What are the responsibilities and job description for the Solution Architect position at Epis Data Inc?
Job Details
Role : Solution Architect
Location Vancouver, BC or Seattle, WA (Hybrid Model)
Duration: 6 months
NEEF LOCALS ONLY WITH LOCAL DL
NEED ONLY AND USC
ROLE DESCRIPTION:
.Solution/system Design of System architecture and roadmap.
.Utilize architecture best practices and standards in design and build.
.Design and document re-usable and scalable frameworks and components.
.Provide first level effort and cost assessments to departmental initiatives.
.Coordinate & collaborate with counterparts in other departments to ensure technology solutions are
built for the enterprise.
.Assist management in making technology decisions by weighing in on risk and ROI.
.Participate and contribute to yearly strategic initiative planning and funding discussions.
.Collaborate with Product Management, Domain Architects and Lead Engineer to bring projects from
concept to implementation.
.Serves as primary technical solution design architect for one or more teams and their systems and
integrations.
.Serves as primary decision escalation resource for addressing architecture and integration issues
affecting their team.
.Continuously drive improvements in areas like performance, security, automation, quality,
monitoring, and reliability of platforms.
.Develops and maintains current and future-state architecture models and ensures all documentation
is kept up to date.
.Keeps up with industry best practices, technologies, architectures, trends, emerging technologies and
develop proof of concept projects to validate new ideas.
Qualifications, Skills, Experience and Personal Requirements:
.Bachelor s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent.
.10 years of software engineering experience including at least 2 years at a retail/supply-chain
organization in Solution Architect capacity.
.Well experienced in the Retail/Supply chain industry, familiar with application systems and business
practices in this realm.
.Experience solutioning end-to-end full-stack applications, integration of SaaS and PaaS systems.
.Experience building technology roadmaps spanning 3-5 years.
.Experience in vendor evaluation and scoring of new technologies/tools.
.Excellent team player, ability to work independently and as part of a team.
.Experience in mentoring technical team-members and providing technical leadership.
.Familiarity with architectural frameworks and patterns.
.Experience working in a SAFe /Agile environment.
.Experience contributing to multiple medium to large size initiatives simultaneously.
.Familiarity with streaming platforms (real-time data at massive scale like Confluent Kafka).
.Experience with AWS or other public clouds from a system design perspective.
.Experience working with containers, Docker, Kubernetes or other container schedulers.
Additional Manager Comments:
Candidates with the following will be prioritized:
.Industry experience in Retail and/or Upstream Supply Chain domain.
.Experience in data analytics, reporting.
.TOGAF or similar certifications.
.Proven leadership skills.
