What are the responsibilities and job description for the Solutions Architect position at Primary Services?
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Our Oil & Gas client is looking for a Solution Architect for a long-term contract in Houston, TX (Downtown, Hybrid, Local Candidates Only). You will be responsible for delivering high-quality solution architecture for business projects, programs, and products. You will ensure IT solutions are fit for purpose, align with the company’s technology direction, and maintain technical integrity and optimal total cost of ownership (TCO) throughout their lifecycle.
Key responsibilities include:
- Architecture Delivery: Own the architecture delivery, ensuring solutions are fit for both current and future needs. Accountable for high-quality architectural design and implementation
- Collaboration: Works closely with the relevant Lead Architects, IT Managers, and product/project managers to deliver, assure, and implement solutions. Lead teams of architects via squads, managing resources (if a line management position), and developing team members’ skills through coaching and delegation.
- Solution Development: Provide consultancy and assurance to projects, ensuring applications conform to company standards and reference architectures. Accountable for the end-to-end architecture of products, from development to deployment and hyper care.
- Integration and Data Management: Address business process, data, application, technical, and information security aspects. Ensure solution architecture is documented and conforms to the company standards, review low-level designs, and make significant design decisions. Manage data quality standards and ensure compliance with data policies.
- Technology and Innovation: Define technology services and components, conduct proof of concepts, and ensure solutions are future-proof. Maintain knowledge of compliance and regulatory requirements and embed security and privacy by design in projects.
Experience Required:
- 7-10 years in digital and IT
- 3 years of stakeholder management
- Substantial technology experience, preferably with a background in software engineering
- Focus on agile and product-focused delivery.
- Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies such as TOGAF
- Experience with architecture tooling like Bizz Design, PowerDesigner, and ArchiMate modelling standard.
Desirable Technical Skills:
- Azure Active Directory, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Storage, Azure Functions, Azure Kubernetes Service, CosmosDB, Azure SQL Data Warehouse
- Integration: Confluent/Kafka, API Management, Logic Apps
- Other Technologies/Platforms: - DataBricks, SAP HANA, Spark, Salesforce, API management, Multifactor authentication, Collibra, Purview
