Digital Solutions Architect

Digital Solutions Architect
Pay is $60 per hour
6 Month Contract to Hire Position
Monday - Friday 8am-5pm
Client - Large Engineering Firm
US Citizens or Green Card Holders Only

Digital Solutions Architect - Virtual United States

The Digital Solutions Architect proactively and holistically leads and supports EA activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio of solutions. Solutions include projects, products, systems (including applications, technologies, processes, governance and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services.

He/she has a deep understanding of business goals, objective and business outcomes, business capabilities, value-streams, and business processes. The solution architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks related to support the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards. He or she creates deliverables for managing the organization's portfolio of "to be" and "as is" solutions including systems (applications, processes and information), shared infrastructure services, and shared application services and components to enable and drive targeted business outcomes.

Obtains guidance from Digital Enterprise Architects (EA) on standards, regulations, EA principles, and target-state blueprints applicable to their specific solution.
Designs architectures in compliance with standards, regulations, EA principles and target-state blueprints.
Leads detail design and implementation activities.
Creates technology roadmaps.
Establishes architectural & design principals.
Analyzes technology trends and disruptions and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, and vendor offerings to drive business outcomes.
Works closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
Implements the difficult parts of project or products.
Minimizes technical exposure, cost exposure, and risk on projects.
Guides and sometimes drives evaluation of third-party software solutions.
Plan and Manage the IT Portfolio

Leads analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
Develops and applies architectural standards and minimal viable architectures through the EA governance model, which is informed by the business strategy and corporate governance.
Facilitates a collaborative relationship across product owners and agile development teams.
Collaborates with agile teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market.
Collaborates with infrastructure and project teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.
Oversees EA implementation, continuous improvement and ongoing refinement activities.
Oversees the documentation of all architecture design and analysis work.
Skills:
Preferred Experience

-Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies and roadmaps.
-Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms and processing environments
-Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt
-Good understanding of strategic and new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models
-Recent development experience with Node.js, Java, or Python.
-Experience in Azure Cloud or AWS Cloud, Cloud Engineering, Cloud Architecture.
-Experience in architecting Cloud Native Applications, REST APIs,
-Awareness of Privacy regulations.
-Experience in implementing security concepts.
-Demonstrated ability to independently research technology.
-Experience analyzing and resolving systems and application issues.
-Experience evaluating risk against cost, scope, time, and available resources.
-Effective communication skills.
-Expertise in agile application development methodologies.
-Knowledge of various development languages, frameworks and database technologies.
-Knowledge of various aspects of architecture.
-Knowledge of different modeling languages like UML.
-Ability to translate business needs to technical requirements.
-Excellent analytical, planning, organizational technical and communication skills.
-Skilled at influencing, guiding and facilitating stakeholders and peers with decision making.
-Ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.
-Ability to propose and estimate the financial impact of solution architecture alternatives.
-Ability to work creatively and analytically to solve business problems and propose solutions.
-Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities technologies
-UML

Education:
Bachelors degree in computer science, information-technology, engineering, system analysis, mathematics or a related study, or equivalent experience
Minimum of five years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development

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