Job Description :
Role: Business Solutions Architect
Duration : 3-6 Months
Remote
Job Responsibilities:
Provide hands on leadership to technical staff analyzing company’s business processes, applications, architecture and infrastructure to identify pain points and make recommendations.
Analyze Systems across Business Processes, Use Cases, Application, Database, and Infrastructure. Document current state and build future state architectural roadmaps across all tiers
Identify opportunities to improve performance, stability, capacity, and resiliency of the applications, architecture, databases, processes, and infrastructure and identify associated costs and risks
Spearhead the development of work plan, process flows and diagrams necessary to assist the business case requirements gathering and successfully lead program-level business system analysis projects.
Provide detailed weekly status
Provide monthly executive summary
Lead in-depth technical discussions with clients and analyze architecture diagrams, documentation, code, and data.
Must be confident and comfortable with application, database, and infrastructure discussions including working knowledge of physical, virtual, and cloud deployment strategies
Develop artifacts representing current and future state system architecture, visualization, database, and application layers
Skills and Experience Required:
Experience with architecture frameworks and view based architecture (4+1 view models)
Expertise in Azure, Kubernetes, and Terraform (key technologies in this environment)
Experience with multi-region large scale cloud storage for high availability, multi-tenant web services applications
Strong software engineering background with one or more modern languages (Java, C++/C#, Python, VB, etc
Hands-on Microsoft .NET platform experience
Experience in both Windows and Linux/Unix environments – Expert level knowledge in at least one
Solid understanding of database architecture – Relational models, replication strategies, SQL with 1 or more major database platforms (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Postgres, MySQL)
Working knowledge of physical, virtual, and cloud deployment strategies
Knowledge and experience with N-Tiered architectures including middleware layers ESB’s, Web Services, and Messaging constructs
Knowledge of design pattern concepts and ability to apply design patterns
Experience with Agile/Scrum development and capable of providing technical leadership to an agile team.
Knowledge of DevOps concepts – ability to articulate, advocated and implement automation concepts for CI/CD and associated configuration management, automated deployment, and validation.
Experience working in heterogeneous environments (Windows .Net, Linux/Unix, As400, Mainframe)
Experience with capacity and performance analysis of complex systems
Knowledge of cloud based architectures, SaaS, PaaS including cloud migration
Strong communication skills – capable of working in client facing position and interacting directly with client technical staff. Must be able to independently produce technical documentation including architecture diagrams, detailed technical design, and associated presentation materials.