Senior Solution Architect

Job Description

Brief Summary

We are seeking driven and innovative solutions architect to join our growing team and help generate solutions to address and meet various requirements and needs. In this role, you will work on a variety of projects and will play a key part in making sure that end results are designed according to the relevant patterns and analyses.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Design and implement solutions
• Comprehend business strategies and requirements and develop necessary designs and plans to ensure projects and solutions satisfy those needs
• Act as a contributing member of the project team from project inception to completion
• Actively listen to client problems and needs to implement that information when creating solution plans
• Provide advice and make decisions about which technologies would be suitable to use for various projects
• Consistently monitor the scope of projects
• Collaborate with project managers and other staff members to develop budgets and timelines for solutions
• Assess and evaluate risk as required
• Maintain understanding of how individual work and decisions fit into the broader organizational picture
• Keep skills updated and remain proactively aware of happenings and current events in the industry
• Mentor, educate, and train colleagues as requested

Requirements and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, software engineering, or related field
• Experience on hands-on development in NodeJS / Python / Ruby architecture and programming and some front-end Javascript framework in a development-intensive individual contributor role
• Has experience working with two or more of data related technologies and familiarity with others from various Relational databases, NoSQL databases, Caching systems, Full-Text Search engines, and/or Big Data systems.
• Has good experience with the TDD approach, doing unit testing, mocking, integration/UI testing, behavior driver testing, and writing unit test cases
• Has good experience working with, setting up and configuring any continuous integration and delivery systems, any code quality automation technologies
• Has experience with one or more cloud or devops services like AWS, Docker, and/or Digitalocean, etc
• Has experience with one or more front-end technologies including templating, CSS and JS frameworks
• 3+ years of work experience in a relevant role
• Proven history of generating innovative and effective solutions
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills to explain complex technical topics in an easily digestible manner
• Experience with database management and proper systems security best practices
• Willingness to work independently and as part of a team
• Previous project management experience is preferred