Senior Data Solution Architect (Contractor) - Wavicle Data Solutions

WHAT YOU WILL GET TO DO

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into architecture design.
• Set up, lead and facilitate conversations to perform discovery of technology and challenges.
• Document identified gaps and present to key stakeholders.
• Determine what requirements are needed to solve the business outcome and resolve gaps.
• Store and distribute gap analysis and findings associated with a technical solution.
• Guide and mentor Solutions Architects in performing discovery activities and documenting findings.
• Articulate solution requirements within an architecture diagram that is delivered to the organization's enterprise architecture diagram standards.
• Take given requirements and document the business problem to solve and outcome to realize.
• Leverage a diagramming tool (i.e. Visio, Lucid) to compose a architecture diagram that complies to IT enterprise architecture standards.
• Derive within the architecture design the details around what falls into a business, data, network and security flows.
• Document and understand the disaster recovery requirements, including DR Tiers, Recovery Point Objectives, Recovery Time Objectives, Hosting Regions, Hosting Environments, and Hosting Strategy.
• Utilize advanced design methodologies and frameworks to address complex architectural changes.
• Present architecture designs to stakeholders for alignment and to the architecture review board for approval.
• Present the architecture design to IT and business stakeholders to align the business outcome and technical solution.
• Submit request (i.e. Jira) present to the architecture review board to gain cross-departmental approval of the technical solution.
• Genericize architecture designs to reference architecture and design patterns for continued reusability in enterprise architecture repository (i.e. Confluence and SharePoint).
• Present to the IT leadership team for any escalations.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to executive-level stakeholders.
• Stay close to the teams on an ongoing basis to iterate architecture designs to be current, minimizing drift.
• Attend ongoing team meetings to stay in the know of any architecture changes that are needed.
• Streamline architecture updates and iterate the changes through the architecture review process.
• Support strategic planning and to determine the technical roadmap for technology solutions.
• Lead the development and execution of long-term technical roadmaps.
• Model behaviors that support the company's common purpose; ensure guests and team members are supported at the highest level.
• Ensure all activities are in compliance with rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, or related field experience required.
• Proven experience of at least 5+ as a solutions architect or equivalent experience required.
• Required familiarity with design tools (e.g., Visio, Lucid, draw.io), Visio preferred.
• Proven experience in performing requirements discovery, gap analysis and presenting architectural designs.
• Effective communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms is required; AWS is required, Azure is preferred.
• Familiarity with integrations platforms is required; Mulesoft is strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with data platforms is preferred but not required; Databricks is strongly preferred.

• Technical capability – possess a strong understanding of technology and modern architecture concepts (e.g., serverless compute, service-oriented architecture, infrastructure elasticity and scalability).
• Problem solving – possess the ability to gather and articulate the business challenge to be solved, as well as the solution statement that supports solving it.
• Communication – drive proactive, interpersonal communication skills are a must have to be effective in the hybrid work culture.
• Projects Management – possess the ability to manage 3-5 ongoing architecture projects alongside any operational work required.
• Continuous Learning – keeping updated with the latest industry trends and technology advancements.
• Mentorship – work to deliver thought leadership to other architects and share lessons learned and improvement feedback.
• Required location: Knoxville, TN area and required to be onsite 3 days per week at client location.

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