifecycle models, etc.

·        Strong knowledge of system and software quality assurance best practices and methodologies.

·        Competency with XML constructs and schemas.

·        Confidence and experience with API protocols and schemas such as SOAP and REST.

·        Excellent communication and documentation skills