Solutions Architect

Onward Search is a specialized staffing and talent solutions company that helps professionals find top jobs with the nations leading brands. Were looking to hire a Solutions Architect for a fully remote, contract opportunity with a leading healthcare company. Do not pass up this chance, apply quickly if your experience and skills match what is in the following description. Solution Architect Responsibilities Receive epic/feature assignments and general direction from train architect. Partner with Product Owner, BA and Development technical leads to refine/understand requirements. Partner with Solution Domain Lead architects (if necessary) to seek guidance or vet solutions impacting other domains. Collaborate with integration architect to deliver solution artifacts (sketch, ppt, etc.) Continuously attain and refine business and systems subject matter expertise. Leverage architecture patterns for the solution. Create them if covering new ground. Present solution sketches to various stakeholders (SS architect team, Infrastructure SMEs, business, etc.) for review and feedback. Required Skills: Significant experience with systems integration. Experience with the design and development of complex systems; employs a disciplined and rigorous approach Adept at requirements analysis, estimation, systems and application design, and testing Familiarity with popular Design Patterns. Excellent collaboration, influencing, and consensus-building skills. Ability to work with persons in all job functions (e.g. product, program, developers, etc). Excellent verbal and written communications Ability to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision. Self-directed A great team player, with demonstrable experience delivering superior software products via Agile methodologies Experience on an Agile team Experience with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies such as Java, JavaScript, Node.js, messaging queuing infrastructures, as well as cloud and on-premise infrastructure and services Experience with distributed computing architectures, including race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency control Meeting facilitation with stakeholders, partners and team Desired Skills A proven track record working as part of a team on large/complex systems Architectural/technical experience with cloud native especially AWS and GCP and their cloud offerings. Experience with RDBMS and/or NoSQL databases (i.e. MongoDB). Understands the benefits and trade-offs of both. Familiar with normalization and denormalization, sharding, and other data-centric patterns Architectural/technical experience with Gen AI (RAG frameworks, Vector DB searches and embeddings, etc.) and/or Conversational AI (IBM WatsonX, Google Dialog Flow, etc.) Experience designing REST APIs that facilitate a strong developer experience or simplify systems integration. Experience with SAFe Software Development Principles Experience with distributed caching solutions; understands the factors that enable effective caching Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps Experience with Service Now or Salesforce for case management, workflow-based solutions Primary technologies API-first centric enterprise GCP (big data), AWS (digital experience/compute), Azure cloud (compute), Salesforce Service Cloud for user experience (GPS and some MX) Workflow experience with Service Now. Perks & Benefits: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance Life Insurance 401k Program Commuter Benefit eLearning Education Reimbursement Ongoing Training & Development *To qualify for our benefits package, you must work over 30 hours per week and the length of assignment must be a minimum of 10 weeks. xrczosw To learn more about this Solution Archiect opportunity, apply now. Our recruitment team will be in touch, guide you through the interview process, and advocate on your behalf.