CT&I Solution Architects are responsible for establishing the technical vision, direction and solution approach for our digital solutions, and work with our Tech Leads and developers (both onshore / offshore) to turn the vision into reality with an on-time and quality delivery. Solution Architects support concept development, architecture and design planning / estimation, and work with Product Managers to drive product development as a critical member of a product leadership team. Solution Architects are expected to have previous solution architecture, application architecture expertise along with full stack development experience utilizing agile development techniques / methodologies.
A Solution Architect will :
- Solution products / applications with a web-based systems architecture following microservices, event-driven enterprise application architecture patterns
- Provide and communicate unified technical vision for software products and breaks down vision into tangible tasks for developers
- Lead by demonstration of technical expertise (i.e. hands-on) across full technology stack (front-end, back-end, data modeling, 3rd party integration)
- Manage performance of offshore and onshore developers through effective task breakdown, management, prioritization, and alignment of work to resource capabilities
- Scale team productivity by decomposing user stories and features into individual units of work
- Directly contributes with written code and provides code reviews to ensure adherence to solution design
- Design solutions with appropriate data architecture, data modeling and data management considerations across relational, columnar and NoSQL
- Design solutions with appropriate considerations for advanced predictive and prescriptive analytics
- Participate in the cost estimation process by recommending the skills and numbers of developers required, and by performing effort estimation given product requirements
- Coordinate with customer, product team disciplines (e.g. UX / UI, DevOps, QA) and other product-related teams to build, test, and deploy software products
- Identify technical risks and proactively address issues that may have an impact on service levels or schedules
- Understand and apply agile software development techniques / methodologies to effect continuous quality improvement across people and processes
- Maintain responsibility for the quality and viability of software engineering deliverables by providing recommendations on technical solutions including design, build / buy decisions, open-source tooling, etc.
- Collaborate with Product Management, and other Tech Leads to define the design, development, and support toolsets and processes to improve the overall efficacy of product teams
- Providing direction and guidance, hands-on development support, code review, development oversight, and support to successfully deliver on time with quality
- Contributing to ongoing process and methodology improvements; and establishing architecture governance with compliance of technology solutions with architectural patterns and standards.
Minimum Year(s) of Experience : At least 7+ years of experience in software development with at least 3+ years in application architecture and solution architecture, leading developers in delivery of software products.
Minimum Degree Required : Bachelor's Degree
Degree Preferred : Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field
Knowledge Preferred
Demonstrates intimate knowledge and / or a proven record of success in modern software engineering approaches, technologies, and tools :
Cloud-ready architectures utilizing infrastructure and platform cloud services for Azure, AWS, or GCP;Event-driven and microservices architectures;Big Data / Analytics / AI tools;DevOps - virtualization, automation, continuous integration;Mobile / Web architecture stacks;Polyglot Persistence - RDBMS / NoSQL data stores (SQLServer, Postgres, MongoDB, Couchbase) and appropriate use cases;Rapid-prototyping workflows & development tools;Core : Java;Languages : HTML / CSS, Javascript;Frameworks / Libraries : Angular;Databases : NoSQL (mongo, neo4j, firebase), relational (mySQL, postgres);Configuration Management (optional) : Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform;Messaging : Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, GraphQLContainers : Docker, Kubernetes.Skills Preferred
Demonstrates intimate abilities and / or a proven record of success in technical lead roles involving the following areas :
Communicating, verbally and written, with both business and technical stakeholders to achieve product engineering objectives;Leading across all aspects of a technology solution - integration, data, services, front-end, back-end, network, deployment, scaling, security, performance, development, etc.;Managing rapid-prototyping efforts with new and emerging technologies leveraging agile development techniques;Experience with one or more AI concepts, building with Agents or AI Applications including RAG, Vector Storage, LLM FineTuning, Multi-Agent Frameworks (Langraph, etc).Experience building production level AI Features and going through QA, Deployment, Security for those featuresExperience Scaling from AI Ideas to full Production Applications from scratchDesigning successful technical / integration architectures for large-scale platforms with a mix of 3rd party vendor, open-source, custom software, including the documentation of technical assumptions and decisions;Contributing and managing incubators / innovation lab environments, and working with small teams across a variety of new and emerging technologies;Working in an environment that leverages project management skills like planning and tracking, issue and risk management, multitasking, team organization, and activity prioritization; and,Developing front-end, back-end, and / or systems administration applications with strong proficiency in at least one scripting language (Java, Angular, etc.).Provide solution hand-off and training for the new features to Operations and Production Support teams