Sr Solution Architect
The Judge Group Inc.

Job Info

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Location: McKeesport, PA
Description:
Role - Sr Solution Architect

Type: Contractual ( No Sub Vendor)

Location - Pittsburgh, PA or Strongsville, OH or Phoenix AZ

Type : Hybrid

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Evaluate requests for solution architecture services that have been submitted to have starting requirements and stakeholders identified.

2. Ensure that business outcomes / problem statement / requirements / use cases are adequately documented by requestor / Business System Analyst (BSA) / product owner

3. Review request against existing service offering matrix to determine Service Level Agreement (SLA)

4. Work with product organization to prioritize work against other competing priorities.

5. Creation of draft artifacts and begin investigation, exploration, technologies available and other constraints that may be involved.

6. Identify any additional stakeholders, both business and technology.

7. Engage relevant vendors, technology owners/SMEs, Enterprise Architecture, Security Architecture, product owners to ensure feasibly, best practices, standards, and expectations are met

8. Creation of UML use case diagram(s), component diagram(s), sequence diagram(s) including textual details for each step.

9. Creation of Business Process Mapping Notation (BPMN) context diagram, functional flow diagram, cross-functional flow diagram, and application configuration flowchart diagram.

10. Review and evaluate options and technologies available that could be used to satisfy the requested service offering

11. Know and understand many different technologies and how they relate to each other

12. Document assumptions, risks, and decisions

13. Ensure/document/confirm deliverables align to documented architectural guiding principles

14. Present deliverables in design review to all stakeholders

15. Obtain artifact approval from all necessary stakeholders

16. Articulate cost/benefit or trade-off analysis (e.g. guiding principles, technologies, etc.)

17. Formulate, document and defend new technology strategies

18. Perform peer review of other designs

Technical Skills:

Most critical:

Public Cloud infrastructure technologies. Deployments in the cloud. Kafka/streaming. Microservice.

• Working knowledge of Unified Modeling Language (UML) developmental modeling language

• Working knowledge of Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) diagrams

• Working knowledge of and experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, or similar container based systems

• Working knowledge of and experience with Kafka, MQ, or similar event or messaging based systems

• Working knowledge of Cloud-Native design principles, such as 12-Factor App

• Working knowledge of Microservice design principles

• Working knowledge of and experience with Public Cloud infrastructure and provisioning (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), such as Azure, AWS, GCP

• 1+ year experience with source code using git or similar distributed version control.

• 1+ year experience with technical documentation creation using Confluence or similar wiki systems.

• 1+ year experience with work assignment issue tracking using Jira or similar ticket systems.

• Prefer security certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CSSP), Certified Identity and Access Manager (CIAM) and Certified Identity Management Professional (CIMP).

Flex Skills:

Actimize is strongly preferred

Soft Skills:

• Extreme ownerships of assignments, delegations or observed needs or opportunities

• Utmost conscientiousness of tasks

• Clearly and effectively document and communicate technical details.

Contact: rmaurya02@judge.com

This job and many more are available through The Judge Group. Find us on the web at www.judge.com

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