Solutions Architect

About the Team VIZIO's Technology - Software and Services team is seeking a Solutions Architect to join their growing team. A successful candidate will learn the VIZIO software stack including the operating system architecture, integration layer, app layers, and cloud services. You will work with our product team to understand business requirements, architect, and document the technical solution, and communicate the solution to development teams. The Solution Architect will report to our Senior Manager of Software Engineering. This position will not have direct reports and is an Individual contributor. We pride ourselves on being a collaborative team here at Vizio and to accomplish this, we are in office 5 days a week in our Dallas, TX office. What You Will Do Business Collaboration: Review requirements documents for feasibility and completeness and collaborate with business to understand the needs. Architecture: Design and document technical solutions to business needs. Technical Guidance: Create epics and design documents for development teams, communicate the design to the teams, assist with translating the design into user stories, and provide ongoing guidance. Technical Excellence: Discover and drive efforts to improve overall technical quality of existing solutions. Technical Consistency: Identify opportunities for common solutions across multiple teams and solutions; drive consistency in our approach. By 3 months , you should understand the existing architecture from the TV side and have created architectural document templates and established architectural standards. By 6 months you should begin architecting new projects at kickoff and working with development teams on delivery. By 1 year you will be documenting complex/inefficient existing solutions and driving improvement to them. About You Excellent communication skills (verbal and written). You are great at collaboration and negotiation. You can see what's missing from business requests and technical proposals. At least a bachelor's degree in computer science or similar discipline. At least 5 years of experience in software engineering. At least 2 years of experience in technical leadership. Experience in embedded systems is strongly preferred. Demonstrated ability in negotiating technical solutions across multiple teams. Demonstrated ability in negotiating tradeoffs with business between features and delivery effort. About VIZIO We are Beautifully Simple. Headquartered in Irvine, California, VIZIO is a leading HDTV brand in America and the 1 Sound Bar Brand in America. VIZIO's mission is to deliver high performance, smarter products with the latest innovations at a significant savings that we can pass along to our consumers. Our loyal following and industry-wide praise continues to grow as we redefine what it means to be smart. VIZIO, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We will not pay fees to any third-party agency, outside recruiter or firm without a mutually agreed-upon contract and will not be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. Unsolicited resumes will be considered our property and will be processed accordingly.