Solutions Architect

<h2>Job Description:</h2><ul>
<li>Design and lead the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities and business requirements.</li>
<li>Manage and develop the architecture for a broader scope of projects, working closely with application architects that manage and design architecture for a single project or initiative.</li>
<li>Provide consulting support to project teams to ensure the project is aligned with theoverall enterprise architecture.</li>
<li>Lead and manage development team/s to ensure code quality and implementation is aligned to the designed technical solution</li>
<li>Oversee code reviews and address technical concerns from engineers</li>
<li>Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.</li>
<li>Understand, advocate and augment the principles of information technology strategies.</li>
<li>Analyze the business-IT environment (run, grow and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement (systems of record, differentiation and innovation).</li>
<li>Analyze the technology industry, competitors and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the enterprise.</li>
<li>Define the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.</li>
<li>Design and direct the governance activities associated with ensuring solutions architecture assurance and compliance.</li>
<li>Develop a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from future to current state (as defined by the solutions architecture).</li>
<li>Facilitate the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.</li>
<li>Consult with application and infrastructure development projects to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture, and identify when it is necessary to modify projects to accommodate the solutions architecture.</li>
<li>Identify the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures or culture) and financial impact of the solutions architecture.</li>
<li>Document all solution architecture design and analysis work.</li>
<li>Work closely with the program management office (PMO) or project management office to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised.</li>
</ul><h2>Requirements</h2><h2>Qualifications:</h2><ul>
<li><strong>Knowledge on design patterns, enterprise integration patterns, cloud architecture, API creation and design</strong></li>
<li>Understands and can interpret reference architectures</li>
<li>Critical thinking, big picture thinking, and can use different lenses to interpret technical and business requirements</li>
<li><strong>Professional experience with Node.js, flutter, kafka, AWS components</strong></li>
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