Software Solution Architect

Who we are...

Verra Mobility is a global leader in smart mobility. We develop technology-enabled solutions that help the world move safely and easily. We are fostering the development of safe cities, working with police departments and municipalities to install over 4,000 red-light, speed, and school bus stop arm safety cameras across North America. We are also creating smart roadways, serving the world's largest commercial fleets and rental car companies to manage tolling transactions and violations for over 8.5 million vehicles. And we are a leading provider of connected systems, processing nearly 165 million transactions each year across 50+ individual tolling authorities. 

Culture 

Verra Mobility Corporation is a rapidly-growing, entrepreneurial company that operates with a people-first philosophy and approach. The company lives by its core values—Do What’s Right, Lead with Grace, Win Together, and Own It—in everything it does for its customers and team members. The company seeks to grow aggressively, both organically and through acquisition, to continue to be the undisputed market leader with these five core competencies: bias for action, customer focus, teamwork, drive for results, and commitment to excellence.

Position Overview:

Verra Mobility is seeking a Solution Architect candidate to develop and implement systems architecture that will meet business needs. The solution architect’s responsibilities include gathering requirements, functional specifications, identify business challenges, assessing the current software systems in place in order to identify areas in need of improvement. The solution architect should identify new technology that align with the business goals and modernization of the design.

To be successful as a solution architect, you should be able to integrate any updated specifications and requirements into the systems architecture. An outstanding solution architect should be able to explain complex problems to management in layman’s terms.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Building and integrating information systems to meet the company’s needs.
• Assessing the systems architecture currently in place and working with technical staff to recommend solutions to improve it.
• Provide Tier 3 support on issues, including design change recommendations.
• Providing supervision and guidance to development teams.
• Continually researching current and emerging technologies and proposing changes where needed.
• Informing various stakeholders about any problems with the current technical solutions being implemented.
• Assessing the business impact that certain technical choices have.
• Providing updates to stakeholders on product development processes, costs, and budgets.
• Provide technical assistance by responding to inquiries regarding errors, problems, or technical questions; train end users and technical support staff as required.
• Convert user stories into application logic, reports, printed outputs, and interfaces with other systems.
• Develop detailed technical analysis and design specifications based on functional requirements.
• Collaborate with multiple development, design, and analyst teams to solve problems.
• Contribute in the implementation of improvements across organization product base.
• High energy, confident, ambitious, and self-motivated individual.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, software engineering, computer science, or related work experience.
• Minimum 10+ years of experience in solution design and 7+ years of  experience in solution development.
• Proven experience in engineering and software architecture design.
• In-depth understanding of coding languages (Java, JavaScript, .net, python).
• Sound knowledge of various operating systems and databases.
• Efficient communication skills.
• Strong organizational and leadership skills.
• Experience with AI/ML platforms and systems.
• Skills in cloud native technologies and best practices.
• Worked with CI/CD best practices.
• Experience with containerized environments and coding best practices.
• Background with enterprise level software development tools.
• Understanding of software development processes and methodologies including, Agile, Scrum, Test Driven Development, and Continuous Integration.
• Clear and effective communications skills both written and verbal.
• Familiarity with software development frameworks, such as Spring.
• Experience with Azure, Azure VMWare, and coding for Saas and Paas.
• Outside the box thinker.
• Successful completion of the Nlets fingerprinting background assessment