Lead Solution Architect

Knowledge and Skills Requirements:

A Solution Architect:

o Has an expert understanding of solution architecture.

o Can adopt and relate new technologies to the set of problems we face at client while adhering to security and other Client standards

o Can communicate solutions, ideas, suggestions to a variety of (business) stakeholders effectively and comprehensibly

o Possesses strategic business acumen and understanding of organizational strategy

o 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

o Understanding of latest cloud computing and data technologies, business drivers, emerging computing trends, and deployment options.

o Expert 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)

o Able to navigate the Client organization to facilitate work beyond the immediate technical team

o Experience with Agile & DevSecOps methodologies;

o Excellent project management, collaboration, interpersonal and communication skills

o Broad understanding of Client Technology, including service offerings, technical standards and policies, technical and business strategies as well as organizational structure

o Strong collaborator – willingness to share ideas, documentation and leading practices

o Conceptual and analytical thinker – ability to extract, analyze, and document complex business and technical requirements/strategies

Job Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Engineering, Computer Science, IT, Mathematics, Economics

Experience:

• Minimum of 15+ years overall IT industry experience

• Minimum of 5+ 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 capability and proven ability to manage difficult stakeholders

• Experience supporting peer teams and their responsibilities; such as infrastructure, operations, engineering, info-security

Other Requirements

• As this is a role with global focus and responsibilities, you may be required to work outside of the normal working hours in your time zone to partner with other IT Services staff globally.

• This role may also include travel, both domestic and international.

Desired Qualifications

• Configuration management and automation tools such as Azure DevOps, Ansible, Puppet, Octopus, Chef, Salt, etc.

• Software development full lifecycle methodologies, patterns, frameworks, libraries and tools

• One or more programming and scripting languages such as JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash, SQL, .NET, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, PERL, C++, etc.

• Relational, graph and/or unstructured data technologies such as SQL Server, Azure SQL, Cosmos, Azure Data Lake, HD Insights, Hadoop, Neo4j etc.

• Data movement and transformation technologies such as Alteryx etc.

• Visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau

• Analytics tools including Azure Stream Analytics, SQL Analytics, Data Lake Analytics.

• AI and Machine Learning tools such as Azure Client etc.

• Delivery using common methodologies especially SAFe Agile but also Waterfall, Iterative etc.

• Certifications e.g. Microsoft, TOGAF, AWS Cloud Certified, Pivotal, CISSIP, Zachman, ITIL, Cisco, (ISC)2, CEH, SAFe, PMI, and SAP etc.

• Extensive experience in project and/or product management

• Experience in architecting mobile applications that are either independent applications or supplementary addons (to intranet or extranet)

• Experience in architecting Data Analytics solutions Job type: Contract Reference: 19-03181