Senior Solution Architect

About Ensono
Ensono is an expert technology adviser and managed service provider. As a relentless ally, we accelerate clients’ digital transformation to achieve business outcomes that stand to last. Our dedicated team helps organizations optimize today’s systems across any hybrid environment with services such as consulting, mainframe and application modernization, public cloud migration and cloud-native development. With certified experts in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud and recognized as Microsoft Datacenter Transformation Partner of the Year, Ensono has over 3500+ associates globally and is headquartered in greater Chicago.

We care about your success, offering comprehensive strategic and managed services for mission-critical applications. Our Advisory and Consulting services can help upfront with an application strategy or find the right places for your applications – whether it’s public, multi or hybrid cloud, or mainframe. And because we span across all mission-critical platforms, we can meet you wherever you are in your digital transformation journey, with 24/7 support when you need it. We are your relentless ally, flexing with you when challenges emerge so you don’t feel stuck in place. With cross-platform certifications and decades of experience, our technology experts become an extension of your team so you’re continuously innovating – doing more with less while remaining secure. And that’s just the beginning.

About our team

As a member of the Automation Engineering team, you will work on producing mission-critical platforms, tools, and processes that will ensure the highest levels of availability and reliability of all our applications. We need creative and innovative problem solvers who can partner with our application development teams to make their services more useable. Our Automation Engineering team is furnished with a standout opportunity to build tools, frameworks, and cloud platforms that will support our company’s growth over the next decade. If you are a self-starter and jump on new ideas to make the platform more stable, secure and feature rich, this is your new career.

Description: A solution architect is in charge of leading the practice and introducing the overall technical vision for a particular solution.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing and implementing technology solutions that meet the unique needs of businesses/clients and organizations.
• Problem-solvers of the tech world and be able to mentor and guide the team for technical issues.
• Laying down the standard design architecture and ensure standards are followed
• Leverage their expertise in software development and system integration to create efficient and effective solutions for clients.
• Work closely with clients and stakeholders and translate their business requirements into technical specifications and design documents.
• Design the technical architecture of the solution such as the hardware, software, and network components that are resilient, cost-effective, high-performing, and secure.
• Evaluating various technology options including the latest technology trends to determine the best fit for the solution.
• Ensuring scalability and reliability so that the solution can meet the current and future needs of the organization.
• Creating a solution prototype
• Identifying and managing technical, security, and compliance risks to ensure the solution meets the organization's standards and requirements.
• Communicating with stakeholders including executives, project managers, platform team, development teams, to ensure everyone is aligned towards the common design and working towards implementing same.
• Providing post-implementation support and troubleshooting
• Having thought leadership for setting up foundational platform or design practices

Skills and Experience:

• 10+ years in Software Engineering
• Experience in integrating multiple systems (including Client systems) is a must
• Experience in Automation is a must
• Expertise in any scripting language (ansible, python, powershell, bash etc.)
• Expertise in writing database queries and software programming
• ServiceNow knowledge and integration experience is highly preferred
• Knowledge in IT infra and cloud is highly preferred e.g. Storage, Backup, virtualisation, databases, AWS, Azure etc.
• Experience in Business analysis, Dev Ops and Project and product management
• Bachelor/ master’s in engineering with computer science