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Solutions Architect
Are you passionate about technology and delivering solutions that impact our nation's most beautiful, iconic, and cherished resources? Intelix systems is seeking a Solutions Architect to join a talented, tight-knit, and rapidly growing team supporting our clients.
Role and Responsibilities
As a Solutions Architect, you will work with stakeholders in an agile Development, Security and Operations (DevSecOps) environment toward accomplishment of the goals and objectives of a multi-year IT Strategic Plan and Technical Roadmap. The individual will play a key role in multiple stages of the IT solution lifecycle from Ideation through Service Delivery and Operations.
This position is a hands-on architecture leadership position. It requires the ability to assist with solution architecture - taking new business requests and determining what can be done to meet the business and field needs. Assessing legacy services and applications, researching the potential options, and conducting a path analysis and providing recommendations is a regular activity. You will assist the team in defining which technology and direction should be for specific business needs.
Solution Architects will create conceptual and logical specifications for all aspects of solution design through collaboration with business, enterprise, application, security, and infrastructure architects. The Solutions Architects shall make recommendations on software, hardware, hosting services, and communications to support the product vision as well as provide for present and future cross-functional requirements and interfaces based on solution and program increment roadmaps.
Day to day, sample responsibilities include, but may not be limited to, the following:
- Collaborate on the technical efforts of teams responsible for modernizing a high-profile public-facing application portfolio
- Develop solution and technical architecture designs
- Support agile design and development activities
- Create conceptual and logical specifications through collaboration with business, enterprise, application, security, and infrastructure architects
- Make recommendations on software, hardware, hosting services, and communications to support the product vision as well as provide for present and future cross-functional requirements and interfaces based on solution and program increment roadmaps
- Ensure systems are compatible and in compliance with IT standards for architecture, including the implementation of specific solutions for on-premises and cloud platforms, integration with other systems, and their external interfaces
- Collaborate with technical teams to develop artifacts for reuse by subsequent projects
- Conduct application rationalization efforts for legacy applications and services
- Model business and systems processes based on findings through use case scenarios, workflow diagrams, and data models
- Develop and refine system architectural concepts and integrated architectural models
- Analyze and document requirements and functional specifications
- Identify options to solve business problems and comparison of alternatives based on stakeholder criteria
- Develop high-level cost and schedule estimates for the introduction of new systems and modernization of existing systems
- Describe the structure, characteristics, behavior, and other aspects of systems to project stakeholders
- Monitor the progress of systems engineering efforts and assistance with resolution of issues and mitigation of risks
- Monitor the progress of agile application design, development, and testing efforts and assistance with resolution of issues and mitigation of risks
- Identify options to solve business problems and comparison of alternatives based on stakeholder criteria
Prerequisites
The ideal candidate for the Solutions Architect position will possess the following:
- 7+ years of solution and/or technical architecture experience across a range of technologies
- 3+ years of experience with large-scale modernization efforts involving enterprise applications
- 5+ years as a software developer and/or infrastructure engineer
- Certifications: AWS: Solution Architect Associate (required); AWS Solution Architect Professional (desired) and/or Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- A thorough understanding of DevSecOps principles and the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) of custom applications, Low Code Development Platforms (LCDPs), and/or Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) solutions
- Demonstrated ability to digest complex issues, assess various options, and create recommended paths for solutions and services
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across multi-functional teams and businesses dealing with software and hardware products
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex topics with senior leaders in an organization
- Demonstrated understanding of technical issues pertaining to enterprise scalability, economies of scale, and their impacts on total costs of ownership (TCO) in very large deployments.
- Required Must be able to work on intelix systems W2.
Job Snapshot
- Salary to be based on experience and current market rates
- Full-time salaried employee
