Solutions Architect (Cloud / AI)
Location: Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Duration: 6 months (onsite)
Visa Status: Only US Citizen or GC Visa consultants can Apply
Job Description:
Required Skills:
Architectural/technical expertise with cloud especially GCP, Azure, AWS (native, cloud agnostic, container, etc offerings) and cloud/SAAS systems integration.
Experience designing REST APIs that facilitate a strong developer experience or simplify systems integration.
Experience designing systems that leverage Kafka for messaging/streaming.
Experience with RDBMS and/or NoSQL databases (i.e. MongoDB). Understands the benefits and trade-offs of both. Familiar with normalization and denormalization, sharding, and other data-centric patterns
Experience with the design and development of complex systems; employs a disciplined and rigorous approach
Adept at requirements analysis, estimation, systems and application design, and testing
Familiarity with popular Design Patterns.
Excellent collaboration, influencing, and consensus-building skills. Ability to work with persons in all job functions (e.g. product, program, developers, etc).
Excellent verbal and written communications
Ability to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision. Self-directed
A great team player, with demonstrable experience delivering superior software products via Agile methodologies
Experience on an Agile team
Experience with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies such as Java, JavaScript, Node.js, messaging queuing infrastructures, as well as cloud and on-premise infrastructure and services
Experience with distributed computing architectures, including race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency control
Meeting facilitation with stakeholders, partners and team
A proven track record working as part of a team on large/complex systems
Experience with SAFe Software Development Principles
Experience with distributed caching solutions; understands the factors that enable effective caching
Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps
Basic Solution Architect responsibilities
Receive epic/feature assignments and general direction from train architect.
Partner with Product Owner, BA and Development technical leads to refine/understand requirements.
Partner with Solution Domain Lead architects (if necessary) to seek guidance or vet solutions impacting other domains.
Collaborate with integration architect to deliver solution artifacts (sketch, ppt, etc.)
Continuously attain and refine business and systems subject matter expertise.
Leverage architecture patterns for the solution. Create them if covering new ground.
Present solution sketches to various stakeholders (SS architect team, Infrastructure SMEs, business, etc.) for review and feedback.
Primary technologies
Azure cloud (compute), GCP (big data), AWS (digital experience)
Job Responsibilities
?Candidates must be Solution Architects who work end to end in the process starting with the direct interaction with the business customers to understand the business needs and work with all areas/stakeholders to define a solution to meet the needs.
?Candidates are lack?ing the direct interaction with the business customers, instead, they work with technical customers with technical requirements on technical solutions such as cloud migration, data migration etc.