TECH LEAD/SOLUTION ARCHITECT

This is a remote position.

ROLE: TECH LEAD/SOLUTION ARCHITECT

LOCATION: REMOTE

DURATION: 6+ MONTHS

Our list of skills has expanded. 

We are looking for a unicorn. 

We are in need of someone with solution architect skills but also enough knowledge and experience to lead technical delivery teams. 

Specific technologies that are required is knowledge of Azure, Power Platform, DevSecOps (GitHub) and cloud solutions, PAAS. 

Here's a list of desired skills and responsibilities.

Job Description:

This role will be responsible for providing technical leadership in the design, documentation, and review of technology solutions that meet the business and IT needs of the organization.

This individual will also be responsible for providing technical leadership for projects and will be accountable for the end-to-end solution and delivery.

Individual will be the focal and escalation point for all -technical delivery issues on these efforts. 

Must have experience with PaaS providers such as AWS and Microsoft Azure and knowledge of supporting systems within cloud infrastructures.

Role drives collaboration with stakeholders including ITS teams, technology partners, business customers, and vendors to ensure that the participants are effectively communicating and aligned on

technical deliverables.

In addition, role will not have direct reports but does lead cross-functional technical resources to deliver on desired outcomes.

For projects, the role will be responsible for technical oversight of the design to ensure adherence to enterprise standards, reduction of complexity, reusability, removal of contained technologies from

designs and cost effective/ cost reductions for proposed design solutions.

Other responsibilities include leading pre-project consulting and estimation efforts, implementation planning, development oversight, development, deployment activities, and support transition.

The role will work closely with Project Managers and other technology stakeholders to ensure all technical deliverables are carefully planned, staffed, tracked, and completed on time with high quality.

Architectural Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the architectural design (Solution and Data) and ensures compliance of solutions to Enterprise Architecture Principles and Technology Architecture Patterns.

• Develop tactical plans to execute strategy

• Accountable for technical delivery for assigned projects (Solution and Data).

• Leverage the current and approved technology portfolio, enterprise architectural standards, and established patterns to create solution and data designs that deliver the required business capabilities.

• Collaborate with other architects, developers, and engineers to create synergies and drive technology reuse within and across projects.

• Collaborate with BU IT management and business stakeholders to help gain consensus and drive decisions required for projects and/or initiatives.

• Approval of detailed technical designs and vendor technical designs to

o Ensure the adherence to enterprise standards

o Reduce complexity

o Increase reusability

• Drives down costs and complexity by using enterprise standards

• Designs solutions that meet the best interest of multiple stakeholders including those of the project and enterprise level

• Designs solutions that leverage enterprise tools and have reusable components and services

• Works with business users to reduce technical complexity introduced by business requirements

• Ensures designs meet business requirements

• Provide recommendations that yield efficiencies in technology support costs and improve performance while meeting customer requirements.

• Provide leadership and mentoring to less experienced associates.

• Translate highly technical problems in a manner that can be understood in business terms to a variety of audiences including project managers and business executives.

• Present recommendations and solutions clearly and concisely and can focus on key points to portray the intended message or purpose.

• Driving desired outcomes and decisions through trust and influence