Solution Architect - The Brixton Group, Inc.
Charlotte, NC
About the Job
Duration: 6+ months (Contract-to-Hire)
Compensation: up to $105/hr (Converts up to $150k/year Base + Benefits)
Location: 2-3 days/week on-site in Waverly/Ballentyne area of Charlotte, NC
Selective is seeking a Solution Architect to support business objectives provide technical oversight to ensure that individual software projects adhere to the organization's business strategy, enterprise architecture, and application development methodologies. They will apply thought leadership in the areas of modernization, technology advancement, solution design and DevOps. They will be responsible for highly technical consulting and leadership for software design, best practices, and development technologies. They will also advise IT leadership on technical solutions and the technical talent of development teams.
Responsibilities:
Compensation: up to $105/hr (Converts up to $150k/year Base + Benefits)
Location: 2-3 days/week on-site in Waverly/Ballentyne area of Charlotte, NC
Selective is seeking a Solution Architect to support business objectives provide technical oversight to ensure that individual software projects adhere to the organization's business strategy, enterprise architecture, and application development methodologies. They will apply thought leadership in the areas of modernization, technology advancement, solution design and DevOps. They will be responsible for highly technical consulting and leadership for software design, best practices, and development technologies. They will also advise IT leadership on technical solutions and the technical talent of development teams.
Responsibilities:
- Under general supervision, designs application solutions and identifies design patterns with emphasis on reuse, scalability, performance, availability, and security. Maintains and publishes graphical design diagrams and relevant architecture artifacts.
- Understands the enterprise applications architecture design and development best practices. Applies these practices to application solutions and evangelizes them with development teams.
- Mentors staff in application architectures and standards. Acts as a strategic thinker, thought leader, internal consultant, advocate, mentor, and change agent for application architecture within development teams.
- Works closely with the Enterprise Architecture area on design methodologies, design reviews, defining best practices, and contributes to conventions and strategies. Receives technical mentoring from the enterprise architecture area on how to apply strategic thinking and plan for the future state.
- Works with delivery managers to balance rapid delivery of business solutions with sound technical solutions.
- Advises delivery team leadership on technical solutions and on development team member competencies, skills, and overall productive.
- Assists with the technical evaluation of packaged business solutions and designs any required custom system integrations. Serves as a technical lead on proof of concepts in the domain of expertise.
- Leads the technical evaluation of custom designed and developed business solutions. Understands and applies architecture guiding principles and patterns, identifies deviations, and proactively addresses gaps.
- Defines performance stress testing requirements and assists with performance analysis and recommendations. Works closely with the QA team on the coordination of stress testing requirements, findings, and recommended changes.
- Manages technology advancement of application dependent platforms, tools, and services.
- Identifies gaps and proposes application modernization opportunities and application lifecycle management efficiencies.
- Assists with tier 2 application production issues and challenging issues in any phase of the development lifecycle. Supports continuous improvement by identifying and proposing tuning opportunities.
- Acts in an architecture role supporting agile teams using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
- Understanding of application design methodologies and how to apply them to complex multi-tier systems.
- Knowledge of software development best practices as well as modern architectural design patterns in high volume transactional environments.
- Ability to adapt to rapidly changing technology, processes, business models and user behaviors.
- Solid architecture/object-oriented design and development experience.
- Experience with web application platforms and programming environments with strong knowledge of modern web technologies, patterns and practices.
- Experience with one or more major relational database platforms: SQL Server, Oracle, DB2.
- Experience acting as a technical lead through a development effort including collaboration with IT and business areas.
- Familiarity with Microsoft development technologies: .NET, .NET Core.
- Experience leading and influencing other technical leaders in the organization.
- Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication and the ability to communicate with audiences at varying technical levels.
- Experience collaborating with organizational leaders to build out multi-year technical visions.
- Any experience with Property & Casualty insurance is preferred.
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, or other related field, or equivalent work experience.
Source : The Brixton Group, Inc.