Senior Solution Architect

Overview

As a Solution Architect, it’s your job to ascertain that envisaged solutions become reality. Taking this client-facing role, you are equally comfortable in deep-dive technical workshops and in board-level sales presentations. Having earned your stripes in designing web & mobile based platforms, you have no problem finding the scope in large-scale, complex projects.

To the development team, you are the vital mainstay during processes of implementation, being a hands-on technology leader. To customers and partners, you are the expert liaison with a keen feel for their needs. So besides being a great technologist, you are also a considerate companion who delivers remarkable results on a continuous basis.

Responsibilities

You will be part of the development team in which you will fulfill a leading role only gained by excellent performance. Talking highly specific technical details as well as discussing general business outcomes, you comfortably translate customer requirements into a distinguished design. You dedicate yourself to security, deployment, performance, caching, sizing, scalability and reliability.

You know projects are to be delivered according to briefing, time and budget, and you provide structure and clear explanations to guide and oversee the team. You are a hands-on architect who partners closely with engineering leads to design, build, and run scalable solutions. You take ownership in shaping the architecture and in how it performs in production, leading from the front in critical incidents and driving resolution when it matters most.

Also part of the job is creating technical architecture assets; working with the QA lead to define the test strategy; leading DevOps to define and implement CI / CD pipelines; ensuring that implementations meet non-functional requirements; and traveling a significant amount of the time to spend on-site during inception phases and when providing training and workshops.

Qualifications

• You have professionally worked with Enterprise Integration Patterns and Frameworks;
• You are self-sufficient as a Solutions Architect and able to manage clients / stakeholders;
• You have excellent communication and presentation skills in English;
• When asked about architectural frameworks, you readily draw on knowledge and best practices;
• You have experience with CI / CD practices and platforms;
• You have a demonstrable understanding of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), as well as Micro-Services Architecture;
• Your knowledge of the Java platform exceeds expectations;
• You have broad, operational knowledge of application servers, databases, load balancers and other infrastructure components required to deploy web applications in a highly available and scalable environment.

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