Solution Architect - Long Term Project - Carson City, NV from INSPYR Solutions

Solution Architect - Long Term Project - Carson City, NV

Title: Solution Architect
Location: Carson City, NV (3-4 days on site)
Duration: 18 month+ Contract
Compensation: $55.00 – $67.00/hour
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.

• Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
• Works closely with the Portfolio Leadership, Project teams, and IT Enterprise Architecure committee to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
• Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise solution designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.
• Provide input and guidance on individual and team weekly goals, monitor progress through a positive, collaborative and encouraging work environment.
• Example of potential deliverables provided while performing this role: requirements traceability document, business process/capability impact assessment and business process diagrams.

• Assess the current state of implemented services and solutions and identify any deficiencies, like the aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.
• Supports product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services, or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.
• Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and their practical application to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
• Analyzes the technology industry, competitors, and market trends, and determines their potential im plications for a given solution.
• Analyzes the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement within our Portfolio.
• Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
• Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify designs to accommodate the solution's architecture.
• Examples of potential deliverables provided while performing this role: Current state architecture documentation, vendor assessment for RFP, contribution to cost/benefit analysis, contributions to proof-of-concept implementation.

• Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a solution's architecture within our Client's Business License Management services or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.
• Manages and develops the architecture for a broader scope of projects or products, working closely with application, and system architects that manage and design architecture within our Business License Management services or other State agencies that interface with the Business Licensing services.
• Develops a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise solution portfolio from current to future state, as defined by the requirements of our Portfolio effort.
• Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes.
• Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects, and systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.
• Works closely with the Portfolio leadership team to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the program effort.
• Provides consulting support to application architects within the Client's IT teams to ensure the program is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture for the client's IT operation.
• Examples of potential deliverables provided while performing this role: Solution documentation, enterprise target state architecture and application/platform strategy design documentation.

• Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs t o support architectural governance to assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and the Client's IT environment.
• Supports a Community of Practice (CoP), guiding and helping Program and Project teams to align with the overall enterprise architecture governance and assurance.
• Designs and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring solution's architecture assurance and compliance.
• Defines the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
• Examples of potential deliverables provided while performing this role : solution scorecard and enterprise reference architecture components.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated Solution Architecture experience and verifiable business outcomes achieved for organizations where you have performed this role in your career.
• 3-5 years of Solution Architecture experience.
• Communicates clearly in English, both verbally and in writing, with project team members and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize and deliver requested deliverables on time.
• Intermediate level proficiency with Microsoft Office 365 including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Teams and Visio experience is a plus, but not required.

Our benefits package includes: (EXCLUDE on perm placements)
Comprehensive medical benefits
Competitive pay
401(k) retirement plan
…and much more!

About INSPYR Solutions

Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients’ business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.

INSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, INSPYR Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.