Lead Solutions Architect

Lead Solutions Architect Merrimack, NH 03054/ Smithfield, RI 02917/ Jersey City, NJ 07310 (Hybrid 2 alternate weeks per month) 7 Months

*PROJECT OVERVIEW*

• Modernization effort with third party vendor to migrate to cloud and stand up infrastructure (order entry, accounts, etc.)

*REQUIRED SKILLS*

• They must come from a development background since they are responsible for standing up the infrastructure. They will be the doers they will work with the vendors and Product Owners and will be tasked with getting it done.
• AWS

The Role: The Solution Architect will play a hands-on role in driving the overall technical architecture and will be responsible for the end-to-end solution architecture, focusing on a distinctive modernization effort. They will collaborate with vendors and Business/Product Sponsors to drive and deliver digital modernization initiatives.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring:

• 10+ years of industry experience in architecture, analytics, design, and development of enterprise solutions in multiple technology platforms, frameworks, and languages.
• Ability to provide technical leadership, prepare design artifacts, and implement solutions for agile teams. You will drive the end-to-end solutions architecture design and ownership and articulate the design to the product owners, agile teams, and architecture leadership.
• Ability to engage with multiple squads to deliver architecture artifacts, drive issue resolution, wellness plans, and product roadmaps.
• Ability to analyze business direction, understand the long-term vision, and quantify the risk/benefits in developing strategic technical solutions. Collaborate closely with the product owners and squads in technology evaluation, selection, recommendation, and configuration.
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with product owners, architects, and technical leads for individual products and applications. Partner with peer architects to find opportunities to refactor business processes, improve customer experience or perform capability rationalization.
• Demonstrated and extensive knowledge of APIs, UIs, infrastructure, data architecture, security, and new technologies.
• Demonstrated expert understanding of the agile development process and DevOps practices.
• Demonstrated software development experience with expertise in client-side technologies (Angular/React, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS) and strong experience using Java, Java EE/Jakarta EE, Spring Framework/Spring Boot, and web application technologies.
• Demonstrated expert in cloud technologies and practices, building and deploying applications using either AWS or Azure or both. Cloud certification preferred.
• Proven experience developing systems based on patterns of microservices
• Ability to work both independently and with all levels of the organization, including technical and non-technical team members.
• Passion for technology, not limiting yourself to a set of languages or frameworks.
• Track record of critical thinking and translating business needs into technology solutions.
• Strong presentation skills; written and verbal communication including the ability to influence.