Solution Architect (Closed)

SkillStorm is seeking a Solution Architect for our client in Pennington, NJ OR Charlotte, NC OR Jacksonville, FL OR Richardson, TX. Candidates must be able to work on SkillStorm's W2; not a C2C position. EOE, including disability/vets.

Job Description:

• The EAE (Enterprise Architecture & Engineering) organization provides enterprise technical standards and common technical services, platforms, and tools that are leveraged by delivery teams across all Client lines of business. The EAE Solution Architecture team leads the solution design of those common services, platforms, and tools within our portfolio. With a strong sense of ownership for both personal deliverables and value stream goals, we perform role functions including:
• Creating technical designs for architecturally significant EAE portfolio business and technical change
• Collaborating with delivery teams on implementation according to design, standards, and best practices
• Evaluating vendor and in house solutions against architecture standards and technical requirements
• Managing value stream architecture runway and technical debt backlog with input from key stakeholders e.g. Product Manager/Owner, Feature Lead, Infrastructure, Info Security
• Collaborating with peer Solution Architects and Enterprise Architects on cohesive and consistent architecture approaches and best practices

Required Skills:

• Broad and deep experience designing solutions across varied software development platforms and environments including Linux, Windows, Java, .Net, Python, Javascript, vendor packages, Tomcat/JBoss, data & analytics, etc.
• Design and/or development experience with complex, integrated, high volume applications for resiliency and performance leveraging both application (e.g. caching, replication) and infrastructure components (e.g. load balancers, clustering)
• Knowledge of security aspects of integrated system design and associated protocols e.g. AAA, token based auth, encryption
• Ability and desire to perform hands on POC work to comprehensively assess applicability and impact of technology and patterns to our solution designs
• Strong, independent, ownership focused technical leader requiring minimal oversight including the ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines
• Ability to provide clear, concise technical guidance to the delivery partners along (e.g. developers, engineers) with comprehensive status communication to program management (e.g. product owners, scrum masters)
• Process expertise across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) i.e. requirements definition, build, test, deploy, release, operate

Desired Skills:

• Technical expertise with DevOps automation and enablement technologies including Jenkins, Ansible/Tower, Jira, Git/Bitbucket, Artifactory, SonarQube, etc.
• Production level experience with microservices/SOA enabling tools e.g. API Management, Kubernetes/Docker, service gateway/meshes, Swagger
• Experience with agile methodologies, routines, and tools
• Technical experience with web application UI frameworks e.g. Angular, React
• Hands on data modeling and system design experience for both relational & NOSQL databases (e.g. Oracle, SQL Server, Redis, Mongo) along with batch and streaming analytics tooling (e.g. Hadoop, Spark, Kafka)

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