Solution Architect

1 month ago

Leawood, United States Ascend Learning Full time
We Impact Lives Through Purpose-Driven Work in A People First Culture

Ascend Learning is the connection between a powerful portfolio of brands serving students, educators, and employers with outcomes-based, data driven solutions across the lifecycle of learning.

Our values-driven culture unifies our teams and inspires a mindset of action, innovation, and collaboration, with a relentless focus on customers.

We're always looking for talented, passionate professionals to join us in our mission to help change lives. If this sounds like an environment where you'd thrive, read on to learn more.

Ascend Learning leads the way in innovation and solution creation to improve outcomes and deliver results for students, educators, and healthcare workers in the ever-changing field of healthcare. We offer advanced resources that drive nursing success, empower front-line certified allied health workers, help physicians pass boards and stay current, and provide education management tools for medical education programs.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Ascend Learning is hiring now for a self-driven individual with experience in aligning business processes, implementing, and architecting CRM platforms, and defining architectures across enterprise platforms in an integrated environment. This is an individual contributor role working with both the stakeholders and software engineers. This role is expected to interact with business stakeholders and leaders, team engineers, other development leads/architects, business/platform analysts, and QE resources. The ideal candidate will work closely with cross functional teams and collaborate with engineers to develop standard platforms across multiple business units and develop standard integration patterns. This person will also possess the ability to take leadership for key initiatives and produce conceptual and logical architectures to meet strategic business, financial and technology objectives through prototyping concepts, documentation of systems, architectures, and business process flows.

This position is expected to work closely with the teams within the Enterprise Applications team, designing and overseeing the implementation of architectures related to systems such as CRM and related components, HubSpot, e-commerce solutions, and more. In addition to the leadership and architecture responsibilities, a firm understanding of the underlying technologies is required.

WHERE YOU’LL WORK

This position offers the flexibility of remote work within the continental United States.

HOW YOU’LL SPEND YOUR TIME

  • Provide technical leadership through architecture discussions, documentation, technical design, performing code reviews, providing guidance on building reusable components, and designing integrations
  • Understand the business process; facilitate the discovery of entities, attributes, relationships, and business rules from functional experts and the user community
  • Evaluate current environments, conduct research, recommend, and implement innovative designs that can enhance the reliability, security, productivity, and efficiency of systems
  • Advocate for and embrace DevOps and CI/CD across the teams with a focus on scaling components and APIs horizontally, automated continuous deployment, version control, and monitoring.
  • Build trust and works collaboratively with all levels of the Tech and Ops organization, including staff, business stakeholders, and executives
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
  • Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience
  • 4+ years of software architecture, design, and implementation with a variety of technologies
  • 6+ years of cumulative experience implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Cloud along with expertise in Microsoft Power Platform: PowerApps, Flow/Power Automate, and Azure Apps.
  • 3+ years of software development in C#, .NET framework, MVC, Web API, JQuery, JavaScript/Typescript, SQL, and SSRS. Expertise is also required in Microservices, Micro frontends, and asynchronous messaging using Kafka or LogicApps.
  • Technology Platforms– Kafka (Messaging), Azure Service Bus, LogicApps, PowerPlatform
  • Must be able to produce clear documentation to convey architecture, development standards, roadmaps, and potential challenges to both technical and non-technical resources
  • Be responsible for all design and governance decisions for the D365 CE platform. Perform design reviews and manage the software development lifecycle. Act as ultimate technical owner for any automation. Validate software design and implementation, enforce robust tests, help formulate deployment strategies and ensure software is scalable, resilient and performant.
  • Disciplined, dynamic and flexible to manage multiple projects and tasks, work effectively in a rapidly changing environment and meet ongoing and overlapping deadlines
  • Strong oral and written communicator. Ability to summarize complex issues and situations concisely and clearly.
  • Able to apply an entrepreneurial approach and passion to problem solving and product development.
  • Strong influencing, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills
BENEFITS
  • Flexible and generous paid time off
  • Competitive medical, dental, vision and life insurance
  • 401(k) employer matching program
  • Parental leave
  • Wellness resources
  • Charitable matching program
  • Hybrid work
  • On-site workout facilities (Leawood, Gilbert, Burlington)
  • Community outreach groups

  • Tuition reimbursement


Fostering A Sense of Belonging

We seek out and celebrate all people and perspectives and cultivate an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued and be their authentic selves. Our culture is firmly rooted in the belief that by embracing our differences and drawing on diverse perspectives, we are a stronger, more innovative, and more successful organization where employees experience a sense of belonging.

About Ascend Learning

As a tech-enabled services company, Ascend Learning is a national leader in developing and delivering data-driven online educational content, software, assessments, analytics, and simulations serving institutions, students and employers across healthcare, fitness and wellness, public and workplace safety, skilled trades, insurance, financial services, cybersecurity, and higher education. We're committed to accelerating the learning pathways that can move people into careers where they have the knowledge and skills to have an impact and help change lives in the communities they serve. Headquartered in Burlington, MA with additional office locations and hybrid and remote workers in cities across the U.S., Ascend Learning was recognized by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group as one of America's 2023 Greatest Workplaces for Diversity.

Ascend Learning, LLC is proud to be an equal opportunity employer (M/F/Vets/Disabled). No agency or search firm submissions will be accepted. Applications for U.S. based positions with Ascend Learning, LLC must be legally authorized to work in the United States and verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

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