Solution Architect

Job Title: Solution Architect

Company Overview:

Crown Castle is a leading provider of shared communications infrastructure, including towers, small cells, and fiber. We enable the technologies that connect people and communities, transforming the way we live and work.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a skilled Solution Architect to design and implement comprehensive technology solutions across our SaaS products and custom-developed applications. As a key member of our team, you will partner with technical and business stakeholders to analyze needs, identify solutions, and design a comprehensive plan for implementation.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with stakeholders to understand and analyze business requirements to identify potential technology solutions
• Recommend, lead, and participate in solution architecture work for assigned initiatives, ensuring consistency with long-term business objectives
• Valuate and select appropriate technologies and platforms for the solution
• Lead end-to-end design and plan the implementation of the chosen solution
• Define and document the overall solution architecture
• Ensure the solution meets performance, scalability, and security requirements
• Provide technical guidance and support to development teams
• Identify and mitigate potential risks and issues related to the solution
• Develop and maintain architectural standards and best practices
• Participate in the continuous improvement of the solution and its components

Requirements:

• 8+ years' software engineering or software development experience
• 2+ years' solution architecture experience or equivalent experience contributing to software/solution design, development, and delivery in a customer or stakeholder-facing role
• Experience with tradeoff studies or options analysis considering technical and non-technical factors influencing decisions
• Experience working across a matrixed organization to solve complex engineering problems
• Deep understanding of software engineering and data integration methodologies that enable cross-system communication
• Familiarity with APIs, microservices, middleware, technical architecture design, and testing
• Strong integration design skills, including REST APIs, message queuing, streaming, and event-driven architecture (AWS SMS, Kafka)
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms and their capabilities, with AWS preferred
• Familiarity with integrations to ERP platforms (Oracle Fusion and JD Edwards preferred)
• Demonstrated communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to communicate at various organizational levels and to team members with different levels of technical skills
• Empathetic to customer and end-user needs, with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions that deliver value
• Thorough understanding of SDLC and various project and design methodologies (including Agile and Domain-Driven Design)

Working Conditions: This is a remote role with the expectation of on-site/in-person collaboration with teammates and stakeholders for moments that matter and may require occasional travel (