IT Solution Architect
Remote
Full Time
Experienced
ExecRecruitment is a global professional services provider and contingency staffing company. Our main objective is to source top talent and support professional growth.
One of our direct clients is actively seeking a IT Solution Architect to join their team.
Job Title: IT Solution ArchitectLocation: Remote
Duration: 6 months+ extension
Duties:
The duties of a IT Solution Architect include, but are not limited to:
- Directs the identification and recommendation of appropriate solutions, upgrades, replacements, or decommissioning options incorporating business and technology productivity, usability, and total cost of ownership.
- Develops and executes solutions which further reduce the percentage of time spent on reactive work.
- Works with business and technology subject matter experts to derive end-to-end solutions that provide value to the enterprise and these solutions comply with standards and guidelines set forth by Enterprise Architecture.
- Interacts with business leadership to establish a solid working relationship between IT and operations.
- Must be able to model solutions from conceptual, logical, and physical perspectives (N+1 views)
- Creates artifacts that define the N+1 views of the end-to-end solution (context, data domain, logical, physical, and deployment).
- Facilitates the requirements refinement process; with special focus on service-level requirements.
- Collaborates with other parts of IT to ensure a thorough understanding of the proposed architecture; must be willing to accept and factor-in feedback.
- Participates in design reviews to ensure traceability of the design to the proposed solution architecture.
- Contributes to enterprise guidelines, standards and principles as precedents are discovered and adopted.
- Articulates architecture decisions behind the solution architecture.
- Takes initiative in working with business stakeholders to ensure their requirements (immediate and future) will be addressed by IT.
- Develops a thorough understanding of Academy’s policies, procedures, and safety rules.
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
Required Education, Experience, Certification/Licensure
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in solution architecture, systems design.
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on modern technologies and frameworks.
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure).
- Proficiency in modern programming languages and frameworks such as JavaScript (e.g., React, Node.js), C#, .NET.
- Experience with relational database (e.g., Microsoft SQL Server, Aurora) and NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB).
- Strong experience in designing and developing RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL APIs.
- Experience with microservices architecture.
- Understanding of application security principles and practices.
- Experience with agile methodologies and practices such as Scrum, Kanban
- Ability to provide technical leadership and mentorship.
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