Solutions Architect II

Solutions Architect II

Birmingham, AL Atlanta, GA Charlotte, NC (Hybrid)

6-month contract to hire

Pay Range $ /hr.

Our client needs a Solutions Architect II to oversees multiple dimensions of assigned applications and/or capabilities including but not limited to stability, life cycle management, version control, design and development, mapping of business requirements to capability oriented technical requirements, and ensuring technology solutions to business needs are developed in accordance with the architectural roadmap, guidelines, and standards.

Responsibilities

• Manages end to end from conception, through delivery, into production of solution architectures
• Partners with business and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions
• Participates in the design and modeling of architectures for delivery, development, and support of projects
• Collaborates with other domain architects to provide a consensus based scalable and adaptable architectural solution
• Collaborates on roadmaps to ensure enough architectural runway to align information technology priorities with business partner requirements and strategies
• Promotes the reuse of services, components, frameworks, and infrastructure as code to reduce costs and improve how information flows
• Supports team members on the design of deployment strategies and solutions
• Look for opportunities to simplify code, existing or new architectures and vendor dependencies
• Builds and maintains technical trusted advisor relationships with influential technical decision makers within Technology
• Makes recommendations to improve application operational efficiency, enhance program usage and increase understanding of the program
• Designs both the physical and logical components of solution architectures that will deliver a positive business outcome
• Works closely with Enterprise Architecture to ensure compliance with Regions' architectural principles and patterns
• Provides feedback to Enterprise Architecture with respect to potential deviations from or necessary modifications to existing architectural principles and patterns
• Works closely with Cyber Security to understand network, application, and data security requirements
• Works with all stakeholders to understand non-functional requirements that may have a material impact on solution architecture
• Works with software delivery teams to ensure that the solutions are observable and secure by design
• Oversees technical analysis and design capabilities

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field and five (5) years of enterprise, solutions and/or technical architecture related experience
• Or a High School Diploma/GED and nine (9) years of enterprise, solutions and/or technical architecture related experience
• Experience of N-tier architectures and complex design architectures
• Experience with Agile methods
• Experience with technical, application, and information architecture delivery techniques and methodologies
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Proven experience designing automation frameworks from scratch.
• Experience setting up and maintaining data for test automation

Expertise in:

• Python web frameworks Django or Flask
• Selenium
• REST API testing tools (REST Assured)
• SQL and RDBMS systems

Bonus Skills:

• Familiarity with compliance or regulatory testing is a plus.
• Knowledge of application scalability and performance tuning
• Experience with of CI/CD and continuous testing practices, specifically Harness
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau and Harness
• PDF/image parsing libraries (e.g., UIPath, OCR)
• Containerization and Kubernetes