Solutions Architect

Job Description

• A Solutions Architect provides the experience and leadership to design the interactions between business processes and the technologies that enable those processes to function in today's data-driven age.
• This person focuses on establishing the best technology solution to meet a specific business need and works on medium complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across one or two technical and functional areas while guiding other architects in the definition, design, and project delivery of services in the workplace.
• A Solutions Architect also works directly with business representatives to understand the specific requirements that are driving the need for a solution to be designed.

• Development of architecture standards in the applications area
• Review and evaluation of proposed third-party and internally developed application architecture
• Review of existing applications for re-design
• Responsible for the development of the overall vision that underlies the proposed solution and transformation of that vision through execution into the solution
• Become involved with a project at the time of inception and participate in the business requirements gathering.
• Remain involved throughout the balance of the project.
• Provide solution architecture for application design and development.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field required.
• 5+ years in IT work experience, specifically in technical design, development, and implementation or support of business systems.
• 3+ years of experience with relational and non-relational Databases.
• Strong development experience in several programming languages.
• Experience in the analysis and decomposition of legacy applications.
• Familiarity with web development, specifically SOAP, RESTful, SAML, ADFS, or Shibboleth is desirable.
• Familiarity with cloud-based technologies: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) is desirable.
• Familiarity with IBM Mainframe, specifically JCL and ADABAS/Natural environments is a plus.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Experience working as part of a team ideally teams that have included designers, developers, and project management.