IT Solutions Architect

IT Solutions Architect

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Job Description

Synectics is looking for a customer-facing IT Solutions Architect to lead overall technical vision for IT solutions for our customers by designing, describing, and managing engineering in relation to specific business problems. The ideal candidate will have the skills and experience to understand our customers’ business and technical needs and design modern, sustainable IT solutions and explore technology architecture boundaries.

Duties and Responsibilities

· Support Corporate IT architecture, practices and solutions.

· Define technical solutions for current and potential business opportunities. Assess current architectures and work with technical teams to define “To Be” goal state. Assess the business impact that technical choices have on the overall solution. Provide specifications according to which solutions are defined, managed, and delivered

· Work with company managers and technology leaders to craft reusable enterprise solution approaches and technologies

· Support IT Project Planning

· Lead and Contribute on Technical Writing assignments with Project Managers and on Business Development proposal efforts

· Represent the Company in IT/Technical Meetings with Customer Business and Product Owners and Partners

· Analyze Financial Information and develop Budgets and Cost Estimates

· Ensure adherence to Corporate IT and Quality Management Processes

· Maintain Corporate standards documentation in accordance with CMMI3-Dev, and ISO guidelines

· Direct and oversee Information Security Management and Federal/Industry Security architecture, regulations and controls (i.e., FISMA, NIST, FIPS, FEDRAMP, etc.).

· Resolve technical problems as they arise on an ad hoc basis

· Continually research current and emerging technologies and proposing technology insertion for projects.

· Communicate solutions to developers

· Occasional hands-on coding, e.g., to test proofs of concept

· Assist in conducting code reviews to ensure quality control

· Discussing any technical limitations or abilities with business analysts when needed

· Assist in recruiting, hiring, and training new IT staff personnel and consultants/SMEs

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

· 7-10 years of experience working on software/systems development projects including three years in architecture, design deploying enterprise applications in cloud platforms

· Extensive experience with demonstratable success in the Federal Government marketspace

· Technical skills of a software developer and the business skills of a business analyst

· Solid understanding of large-scale, high-performance enterprise application deployment and solution architecture on complex heterogeneous environments

· Knowledge of current mainstream solution architectures, including cloud-based solutions and migration

· Solid understanding of leading-edge technologies to offer smart solutions to customers

· Proven experience in engineering and software architecture design

· Ability to effectively articulate solutions (verbally and in writing) and discuss business problems with customers and senior management positively influencing outcomes

· Experience participating in proposal efforts and leading the technical volume of solutions development. Must have extensive technical writing experience

· Strong working experience in developing enterprise web applications using Java or Microsoft technologies

· Strong understanding and working experience of Agile methodologies and DevOps framework

· Strong Experience in application modernization, refactoring, and migration approaches to transition applications workloads from On-Premise to Cloud (AWS preferred).

· Experience working with a multi-disciplinary team of analysts, data scientists, developers, and users to comprehend data requirements and design a robust data processing pipeline, implementing ETL processes, and developing data and metadata service components

· Experience with various operating system and relational database management systems

· Ability to research and make recommendations on software products and services in support of procurement and development efforts

· Ability to identify and document business processes

· Experience with Enterprise Architecture frameworks, including FEA, TOGAF and DoDAF.

Desired Skills and Experience:

· Previous project management experience is advantageous

· Business Intelligence solutions

· Data Analytics, Machine Learning solutions (Cloudera desired)

· Scalable SQL Query solutions (Apache Impala desired)

· Agile enterprise/program teams (Scrum, SAFe, etc.) preferred

· Big Data Solutions – Enterprise Data Warehouse design, implementation, and integration

· In-depth understanding of coding languages (Java, JavaScript)

· Familiarity with the use of Databricks

· Familiarity with the application of blockchain technology to predictive analytics

Education and Certifications

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology Management or Engineering, or other IT related degree. Master’s degree preferred

· AWS Solutions Architect Professional preferred

· Azure/GCP certifications preferred

Additional Information

Synectics is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.