Contract Solutions Architect

Are you interested in creating a comprehensive architecture for a software solution and providing strategic direction throughout?  Are you ready to join a team of IT professionals that provide effective solutions to the business and work towards a common goal?  Then the Contract Solutions Architect may be the role for you!

Are you a fit?

The solutions architect will be responsible for analyzing business critical applications for our industrial customers, develop flow charts / ERDs and analyze the current and future integrations between multiple applications.  This individual will work closely with business partners, applications development team and IT to understand the requirements, create technical specifications and provide guidelines and recommendations to both technical and non-technical teams.  In addition, this individual has an in-depth understanding of databases / n-Tier architecture, RESTful / SOAP APIs / file transfer protocols and has a solid knowledge of Microsoft development platform such as C# / MSMQ etc.

What you will be responsible for:

• Provide technical leadership during design, development and implementation including the development of strategies to verify integration across multiple systems, mode of communication, data validation, resiliency, reliability, and scalability
• Coordinate with Business Analyst, Project Manager, and other key stakeholders.
• Review and understand our Salesforce, Oracle back-office solution (CCS) and internal industrial applications.
• Lead technology work-stream through the various life-cycle stages, from business need through design, delivery, and support
• Provide recommendations and best course of action in the following key areas…
  • Integration between Salesforce / CCS / Internal / other 3rd party applications with key emphasis on ensuring single source of truth, real time or near real time data synchronization and security.
  • Data atomicity, redundancy, scalability.
  • Scalable architecture with built in messaging / message queuing.
• Develop easy to understand flow diagrams / ERDs.
• Identify and manage risks, assumptions, dependencies, and escalation
• Communicate effectively with both business and technical teams and ensure architectural guidelines are being followed.
• Analyze business and system needs in terms of programming requirements and be able to provide accurate work estimates for planning purposes.
• Work directly with software development and infrastructure teams to set the architectural foundation for new projects which may involve writing the code framework

Other stuff we like:

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, or a related field; a master's degree preferred.
• Hands-on experience designing and building scalable web applications, particularly building high frequency and low latency web applications with optimal memory management, performance, and scalability.
• Solid knowledge of SOA based design, architectural and integration patterns along with ORM frameworks such as Entity Framework, Microservices.
• Familiarity with design-patterns, ERDs, flow diagrams, data atomicity, redundancy.
• 10 + years’ experience in designing and implementing large and high-performance internet-facing web applications in .NET, MVC, ASP.NET, WCF and C#
• Databases (Microsoft SQL, Oracle) experience and solid understanding of relational database models.
• Understanding of modern front-end JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, React, Vue etc.
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Proficiency in Azure DevOps (Visual Studio) is a plus.