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Posted: 25-Mar-22
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Type: Contract
Preferred Education: 4 Year Degree
Categories:
Information Technology
Our client has an immediate need for a Solutions Architect who will be responsible for providing deep technical knowledge and architectural design mentorship at a platform and portfolio level and will be a key contributing architect on large/complex projects with a variety of components.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant work experience
- 8+ years of web-development or solutions architecture experience
- Experience with end-to-end software development of complex, decoupled distributed systems
- Experience with multiple IT disciplines with a confirmed understanding of relevant architectural concepts
- Experience using system and process analysis
- Experience with relational and non-relational data stores (e.g. SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.) from an application development perspective
- Experience building highly available customer-facing applications, in a GDHA setting
- Experience building cloud-native applications (familiarity with resilience patterns, scaling, unique considerations for cloud environments)
- Experience developing APIs, including security protocols, design concepts, transport protocols (e.g. HTTP, gRPC), etc.
- Experience building cloud-native applications
- Experience working in Scrum or Kanban and able to articulate rationale for selecting particular agile methods
- Experience delivering solutions on at least one major public cloud provider (Azure, GCP, AWS)
- Experience creating relevant design artifacts to support solution design and communication to targeted audiences
- Experience in the financial services industry; understanding of the role of consumer and custodial banks; experience handling sensitive financial data
- Experience in cybersecurity
- Experience in customer-facing mobile application design and architecture
Responsibilities:
- Working across multiple technology domains and developing a solution and presenting the design
- Aligning efforts with central architecture function to influence technical standards and progress enterprise objectives
- Participating in design and code reviews to ensure both deliveries of desired business outcomes and alignment to enterprise standards
- Driving key architecture decisions to solve critical complex problems for assigned and adjacent platforms. Working with the Company Platform Owner and senior architects to guide Technical Platform architecture and engineering teams
- Focusing on driving architecture towards long-term Business Unit/Enterprise goals and objectives
- Capturing best-practice knowledge from engineering and field teams and share reference architectures and patterns with technical teams
Why Work for ConsultUSA:
- ConsultUSA offers competitive salaries, major medical (PPO or HDHP w/ HSA), dental, and vision insurance plans, and 401k plan with immediate eligibility for both salary and hourly employees
- ConsultUSA hosts several outings and events, holiday and summer parties, and volunteer opportunities throughout the year for employees
- We will work with you to obtain training for in-demand technologies and prepare you for industry-recognized certification exams
- ConsultUSA offers Business Analysis and Project Management training through our Project Management Institute (PMI)® award-winning sister company, PMCentersUSA
How to Apply:
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