Senior Solutions Architect

Senior Solutions Architect at Prism IT Global Senior Solutions Architect at Prism IT Global in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin Posted in 1 day ago.

Type:

full-time

Job Description:

Job Title:

Sr.

Solutions Architect Location:

Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin or Minnesota (Day-1 Onsite-Hybrid) - 3 days a week (Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday)

Corporate Office:

Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin Duration:

6+ months Contract to Hire

JOB SUMMARY

The solutions architect proactively and holistically leads and supports Enterprise Architecture (EA) activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio of solutions. Solutions include projects and products, systems (including applications, technologies, processes, and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The below listing of essential functions is not an all-inclusive listing of duties that may be requested by your supervisor or manager. Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work. Works closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product life cycle. Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise solution designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes. Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements. Monitors micro- and macroscopic trends in EA as well as global currents, including economic, political, social/cultural, environmental, regulatory/legal and/or technological disruptions for effective decision-making. Supports product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information. Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and their practical application to enable new and evolving business and operating models. Analyzes the technology industry, competitors, and market trends, and determines their potential implications for a given solution. Analyzes the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement. Facilitates the evaluation, selection and TCO of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations. Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify designs to accommodate the solutions architecture. Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to support architectural governance to assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate. Supports a community of practice (CoP), guiding and helping agile teams, product owners to align with the overall enterprise architecture governance and assurance. Designs and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring solutions architecture assurance and compliance. Defines the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

Knowledge of various backend development languages. Good understanding of various database technologies like MySQL, MongoDB and Oracle. Skilled in various frontend web development languages like JavaScript, HTML and CSS Sound knowledge of relevant enterprise, cloud, or customer relationship management (CRM) systems. Knowledge of various artificial intelligence/machine learning frameworks (AI/ML) Data savvy with knowledge of various aspects of a technology architecture like integration, network, and security. Good understanding of information principles and processes.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

A Bachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience A minimum of 10 years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms, and processing environments Experience working in a relevant industry is helpful, but not required. Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies, and roadmaps. Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences.