Solutions Architect

Immediate Opening
Title: Solutions Architect
Location: Richmond, VA, United States (Occasionally onsite / Candidate must be able to come to Richmond, VA to pick up laptop)
Interviews: Webcam
Job Type: Contract
Job Duration: Approx. 12+ months (Possible longer extensions)
Client: Public Sector Direct Client
Tax Term: W2 or Corp to Corp

Job Description:

• Create overall application and solution architectures, component designs, and systems integration and implementations for a particular business solution.
• Lead efforts in defining, documenting, and estimating the following for enterprise applications.
• Capture requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, hardware and operating system environment, on- prem, hybrid and cloud topologies, interfaces with other systems, internal and external checks and controls, system inputs and output.
• Collaborate with other IT staff to assess business needs and requirements and translate them into automated solutions
• Produce relevant solution design artifacts including but not limited to technical estimates, conceptual, logical, and physical system designs, sequence diagrams, and data models
• Coordinate new system development to ensure it is consistent and well-integrated with existing application systems and COTS solutions
• Collaborate with Business areas and cross- functional Enterprise Architects to fully understand business needs and provide strategic consultation
• Partner with architects, other technical team members and to develop roadmaps and strategies to support agency KPIs
• Design/Implement Enterprise Security/technology Patterns
• Consult with teams as needed on initiatives and provide tactical direction as well as provide architecture considerations on legacy solutions

Qualifications:

• Experience with SAFe architecture and proven work experience with Agile/Scrum teams.
• Proven experience in developing enterprise and solution level architectural designs.
• Proven experience in overseeing the linking of cross-functional applications between disparate business units and systems.
• Experience with business and technical requirements analysis, business process modeling/mapping, methodology development, and data mapping.
• Competency with XML constructs and schemas.
• Confidence and experience with API protocols and schemas such as SOAP and REST.
• Strong understanding of end-user needs and requirements.
• C#, Web Services (WCF, Web API), jQuery, T-SQL, PL/SQL, etc.) within both on-premises and cloud environments.

• Hands-on experience with Angular / Blazor or any similar front-end technologies.
• Hands-on experience with project online API's
• Experience with Microservices architecture, Azure Architecture, Domain driven architecture.
• Experience with Azure native application development, Azure App Services, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Container instances, Kubernetes & Containers (Docker), Azure Integration Services (Logic Apps, API Management, Service Bus & Event Grid) ,Azure SQL Database, Azure Web Jobs, SQL Server IaaS, Azure Monitoring and Application Insights
• Knowledge and experience with configuration management and automation technologies such as Azure Devops, PowerShell, Terraform, Chef, and ARM Templates

Skill Matrix: Skill Required Amount of Experience Experience Experience in enterprise-level application design and integration Required 5 Years Experience in cloud applications (Azure Preferred) Required 5 Years Experience in SaaS (Software as a Service) architecture Required 5 Years Experience with integration architecture Required 5 Years Experience with Agile methodologies (SAFe and Scrum) Required 5 Years Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Required 2 Years Experience with Esri ArcGIS Nice to have 2 Years