Role: Sr. Data Solution Architect
Job type: C2C/Full time
Location: Hybrid (3 days per week at Knoxville, TN)
WHAT YOU WILL GET TO DO
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into architecture design.
- Set up, lead and facilitate conversations to perform discovery of technology and challenges.
- Document identified gaps and present to key stakeholders.
- Determine what requirements are needed to solve the business outcome and resolve gaps.
- Store and distribute gap analysis and findings associated with a technical solution.
- Guide and mentor Solutions Architects in performing discovery activities and documenting findings.
- Articulate solution requirements within an architecture diagram that is delivered to the organization’s enterprise architecture diagram standards.
- Take given requirements and document the business problem to solve and outcome to realize.
- Leverage a diagramming tool (i.e. Visio, Lucid) to compose a architecture diagram that complies to IT enterprise architecture standards.
- Derive within the architecture design the details around what falls into a business, data, network and security flows.
- Document and understand the disaster recovery requirements, including DR Tiers, Recovery Point Objectives, Recovery Time Objectives, Hosting Regions, Hosting Environments, and Hosting Strategy.
- Utilize advanced design methodologies and frameworks to address complex architectural changes.
- Present architecture designs to stakeholders for alignment and to the architecture review board for approval.
- Present the architecture design to IT and business stakeholders to align the business outcome and technical solution.
- Submit request (i.e. Jira) present to the architecture review board to gain cross-departmental approval of the technical solution.
- Genericize architecture designs to reference architecture and design patterns for continued reusability in enterprise architecture repository (i.e. Confluence and SharePoint).
- Present to the IT leadership team for any escalations.
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to executive-level stakeholders.
- Stay close to the teams on an ongoing basis to iterate architecture designs to be current, minimizing drift.
- Attend ongoing team meetings to stay in the know of any architecture changes that are needed.
- Streamline architecture updates and iterate the changes through the architecture review process.
- Support strategic planning and to determine the technical roadmap for technology solutions.
- Lead the development and execution of long-term technical roadmaps.
- Model behaviors that support the company’s common purpose; ensure guests and team members are supported at the highest level.
- Ensure all activities are in compliance with rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TEAM
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, or related field experience required.
- Proven experience of at least 5+ as a solutions architect or equivalent experience required.
- Required familiarity with design tools (e.g., Visio, Lucid, draw.io), Visio preferred.
- Proven experience in performing requirements discovery, gap analysis and presenting architectural designs.
- Effective communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms is required; AWS is required, Azure is preferred.
- Familiarity with integrations platforms is required; Mulesoft is strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with data platforms is preferred but not required; Databricks is strongly preferred.
Competencies
- Technical capability – possess a strong understanding of technology and modern architecture concepts (e.g., serverless compute, service-oriented architecture, infrastructure elasticity and scalability).
- Problem solving – possess the ability to gather and articulate the business challenge to be solved, as well as the solution statement that supports solving it.
- Communication – drive proactive, interpersonal communication skills are a must have to be effective in the hybrid work culture.
- Projects Management – possess the ability to manage 3-5 ongoing architecture projects alongside any operational work required.
- Continuous Learning – keeping updated with the latest industry trends and technology advancements.
- Mentorship – work to deliver thought leadership to other architects and share lessons learned and improvement feedback.
- Required location: Knoxville, TN area and required to be onsite 3 days per week at client location.
