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Cygnus Professionals

Technology consulting and staffing

Senior Solution Architect

Full-Time
No salary listed
Expert
Bachelor's
Chicago, IL, USA
In PersonThe role is a 12-month contract and includes Skype and face-to-face interviews.

About the job

Requirements
  • A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.
  • At least 15 years of relevant experience in technical leadership and/or technology consulting on large enterprise projects.
  • Experience working on multiple projects at the architect level with an architect title.
  • Knowledge of Agile processes, preferably Scrum.
  • Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems delivered as enterprise-wide, global-facing Platform as a Service or Software as a Service offerings.
  • Experience with large-scale migrations to Azure.
  • Experience with service-oriented architecture and/or microservices-based architectures.
  • Experience documenting complex solution architecture designs using modeling and diagramming techniques appropriate for the required context.
  • Hands-on experience and solid understanding of C#/.NET 4.5 or later, Web API, SQL Server 2014 or later, Windows Server 2012 R2, a message broker or service bus technology, and Azure.
  • Knowledge of Domain-Driven Design.
  • Ability to identify and communicate issues and risks using technical and root cause analysis skills.
  • Strong decision-making, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
  • Strong communication, presentation, influencing, and reasoning skills, including comfort speaking before an executive audience.
  • Creativity and ability to define sound and practical solutions.
  • Ability to take initiative and move projects and ideas forward with clarity.
  • Negotiation skills in high-pressure situations.
Responsibilities
  • Design and build large-scale distributed systems delivered as enterprise-wide, global-facing Platform as a Service or Software as a Service offerings.
  • Document complex solution architecture designs using appropriate modeling and diagramming techniques.
  • Identify and communicate technical issues and risks through root cause analysis.
  • Define sound and practical technical solutions.
  • Move projects and ideas forward with clarity.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with NoSQL technologies such as MongoDB and Redis.
  • Experience with Service Bus for Windows Server or Azure Service Bus.
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services.
  • Experience with the Cloudera Hadoop ecosystem.
  • Experience with Tableau.
  • An Enterprise Architecture certification such as EACOE or TOGAF.
  • Tax industry or financial services experience.

About the company

Cygnus Professionals provides information technology consulting, project delivery and professional staffing services. Its teams support enterprise clients with software development, data, cloud, infrastructure, quality engineering and other technology needs. The company can supply individual specialists or coordinate broader delivery work around client systems and transformation programs. Cygnus operates as a business-to-business technology services firm, connecting technical talent and consulting capabilities with organizations that need additional expertise or execution capacity. Its workforce brings together technical specialists, client delivery teams and business operations.

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