Solution Architect

Job Title: Solution Architect

Location: Dallas, TX

Contract Length: CTH – 6 Months

Job Description:

The position must have the following:

ROLES:

• Designs, develops, and ensures compliance to architectural standards throughout the lifecycle.
• Analyzes the Business-IT environment (run, grow, and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, and recommends solutions for improvement (systems of record, differentiation, and innovation).
• Identifies aging technology issues or misalignment, with business requirements, and proposes solutions.
• Partners with Enterprise Architects for domain roadmaps and reference architecture.
• Executes projects and initiatives on the domain roadmap in partnership with Enterprise Architects.
• Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and identifies when it is necessary to modify projects to accommodate the solution architecture.
• Ensures cohesiveness of solution designs across various projects/solutions.
• Collaborates with Enterprise Architects to balance needs between Solution Architectural Guardrails.
• Designs, develops, and directs solution architectures, design exceptions, and governance activities in compliance with target states, reference architectures, architecture standards, technology guardrails, and security and operational guidelines.
• Identifies the organizational impact (skills, processes, structures, or culture) and financial impact of the solutions architecture.
• Creates non-functional specs for operational agility, disaster recovery, and support.
• Establishes solution delivery flow for continuous integration, testing and delivery, and operational deployment in partnership with project managers, solution leads, and other stakeholders.
• Conducts design reviews to validate alignment with architecture.
• Modifies solution architecture to support changing business or technology requirements.
• Documents solutions architecture design and analysis work and communicates architectural decisions that impact solutions.
• Defines the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
• Communicates infrastructure, software, information, and/solution concepts to all levels of management.
• Designs methodology that consistently yields the right level of technical design documentation and develops technical solutions that conform both to customer requirements and information development standards.
• Adheres to Costco’s Architectural Framework and Governance model.
• Exercises technical leadership throughout the development life cycle and focuses on delivery of quality solutions.
• Oversees software architecture, including determination of current limitations and compatibilities between subsystems,
• selection of new concepts and methodology, and development of mission critical enhancements.
• Partners and fosters collaboration with IT, business partners, and internal and external parties throughout the project.
• Gathers specifications from the business units and delivers architectural artifacts that meet the needs presented.
• Mentors Senior Development Leads to and enables them to have impact on their own projects.
• Provides guidance and best practices for our software Development Lifecycle.
• Analyzes and experiments on potential new tools or systems and provides recommendations to senior leadership on the path forward, to be current in technology focused perspective.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Related work experience or equivalent.
• Object-Oriented programming skills and design pattern knowledge on Service Side Application.
• Expertise with design and development of client-server and/or web-based applications.
• Experience in JSP ,Servlets ,Core Java and Java script ,jQuery and Able to write SQL Queries.
• Expertise with Java technologies and libraries, including Collections, I/O, Networking, Multi-Threading, Reflection, and JDBC.
• Expertise in relational database design and development.
• Expertise with data transmission/exchange standards like XML, JSON, X/HTML.
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis abilities.
• Technical leadership role/ ability to be a team player as well as an independent performer.
• Excellent mentoring abilities.
• Demonstrated experience working through the entire SDLC on previous projects.
• Professional Information Technology experience in solutioning, designing, development, and delivering computer systems.
• Technical team leadership experience.
• Hands-on solutions architecture experience with COTS package integration experience.
• Proven skills in leadership, relationship building, negotiation, collaboration, advocacy, governance, and consensus building.
• Knowledge of IT Application architecture and Design methodologies across multiple platforms.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution) at all levels.
• Ability to translate technical ideas/designs to multiple audiences, including Executives.
• Thorough understanding of and experience with multiple SDLC methods such as waterfall, SCRUM, and/or Agile.
• Ability to communicate trade-offs and transactional states with technical and business teams.
• Ability to make architecture changes in a dynamic agile environment.

Recommended:

· Bachelor's degree, or the equivalent, in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

· High School Diploma or GED preferred.

Thank you.