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TSR is a premier National U.S. Staffing company with over 50 years of staffing excellence. Our client, a Global Professional Service Firm, is hiring a:Solutions ArchitectLocation: Alpharetta - must be local to the areaLong Term ContractRole expectations:
- Provide architecture leadership & subject matter expertise to client engagements focusing on complex & innovative products and reusable assets
- Develop solution plans, prior to kicking off a project as part of a product life cycle, intended to support business investment decisions which means they must hold the appropriate balance between costs, risks and quality of the product
- Create innovative and practical designs that account for the end-to-end technical solution of a system, in line with the business strategy and objectives and within the context of clients technology environment.
- Work closely and continuously with the business/client to focus on meeting business/client requirements and incorporating broader aspects such as overall product costs/revenue, data privacy & sovereignty, business continuity, information security, integration with other systems, etc.
- Identify, define and implementing reusable assets and standards.
- The solution architect is also responsible for adherence to these standards and consumption of reusable assets across products and portfolios
- Ensure relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly across Technology programs/projects and products.
- Contribute to the development of architecture governance structures, methodologies and compliance activities
- Work with the vendors to assess vendor products, understand vendors delivery models and assist in implementing them.
- Ability to work across multiple projects with varied stakeholders.
- A Solution Architect sets architectural direction, builds consensus, mediates conflicts providing technical leadership and advisory services to the business. He/she anticipates needs and potential objections and helps to create an environment which solicits positive contributions from all participants: Solution and Technical Architects, engineering teams, product manager, project managers, product analysts, test and project teams, Information Security and Operations.
- Demonstrate excellent interpersonal communication and organizational skills that are required to operate as a leading member of global, distributed teams that deliver quality services and solutions.
- Cultivate lasting relationships across business, IT and vendors / industry analysts to maintain insight into the broader enterprise as well as industry trends.
- Recognizes industry technology trends and emerging technologies, understands how they apply at the firm and can drive their adoption into our organization.
- Evangelizes and encourages the importance of technical quality, emerging technologies, sharing & experimentation across the org through mentoring, hackathons, communities etc.
- Drives an ongoing communication plan to educate stakeholders on the purpose and benefits of solution architecture
- Guide others in resolving complex issues in solution architecture and solves complex, escalated aspects of a project
- Monitor the progress and the quality of the project and reviews and develops due diligence to confirm the developed solution complies with architectural design
- Advanced understanding of solution architecture.
- Ability to adopt and relate new technologies to the set of problems we face while adhering to security and other firm standards
- Ability to communicate solutions, ideas, suggestions to a variety of (business) stakeholders effectively and comprehensibly
- Strategic business acumen and understanding of organizational strategy
- Deep understanding of Application, Infrastructure and security architecture and non-functional aspects like Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Availability, all the so-called capabilities of a system
- Good understanding of latest cloud computing and data technologies, business drivers, emerging computing trends, and deployment options.
- Expert-level skills in defining, designing and developing distributed and scalable products and services, including reusable domain-specific microservices on multi-platform /hybrid clouds (such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Rackspace, VMware, or OpenStack)
- Ability to navigate the organization to facilitate work beyond the immediate technical team
- Experience with Agile & DevSecOps methodologies;
- Excellent project management, collaboration, interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong collaboration abilities willingness to share ideas, documentation and leading practices
- Conceptual and analytical skills ability to extract, analyze, and document complex business and technical requirements/strategies
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent in Engineering, Computer Science, IT, Mathematics, Economics
- A minimum of 10+ years overall IT industry experience
- A minimum of 3+ years in a solution or technical architect role using service and hosting solutions such as private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms
- Experience in architecting and designing technical solutions for Microsoft-centric solutions based on industry standards using (Azure) IaaS, PaaS and SaaS capabilities.
- Experience with any claims-based authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, JIT, and/or RBAC / Ping etc.
- Knowledge of cloud security controls including tenant isolation, encryption at rest, encryption in transit, key management, vulnerability assessments, application firewalls, SIEM, etc.
- Managed the end-to-end lifecycles of a project in solution architect capacity
- Experience with mission critical technology components with DR capabilities
- Experience with multi-geography, multi-tier service design and management
- Extensive experience in financial management, solution plan development and product cost estimation
- Solid business acumen, management and marketing communication skills
- Significant experience in presenting ideas, products, concept papers to varied audiences
- Experience coaching and mentoring others
- Leadership capabilities and proven ability to manage difficult stakeholders
- Experience supporting peer teams and their responsibilities; such as infrastructure, operations, engineering, info-security
- Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Azure DevOps, Ansible, Puppet, Octopus, Chef, Salt, etc.
- Experience with Software development full lifecycle methodologies, patterns, frameworks, libraries and tools
- Knowledge of one or more programming and scripting languages such as JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash, SQL, .NET, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, PERL, C, etc.
- Experience with relational, graph and/or unstructured data technologies such as SQL Server, Azure SQL, Cosmos, Azure Data Lake, HD Insights, Hadoop
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