Solution Architect

Solution Architect Remote I am looking for true Solution Architects with expertise in defining artifacts, creating it roadmaps, and working with the business. Preference is for someone that comes from a hands on developer background. I have 2 teams hiring remote SAs. Please see the JD below. Any AI/ML and cloud experience is helpful. Support technical solutions for multiple value streams , helping to ensure successful product deliveries. Partner with key stakeholders to establish and adopt best practices, guidelines, and standards. Understand the product requirement and product vision, evaluate the high level technical feasibility, blocker or risks, lead the solution discussion, translate them into technical solutions Communicate and present solution to business partners, and engineering team on solution technical blueprint, collaborate to make successful product deliveries Guide engineering and other stakeholders on best practices and standards. Evangelize, mentor, and coach all on the same. Evaluate new technologies and vendors. Participate in POCs and discovery work as needed. Design and test technical solutions. Connect with subject matter experts (SMEs) to identify problem areas Evaluation of new technologies, vendors and hands on POCs on new or emerging technologies. Provide guidance to developers and other stakeholders on best practices, guidelines, and standards. Provide guidance to developers and other stakeholders regarding the design of server applications, encompassing APIs and micro-services, domain driven design, containers, databases, cloud infrastructures, and cloud services. Ensure all Non-Functional Requirements (e.g. performance, availability and fail-over, scalability, security, etc.) are properly articulated, and work with all parties to guarantee that the software products that are delivered meet these objectives. Participates in high-level estimation. Required Qualifications: 12+ years of hands-on consumer facing enterprise level application development experience (6+ Years in architecture). experience with concept of service API, caching, security , micro services, event-based integrations etc.. Experience with developing solutions for Cloud (GCP, Azure, or AWS). Expert understanding of architectural methodologies and best practices. Experience and proficiency with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies. Experience with the design and development of complex systems/user interfaces; employs a disciplined and rigorous approach. Experience with requirements analysis, estimation, systems and application design, and testing. Recognized ability to explain highly complex technical architectures, designs and issues clearly and understandably to all constituents. Familiarity with popular Design Patterns catalogues. Demonstrated grasp of technical issues and applies that thinking to designs and implementation. Experience with distributed computing architectures, including race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency control. Experience with CI/CD Pipeline, GIT and other DevOps principles. bility to work with persons in all job functions (e.g. Product, UX, Developers, QA, DevOps). Excellent verbal and written communications. bility to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision. Preferred Qualifications: Proven with the demonstrated ability to create technical solutions in large organizations with complex business requirements and constraints. Strong ability to work with multiple stakeholders, including business, product, and UX team members to influence the application data-flow design and extensible product platform architecture. Takes a disciplined approach to software development and problem solving; excels at breaking down large problems into multi-step plans in an Agile development environment. Collaborates with multiple Agile value stream execution teams in driving large solutions across multiple planning/execution cycles. Experienced with various types of software architectures including Micro Frontend/Microservice architecture, and especially Domain Driven Design. Possesses broad technology knowledge (cloud, enterprise applications, microservices, data analytics, networking, data storage systems, APIs, large-scale systems). Good understanding of ADA and other regulatory compliances including PCI, PII and PHI.