Solutions Architect

Job Title: Solutions Architect
Clearance Required: Public Trust
Work Location: Remote

 Key Responsibilities:

• Establish and govern an enterprise system governance implementation roadmap including strategic priorities for development of information-based capabilities for the enterprise as well as migration of services.
• Work directly with stakeholders to comprehend solution problems and identify opportunities
• Work together with a team of application developers, engineers, and designers to deliver innovative technology solutions using on-premise, AWS, Azure, or hybrid cloud services
• Responsible for collecting and defining technical requirements to enable business process and integrations
• Establish an approximate level-of-effort and staffing requirements for complex development projects
• Lead the team of engineers and IT specialists to design effective, efficient, scalable, and secure applications within the organization's Cloud and on-premises software platform
• Ensure that solutions created by the development team stick to technical architecture standards
• Responsible for writing and reviewing standards, code and also contributing to all technical discussions and architecture planning
• Note down and maintain clear documentation and standards for cloud operations in the organization
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technology trends and promote an environment of learning
• Responsible for monitoring the production environment and advance the obtainable monitoring setup as needed
• Sustain performance and availability of production systems in the AWS or Azure Government and Commercial cloud infrastructures to achieve optimal uptime.

 Required Qualifications:

• Education:
  • Bachelors or master's in computer science, MIS, or Information Management or equivalent years of work experience
• Experience/Skills:
  • Minimum of 10 years of experience in a major services organization, with large-scale or project management and oversight experience. 
  • 8+ years in a Solutions Architect role, with transformation leadership experience.
  • Knowledge of industry leading data quality and data protection management practices
  • Knowledge of governance practices, business and technology issues related to management of enterprise information assets and approaches related to cyber security and data protection
  • Knowledge of data related government regulatory requirements and emerging trends and issues
  • Demonstrated consulting skills, with change management concepts and strategies, including communication, culture change and performance measurement system design
  • Knowledge of risk data architecture and technology solutions
  • Internally and externally recognized subject matter expert that influence the way things are done

 Preferred Qualifications:

• Leadership
• Highest personal and professional integrity and strong work ethics
• Ability to articulate vision of transformation efforts and a sense of mission
• Willingness to take change and provide direction
• Results orientation, willingness to commit to a direction and drive operations to completion
• Demonstrated ability to manage adversity and challenging situations
• Relationship Management
• Ability to manage senior relationships across all the Business and Functional areas
• Ability to develop cooperative and constructive working relationships
• Ability to handle complaints, settle disputes and resolve conflicts and negotiate with others
• Collaborative team player orientation towards work relationships, strong culture awareness
• Project Oversight and Decision-making
• Highly developed skills in priority setting and alignment of project priorities with Departmental strategy
• Ability to break down complex problems and projects into manageable goals
• Ability to get to the heart of the problem and make sound and timely decisions to resolve problems
• Effectiveness in building trust, respect and cooperation among teams
• Preferred expert knowledge in Microsoft Azure Cloud data offerings and usage.

Salary and Benefit Information:

The likely salary range for this position is $97,000 - $132,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic locatio