Job Details

Title: Application Architect
Location: Bellevue, WA (Remote)
Position Type: Contract
Duration: 12+ months (Long Term)

Required skills:

• Design enterprise architecture solutions,
• Cloud (AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Middleware services
• Microservices
• API
• Databases (Relational and Non-Relational).

• Own solution design for multiple initiatives, works across domain to ensure cohesive solution, identify gaps in the architecture and solution design, and assess and define remediation efforts or mitigation options.
• Work toward practical solutions considering all teams, initiatives, and long-term outlook by implementing decisions improving quality, efficiency to achieve revenue, profitability and strategic goals for the organization.
• Connect business strategies to technology domains for delivery, maximizing well-defined structure of client's business processes, products and capabilities.

• Lead overall end-to-end solution design, ensure quality, consistency, and alignment of designs to client's standards and technical strategies.
• Lead large cross-domain initiatives and apply technical standards to develop solution architecture, drive technical strategy and architectural tradeoff discussions.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of how people, processes, and technology interact to perform the fundamental activities of the business in both current and future state and model these interactions to guide technology strategy to better achieve business outcomes.
• Works cross-functionally to understand the linkage between the client's business goals, business architecture, and requirements frameworks.
• Compile, deliver, and promote end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide the evolution of infrastructure, products, and services by applying depth and breadth of expertise in multiple related subject areas.
• Mentors, team members on standard processes in area of expertise. Grasp and communicate big-picture enterprise-wide issues to team.
• Technology and System:
• Compile, develop, and deliver architectural guardrails; influence stakeholders and ensure compliance with architectural guardrails within many technological domains that support the needs of products teams to efficiently launch products and services.
• Lead technical solutions on cross domain initiatives. Develop innovative solutions and technology strategies. Owns E2E solution design strategy across teams.
• Prepare and maintain design work including architecture diagrams, data models, and API / micro-service architecture while supporting the definition and adoption of common software development processes.
• Write clear documentation describing architecture, design strategies, standards, technical specifications, business benefits, opportunities and threats to craft executive and external materials.

• Collaborate with Senior management to build and align solutions and translate business requirements into technical requirements for technical team members to drive into initiative and project design and delivery.
• Apply a broad understanding of the products, systems and technologies across the business portfolio and deep technical ability on integration of these components to deliver a cohesive E2E solution architecture for a given initiative.

• Validated experience in software engineering/enterprise architecture/technology leadership across multiple products, systems and/or platforms coupled with strong eye for business and executive presence. (Required)
• Validated experience working in solutions design and enterprise architecture delivering technical solutions. (Required)
• Validated experience in Enterprise applications, PLM (product lifecycle management), middle-tier services, database, storage, distributed computing, virtualization and/or application technology. (Required)
• Validated experience in Cloud service provider (AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)).

• Agile Methodologies: Demonstrated success in advising matrixed resources and delivering software, with Agile Scrum methodologies and other commonly used tools, across multiple teams.
• Agile Project Management Experience with Agile backlog/project management tools.
• Collaboration Experience with successive elaboration and ability to develop Initiatives, Features and User Stories that the DevOps teams can apply.
• Product Management Experience implementing large and complex business/technology conversions as Product Manager or lead technology role.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences including executives and non-technical leaders. (Required)