USA Marketing Jobs: Solution Architect

Thursday 18 August 2011

Hi,

Duration: 12 Months

Location: Greensboro, NC

Rate: DOE

Job Title: Solution Architect

Contract through EOY 2011 and likely extended.

TOP 3 skills:

1) 3+ years of Architecture experience (Overall 10+yrs in IT roles) (6+ yrs in a specific technology area J2EE)

2) Advanced experience in at least 1 of 5 areas: SOA, Client Tier technologies, Business to Business, Workflow/Process Mgmt, and Enterprise Rules

3) Strong leadership abilities and communication skills (experience interfacing with CIO and executive leadership)

Description:

Solution Architects are responsible for defining the technical vision within and across products and enterprise domains and assuring the vision aligns with defined business objectives.
Solution Architects act as a bridge between the business subject matter experts and technology implementers.
This role is responsible for assuring the technical vision is realized through guidance, mentoring and governance of application development teams.

Experience Level Description:

The experience level is defined as having 10+ years in the IT space and 6+ years in the specific technology set they are recruited for.
Resources at this level would be expected to take on leadership roles across multi-functional teams.
A Solution Architect will display excellent oral and written communication skills and posses the ability to speak and listen effectively.
This resource will be skilled at facilitating effective meetings and distilling the information delivered into a vision that can be interpreted by technical and non-technical resources.
Solution Architects exhibit a high level of professional flexibility and volunteer innovative new ideas

Responsibilities:

Work with Business Units and Lead Software Engineers to review business drivers, needs and strategies and understand the implications to application architecture.
Solution Architects have the ability to execute hands-on development of complex components and systems
Establish traceability processes between requirements and detailed application design
Ensure all technical architecture deliverables are consistent with standards
Provide support / guidance to the development teams during the analysis, development, and testing processes
Provide expert knowledge of application architecture, and consult business and technology teams when application architecture knowledge is needed
Creativity and ability to think outside-the-box while defining sound and practical solutions.
Comprehensive understanding of all aspects of architecture-based SDLC and its deliverables; 4+1 Architecture Views.

Experience:

Experience in logical architecture (business entities, data flows).
Experience in process architecture (functional verticals, processes, services).
Experience in implementation architecture (components, classes, application frameworks, technologies).
Experience in data modeling techniques and knowledge and applicability of various normal forms
Broad experience in Enterprise Java-based systems
Service oriented architecture/reusable component driven design
Enterprise security patterns

Advanced experience in one or more of the following domains is a plus

Best Regards,

Kumar Varada

Surya Systems Inc.,

One Neshaminy Interplex Suite 101 Trevose, PA 19053

Tel: 215-780-0875(Direct) || Fax: (888) 505-0368 ||

Email: varadak@suryasys.com; Gtalk: kumar.suryasys