We are looking for a Solution Architect to join our client's team on a contract basis. Client for this project is a large global professional services firm.

Responsibilities

• Identify key business stakeholders and establish communication with;
• Identify business goals and objectives;
• Gather primary functionality, quality characteristics of software behavior and given constraints;
• Elaborate business, information, and technology architectures mapping;
• An elaborate architecture vision that satisfies architecturally significant requirements, through trade-off analysis, proof of concept implementation, and benchmarking.
• Set up and manage architecture design and documentation processes;
• Document and communicate architecture decisions and trade-offs to major stakeholders;
• Review and validate design decisions made by downstreams and ensure they do satisfy the solution architecture vision.

Requirements

• Fluent English;
• Commercial experience in software development (more than 7 years);
• Commercial experience in solution architecture design (more than 3 years);
• Experience with data management, data integration, and data transformation approaches;
• Understanding of containerization and orchestration;
• Understanding SDLC processes and their reasoning;
• Experience with guiding software development, testing, deployment, and project management;

Excellent knowledge in Computer Science, Computing Theory:

• Architectural & Design Patterns;
• Paradigm & Principles;
• Database theory;
• Code testing practices;

Practical experience with:

• Microservices architecture;
• Cloud technologies (Microsoft Azure): Azure DevOps; Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS); Azure Databricks; Azure Service Bus;
• DBMS: Microsoft SQL; MongoDB;.NET 10;

Business skills:

• Excellent client-facing, business consulting, and communication skills;
• Ability to efficiently communicate verbally and visually.
• Ability to explain and prove the differences, pros and cons of suggested design decisions.
• Ability to influence senior client decision makers;
• Develop long-lasting relationships with business and technical stakeholders
• Leading and supporting medium to large size solution delivery projects;
• Analysis of business, product and technology requirements.

Desirable Certifications on:

• Architecture framework (SEI, TOGAF, etc.);
• Cloud providers (Microsoft Azure)
• Delivery processes (SAFe, Agile, etc);

Experience with:

• Release Management tools & Configuration Management tools;
• Infrastructure as a code tools
• Experience in Pre-sales, Proposal/Bid preparation;
• Databricks experience is a plus.

Personal skills:

• Ability to relate positively to and engage with a wide range of people
• Strong self-motivation, reliable and flexible team-player. High attention to details
• Always seeking to improve processes and suggest alternative better solutions
• Be ready to embrace change, be flexible