Job Description:
As a Solution Architect, you will be responsible for design and deliver solution Architectures for key global initiatives and also Expert on Azure Cloud and its various offerings like Iaas, Paas and Saas.
Essential Functions of the Job:
Architect and design solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements
Technically creative and open minded.
Create and review architecture and solution design artifacts
Evangelize re-use through implementation of shared assets
Enforce adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability design standards, etc.
Proactively provide guidance on engineering methodologies, standards and leading practices
Guidance of engineering staff and reviews of as-built configurations during construction phase
Provide insight and direction on roles and responsibilities required for solution operations
Identify, communicate and mitigate Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Decisions throughout full lifecycle
Analytical/Decision Making Responsibilities:
Considers the art of the possible, compares various architectural options based on feasibility and impact, and proposes actionable plans
Demonstrates strong analytical and technical problem-solving skills
Ability to analyze and operate at various levels of abstraction
Ability to balance what is strategically right with what is practically realistic
Knowledge and Skills Requirements:
Leadership skills be able to inspire others and persuade
Excellent technical architecture skills, enabling the creation of future-proof, complex global solutions
Deep Understanding of Solution Architecture disciplines, frameworks, and past track record of complex coding skills.
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.
Ability to rapidly gain knowledge of the organizational structure of the firm to facilitate work with groups outside of the immediate technical team.
Knowledge and experience in IT methodologies and life cycles that will be used.
Familiar with solution implementation/management, service/operations management, etc.
Maintains close awareness of new and emerging technologies and their potential application for service offerings and products.
Exposure to IOT Solutions will be an added value.
Supervision Responsibilities:
This will be a leadership position with one or more architects reporting to him/her from different locations.
Other Requirements:
Overtime and vacation scheduling are dependent upon team priorities and may change during the course of a year.
Position may be eligible for alternative work locations dependent upon team dynamics.
Excellent organizational, oral and written communication skills.
Position requires accurate and timely tracking of time spent working on projects
Required Qualifications
BE/MCA
Minimum of 10+ years overall IT industry experience
Minimum of 2+ years in the discipline of Solution 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 of the following: O365, Azure, Azure Stack, Azure AD
Experience with claims based authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, and RBAC
Knowledge of cloud security controls including tenant isolation, encryption at rest, encryption in transit, key management, vulnerability assessments, application firewalls, SIEM, etc.
Experience building and supporting mission critical technology components with DR capabilities
Experience with multi-tier system and service design and development for large enterprises
Extensive, real-world experience designing technology components for enterprise solutions and defining solution architectures and reference architectures with a focus on cloud technologies
Desired Qualifications
Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, DSC, Puppet, Chef, Salt, etc.
Experience with relational, graph and/or unstructured data technologies such as SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake, HD Insights, Hadoop, Cloudera, MongoDB, MySQL, Neo4j, Cassandra, Couchbase
Software development full lifecycle methodologies, patterns, frameworks, libraries and tools
Knowledge of programming and scripting languages such as JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash, SQL, .NET, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, PERL, C++, etc.
Experience with data ingestion technologies such as Aspera, MoveIT, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Pentaho, Alteryx
Experience with visualization tools such as Tableau, Spotfire, Power BI, D3, Scrapinghub
Experience with analytics tools including SPSS
Experience with machine learning tools such as Azure ML, IBM, AWS, etc.
Experience in distilling complex technical challenges to actionable decisions for stakeholders and guiding project teams by building consensus and mediating compromises when necessary.
Experience coordinating the intersection of complex system dependencies and interactions
Experience in solution delivery using common methodologies especially SAFe Agile but also Waterfall, Iterative etc.
Demonstrated knowledge of relevant industry trends and standards
Technical Requirements:
Exposure to infrastructure and application security technologies and approaches
Familiarity with requirements gathering techniques.
Certification Requirements (at least one):
Microsoft, TOGAF etc.
Qualifications
BE/MCA or Equivalnet
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