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Direct Staffing Inc

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

Direct Staffing Inc, Hartford, Connecticut, us, 06112


Job Description

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECTLocation:

HARTFORD, CTExperience:

2-5 yrsDegree:

Bachelor’sRelocation:

YesBonus:

YesThe Enterprise Architecture & Digital Services organization is looking for experienced Solution Architects to join their dynamic organization. The Solution Architecture role is a leadership technical position that requires strong application design skills, excellent communication skills, and strong leadership. Solution Architects are responsible for conceptualizing and designing solution architectures that enable business objectives. The Solution Architect ensures that the business’ functional and non-functional requirements are met by the technical solution design and ultimately implemented. The Solution Architect is responsible for ensuring that architectural standards and best-practices are practiced and followed.Responsibilities

Creating architecturally sound solution designs that solve business problems.Delivery of architecture/design and related deliverables, including Business, Application, Integration, Data, and Infrastructure design artifacts.Design of applications (including databases, programming languages, utilities, and testing approaches).Documenting solution designs and other architecture artifacts using standard architecture artifacts and notations, including UML.Applying and ensuring that all enterprise and industry standards and best-practices are followed in solution designs on assigned projects.Developing solution designs that follow Business and Domain roadmaps, blueprints, and enterprise standards.Creating 'solution snapshots' that drive estimation processes, provide insights into proposed solutions, and potential impacts on existing systems.Hands-on involvement and participation in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, analysis & design, and implementation.Working with technical and business partners to collect functional requirements on assigned projects.Establishing, prioritizing, and creating designs that meet or exceed a project’s non-functional requirements, including Performance, Availability, Scalability, Reliability, and Maintainability.Stewarding a project’s solution design through architecture governance processes.Ensuring that Enterprise Architecture’s roadmaps, blueprints, and long-term strategies are realized (or considered) on assigned projects.Identifying, articulating, and communicating technical impacts when technical decisions at a project or program level affect or constrain long-term strategies or total cost of ownership.Managing and conducting design and post-implementation technical reviews.Providing architecture and technical leadership on assigned projects.Establishing and maintaining the overall technical vision for assigned projects.Educating other team members on Enterprise standards and best practices.Owning the overall solution design and associated trade-off decisions throughout the life cycle of assigned projects.Assessing new technologies to determine suitability and alignment with enterprise technology.Participating in enterprise technology and functional planning processes to develop standards and best practices.Developing architecture roadmaps and blueprints for businesses and technical domains.Participating in or leading research and development opportunities to determine potential impact on the enterprise.Qualifications

At least 5 years of hands-on architecture experience creating and implementing architecture solution designs.Broad and deep technical experience in multiple hardware/software computing environments and system components.Strong analytical, research, and critical thinking skills.Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to facilitate and work effectively on assignments.Excellent communication skills and demonstrated experience interacting with senior executives as well as those who do not have technical backgrounds.Demonstrated ability to influence a variety of roles and audiences.Working knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks.Experience with UML, use cases, modeling, documenting architectures, and architecture design processes.Experience with all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle.Self-motivated and self-directed.Ability to handle multiple high-priority demands.Detail-oriented with clarity on the overall higher-level picture.Ability to understand and adapt to new and emerging technologies.Ability to use and document solution designs in Enterprise Architecture tools, planning IT and SPARX EA.A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related IT field or equivalent work experience required, advanced degree preferred.Strengths in one or more of the following Disciplines are a plus:

Application Architecture – ability to design applications that are highly available and can execute in cloud and multi-site architectures.Security Architecture – ability to design applications that meet the latest industry standards on security.Digital Architecture – Knowledge / experience in one or more of the following: web architecture and content management (Java, Fatwire), HTML5, mobile optimized web / native apps, inbound / outbound email communication, chat and cobrowse in the contact center.Publishing/Document Management – Ability to apply industry standard Enterprise Content Management practices and patterns.Integration Architecture – ability to design using SOA principles into enterprise architecture design.Infrastructure Architecture - Ability to design solutions across an array of infrastructure technologies and cloud services.Technologies

Strong working knowledge and experience with various integration patterns (Web Services, Messaging (MQ), Database Links, File Transfers).Mainframe and n-Tier applications and technologies.ETL technologies and tools.Application Security Design.Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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