Solutions Architect (MultiCloud; Data Engineering, Data Architecture)

Sky Systems, Inc.

$120K — $150K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Hartford, CT
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in architectural and technical disciplines with major cloud platforms (GCP, Azure, AWS) and SaaS integration.
  • Solid experience in designing REST APIs for enhanced developer experience and systems integration.
  • Familiarity with Kafka for efficient messaging and streaming solutions.
  • Proficient in RDBMS and/or NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB), understanding their pros and cons, and data handling patterns.
  • Strong systems design experience with a disciplined approach towards complexity and challenges associated.
  • Adept at requirements analysis, estimation, design, and testing of systems and applications.
  • Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset necessary for cross-functional teamwork.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze and understand epic and feature assignments originating from the train architect.
  • Collaborate with the Product Owner and technical leads to refine requirements.
  • Engage with Solution Domain Leads for guidance on inter-domain solutions when needed.
  • Work with integration architects to produce detailed solution artifacts like designs and presentations.
  • Continuously enhance knowledge of business and system subject matter.
  • Utilize existing architecture patterns as well as create new ones for unique solutions.
  • Present solution designs to stakeholders for input and validation.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and skill enhancement.
  • Flexible work arrangements to promote work-life balance.
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and resources for innovative projects.
  • Collaborative and inclusive team culture with diverse contributions.
  • Supportive environment for Agile methodologies and practices.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Required Skills:
  1. Architectural/technical expertise with cloud especially GCP, Azure, AWS (native, cloud agnostic, container, etc offerings) and cloud/SAAS systems integration.
  2. Experience designing REST APIs that facilitate a strong developer experience or simplify systems integration.
  3. Experience designing systems that leverage Kafka for messaging/streaming.
  4. Experience with RDBMS and/or NoSQL databases (i.e. MongoDB). Understands the benefits and trade-offs of both. Familiar with normalization and denormalization, sharding, and other data-centric patterns
  5. Experience with the design and development of complex systems; employs a disciplined and rigorous approach
  6. Adept at requirements analysis, estimation, systems and application design, and testing
  7. Familiarity with popular Design Patterns.
  8. Excellent collaboration, influencing, and consensus-building skills. Ability to work with persons in all job functions (e.g. product, program, developers, etc).
  9. Excellent verbal and written communications
  10. Ability to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision. Self-directed
  11. A great team player, with demonstrable experience delivering superior software products via Agile methodologies
  12. Experience on an Agile team
  13. Experience with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies such as Java, JavaScript, Node.js, messaging queuing infrastructures, as well as cloud and on-premise infrastructure and services
  14. Experience with distributed computing architectures, including race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency control
  15. Meeting facilitation with stakeholders, partners and team


Desired Skills

  1. Knowledge of impending AI agent interoperability "standards"/approached (i.e. Model Context Protocol, Agent2Agent, etc.)
  2. Knowledge of Salesforce AgentForce.
  3. Contact Center technology expertise (Salesforce, Five9, etc.)
  4. A proven track record working as part of a team on large/complex systems
  5. Experience with SAFe Software Development Principles
  6. Experience with distributed caching solutions; understands the factors that enable effective caching
  7. Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps


Basic Solution Architect responsibilities

Receive epic/feature assignments and general direction from train architect.

Partner with Product Owner, BA and Development technical leads to refine/understand requirements.

Partner with Solution Domain Lead architects (if necessary) to seek guidance or vet solutions impacting other domains.

Collaborate with integration architect to deliver solution artifacts (sketch, ppt, etc.)

Continuously attain and refine business and systems subject matter expertise.

Leverage architecture patterns for the solution. Create them if covering new ground.

Present solution sketches to various stakeholders (SS architect team, Infrastructure SMEs, business, etc.) for review and feedback.

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