Solution Architect

Job Title: Solution Architect

Visa: USC or GC

Interview: Video
Location: Tampa , FL / Nashville , TN (Hybrid - 3 Days onsite)

Client is the BIG 4 TAX & Auditing firm.

Position Summary
The solution architecture position will be responsible for planning and design of new Hardware and Software to meeting business requirements.
PRIMARY COMPETENCIES:
Understands all options available and objectively presents those options to management and leadership.
Acts as an internal consultant on many initiatives.
Demonstrates abilities to self-learn.
Able to articulate architecture proposals relevant to the audience.
Proves the feasibility of proposals through lab work including custom development proofs of concept and mock-ups.
Actively promotes teamwork and inclusion to ensure that all views are heard and requirements are accounted for.
Resolves any conflicts within project teams and seeks reconciling of disagreements.
Builds consensus and always encourages dialogue.
Identifies the peer groups who should be participating to ensure consistency and success.
Listens effectively.
Effectively builds organizational partnerships and networks.
Exhibits high level of professional flexibility.
Understands the nature of changing priorities and adapts their workload accordingly.
Plans, organizes, and controls multiple responsibilities to achieve various project objectives.
Understands how to socialize ideas and approaches to garner support.
Possesses a great deal of independence.
Asks thought-provoking questions that result in actionable technological patterns or solutions.
Technically guides projects through to completion.
Champions structure, process, best practices, and standards.
Accepts and manages ambiguity and complexity, as well as the changing requirements and expectations as business perspectives evolve as more relevant information surfaces.
Able to identify the need to revise scope and requirements.
Deals effectively with change barriers and project constrains.
Guides others through change process that may be needed due to introduction of new technology or direction.

Candidates must be available in either the Tampa or Nashville office 3 days a week.
• Providing technical and architectural leadership for Microsoft .NET web applications by leveraging AWS Cloud services
• Create Architecture and Design documentation for the applications and present them to the review board
• Collaborating frequently with clients to provide cloud solutions and assistance; and working with these customers to understand their requirements for cloud implementations that add the most value to their business.
• Create functional design specifications, AWS reference architectures, design documents and assist with other project deliverables as needed.
• Design state-of-the-art technical solutions on AWS that address customers' requirements for scalability, reliability, security, and performance and leverage existing investments in AWS platforms.
• Designing, developing, implementing, and releasing high quality custom software solutions using Scrum.
• Creating project and application architecture deliverables that are consistent with architecture principles, standards, methodologies, and best practices.
• Leading technical design sessions with the development teams, including the creation of class models, sequence diagrams, component models, etc., and detailed design specifications to ensuring that architecture standards are followed.
• Applying the very best technical agile patterns and practices when building custom software solutions.
• Working under some supervision from a Solution Architect, but will be expected to work independently on complex, non-routine tasks and projects. You may interact with end users and other technical personnel to identify and correct issues.
• Maintain continuous, open, consistent professional communication with customers, peers and team members. Openly listen to others and confirm understanding to ensure everyone is on the same page.
• Reviewing and approving 3rd party and integration solution architecture based on established enterprise application strategy.
• Communicating implications of architectural decisions, issues and plans to business and IT Leadership.
• Defining and validating non-functional (technical) requirements, and establishing traceability between requirements and application architecture/design.
• Providing support / guidance to the development teams during the analysis, development, and testing processes.
• Providing input to the development of project initiation documents including objectives, scope, approach, estimates, and deliverables, when needed.
• Working closely with Performance Engineering and our Web/Infrastructure Technology teams on defining the deployment architecture.
• Learn, learn, and learn by staying up-to-date on all technical developments related to AWS and other public cloud platforms.

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