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Job Description: Lead complex technical architecture discussions and design exercises to create solutions designed to drive innovation while ensuring solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud and other platforms
Make recommendations on integration strategies, architectures, platforms and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution providing best practice advice to customers to optimize product effectiveness
Build a trusted advisory relationship with strategic customers across the business and engage with Architects and senior management to identify customer priorities, technical objections and design strategies encompassing the entire ecosystem to deliver business value
Perform market research on best-of-breed technologies and lead the engineering team to develop successful proof-of-concepts to test and learn new capabilities
Lead discussions with business partners to clearly understand opportunities and identify innovative ways to leverage technology to solve complex business issues
Design, develop and enhance technical architecture patterns and frameworks for others to leverage across the enterprise
Work with customers, stakeholders, product managers, and product owners to understand and maintain a high-level understanding of the current and upcoming requirements for the system
Understand and communicate the nonfunctional requirements for the system
Evaluate design alternatives, and perform cost benefit analysis
Develop and maintain whatever models and documentation are necessary to describe how the system does what it is intended to do, including recommended domain and user case models
Define and split large architectural objectives into smaller incremental objectives
Present the technological vision of the solution during planning, provide domain models and exemplary use cases that describe larger system behavior, and participate actively in interactively during the planning process
Champion change by serving as a resource to help teams make appropriate system and component level design decisions during implementation
Top level technical expert in one or more highly specialized phases of applications programming
Research, design, write, test and implement complex software applications and systems
Provide practical, actionable approaches to overcoming technical and procedural challenges in implementing strategy
Lead Architect governance
Champion change; drive and set technical direction affecting multiple groups/business units
Provide leadership by instructing, mentoring and training team members within and outside the work group
Work with other architects to establish common roadmaps in support of upcoming user and business needs
Interact with and influence senior management on technical matters requiring coordination between organizations
Provides technical consulting on complex projects
Required to perform duties outside of normal work hours based on business needs
Skills:
Hands-on experience in back-end services as a solutions architect using C#
Establish a roadmap for the next 2-3 years
Leading and coaching a team of 6 (informally); 4 Engineers, 2 UX Designers
50% Coaching / 50% Hands-on
Javascript
.NET/React
Cloud (highly preferred)
Experience with Terraform/Ansible
Experience with Microservices
Working with underwriters will be required but no previous underwriting experience is necessary
Education:
Bachelors or equivalent experienceRequired Skills: ANSIBLE; TERRAFORM; MICROSERVICES; C#; CLOUD; REACT; .NET; JAVASCRIPT; ROADMAPS. Don't hesitate! Submit your resume today. SMCI is an EEO employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, marital status, military, and veteran status. Members of minority groups, Vietnam Era Veterans and individuals with mental or physical disabilities are encouraged to contact us regarding employment opportunities. In addition, in order to support the provision of business to minority-owned and Women-owned businesses (MWBE), such MWBE are encouraged to contact us regarding subcontracting business opportunities with our firm. (No third parties, please)(H1 sponsorship currently unavailable)(Local candidates only, please)
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