What are the responsibilities and job description for the Solutions Architect (Cincinnati) position at Ascendum Solutions?
**Candidates MUST be local to Cincinnati in order to be considered (hybrid in Blue Ash office 4 days/week)
6-month Contract TO HIRE- Candidates should be eligible to work for any employer in the United States WITHOUT needing Visa sponsorship
Requirements:
- Experience with Cloud/Azure implementations and architecture
- Experience working on point-of-sale, fuel, self-checkout, or payment systems.
- 3 years of experience working on high volume, internet scale solutions
- Any experience developing and/or architecting public cloud-hosted backend services
- Experience developing a scalable microservices architecture
- Proven knowledge of technology to support omnichannel experiences
- Demonstrated written, oral and presentation/public speaking communication skills; demonstrated interpersonal skills with an ability to communicate/work effectively with diverse groups of people
- Proven delivery of innovative results in previous roles and strong knowledge of industry trends and industry competition
- Demonstrated capability to build, mentor and maintain an inclusive team-based environment
- Proven knowledge of service-oriented architecture/Cloud
- Experience with data privacy, encryptions, PCI compliance, etc.
- Emphasis on utilizing design patterns and architectural principles to ensure the timely delivery of quality solutions
- Experience with C4 Modeling using PlantUML (PUML)
- Experience using Draw.io and Structurizr.
- Experience with Jira & Confluence
Key Responsibilities:
- Participate in the application technical design process
- Work with third-party providers on proper solution design and implementation
- Collaborating with internal teams, product, infrastructure, security, architects to align on solution integrations and direction
- Complete estimates and work plans as appropriate for design, development, implementation and rollout tasks
- Create technical system documentation and ensure that this documentation remains current throughout all phases of the SDLC
- Communicate timely status, including any potential risks/issues to the appropriate teams to ensure that assignment releases are managed appropriately and that completed assignments are of the highest quality
- Support and maintain applications utilizing required tools and technologies
- Build partnerships across the application, business and infrastructure teams
