Solution Architect with Azure/AWS, Microservices and MongoDB skills
Required Skills:
- Significant experience with systems integration.
- Experience with the design and development of complex systems; employs a disciplined and rigorous approach
- Adept at requirements analysis, estimation, systems and application design, and testing
- Familiarity with popular Design Patterns.
- Excellent collaboration, influencing, and consensus-building skills. Ability to work with persons in all job functions (e.g. product, program, developers, etc).
- Excellent verbal and written communications
- Ability to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision. Self-directed
- A great team player, with demonstrable experience delivering superior software products via Agile methodologies
- Experience on an Agile team
- Experience with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies such as Java, JavaScript, Node.js, messaging queuing infrastructures, as well as cloud and on-premise infrastructure and services
- Experience with distributed computing architectures, including race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency control
- Meeting facilitation with stakeholders, partners and team
Desired Skills
- A proven track record working as part of a team on large/complex systems
- Architectural/technical experience with cloud native especially AWS and GCP and their cloud offerings.
- Experience with RDBMS and/or NoSQL databases (i.e. MongoDB). Understands the benefits and trade-offs of both. Familiar with normalization and denormalization, sharding, and other data-centric patterns
- Architectural/technical experience with Gen AI (RAG frameworks, Vector DB searches and embeddings, etc.) and/or Conversational AI (IBM WatsonX, Google Dialog Flow, etc.)
- Experience designing REST APIs that facilitate a strong developer experience or simplify systems integration.
- Experience with SAFe Software Development Principles
- Experience with distributed caching solutions; understands the factors that enable effective caching
- Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps
- Experience with Service Now or Salesforce for case management, workflow-based solutions.
Basic Solution Architect responsibilities
| Receive epic/feature assignments and general direction from train architect. |
| Partner with Product Owner, BA and Development technical leads to refine/understand requirements. |
| Partner with Solution Domain Lead architects (if necessary) to seek guidance or vet solutions impacting other domains. |
| Collaborate with integration architect to deliver solution artifacts (sketch, ppt, etc.) |
| Continuously attain and refine business and systems subject matter expertise. |
| Leverage architecture patterns for the solution. Create them if covering new ground. |
| Present solution sketches to various stakeholders (SS architect team, Infrastructure SMEs, business, etc.) for review and feedback. |
Primary technologies
- API-first centric enterprise
- AWS (digital experience/compute), GCP (big data), Azure cloud (compute),
- Salesforce Health Cloud/Service Cloud for user experience (GPS and ATLAS)
