Senior Solution Architect

Job Description

Sr. Solution Architect

Chicago, IL

12 Months

Contract

Skype + F2F

MUST HAVE:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience

• 15+ years relevant experience in technical leadership and/or technology consulting on large enterprise projects

• Multiple projects working at an Architect level with an Architect title

• Knowledge of Agile processes (Scrum preferred)

• Experience designing and building large-scale, distributed systems delivered as Enterprise-wide, global-facing PaaS or SaaS offerings.

• Experience with large scale migrations to Azure

• Experience with SOA and/or micro services-based architectures.

• Experience with documenting complex solution architecture designs
  • Proficient in ability to document designs using modeling and diagramming techniques appropriate for the required context.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience and solid understanding of the following technologies:
  • C#/.NET 4.5+
  • Web API
  • SQL Server 2014+
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Experience with a message broker / service bus technology
  • Azure

• Knowledge of Domain Driven Design

• Able to identify and communicate issues/risks applying technical and root cause analysis skills

• Self-motivated and proactive

• Possess strong decision making, problem solving and analytical skills

• Excellent communication, presentation, influencing, and reasoning skills
  • Comfortable speaking in front of an executive audience

• Creativity and ability to think outside-the-box while defining sound and practical solutions

• Desire to take the initiative, moving projects/ideas forward with clarity

• Adept negotiation skills in high-pressure situations

Additional Information

NICE TO HAVE:

• NoSQL technologies, such as MongoDB and Redis

• Service Bus for Windows Server / Azure Service Bus

• AWS

• Cloudera Hadoop ecosystem

• Tableau

• Enterprise Architecture certification, such as EACOE or TOGAF

• Tax industry / financial services experience