Solutions Architect Job Description
Solutions Architect Duties & Responsibilities
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Solutions Architect Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Solutions Architect
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Education for Solutions Architect
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Employers hiring for the solutions architect job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technical, Education, Business, Math, Mathematics, Information Technology, Information Systems, Design
Skills for Solutions Architect
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Desired experience for solutions architect includes:
Solutions Architect Examples
Solutions Architect Job Description
- A good knowledge of relational databases (SQL Server preferred)
- Evidence of documenting and analysing complex business processes
- Ensure solutions conform to best practice design principals and meet capacity and resilience functional requirements unique to GPS
- Architect and implement complex technology solutions
- Create highly professional, post-sales documentation in accordance with Sovereign standards
- Provide knowledge transfer expertise as required to customers
- Interface with sales and pre-sales to help with technical validation and/or project scoping
- Help maintain the lab environment in support of pre and post-sales efforts
- Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the primary solutions represented
- Maintain vendor certifications and industry knowledge relevant to Sovereign’s solution set
- 3-5 years of work experience with Pega Systems Rules Process Commander
- Candidate must demonstrate and must be competent to Lead a group of individuals
- 5+ years product management experience in a technological industry
- Typically requires BS, CS or equivalent
- 10+ years’ experience developing rich applications with HTML/CSS/JS Toolkits, jQuery UI, Bootstrap, Font Awsome
- Comfortable with Object Oriented JavaScript Frameworks (Prototype JS, MooTools, Dojo)
Solutions Architect Job Description
- Internal meetings with active future stakeholders on delivery model to ensure solution delivery maximizes expected outcomes
- Supporting the creation of the industry solutions strategy, business case creation (including ROI), development and roll-out of solutions
- Partnering cross functionally with Marketing, Platform, Product, LOB leaders to align solutions
- Initiate project scope documentation, statements of work, technical specifications, and business requirements related to customer engagements
- Establish and oversee development and usage of best practices to continually drive incremental value and return on the customer’s investment
- Contribute to organizational process improvement, including processes related to developing use cases, knowledge management
- Collaborating with stakeholders across cross functional teams to conceptualize potential solutions
- Work closely with product management and system architects to identify areas where a modular approach can be taken to build solutions of varying needs and different levels of customization from a platform offering
- Assesses, consults and designs connected lighting solutions and services offering
- Advances the use of connected lighting solutions and applications as a service that adds value for clients
- Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills ability to present and discuss information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others, and gains understanding
- Extensive experience with service oriented architectures (SOA), enterprise service bus (ESB) technology, business process management (BPM), and document management
- Experience with client side MVC vs
- Minimum of five years of leadership experience in data design and administration, architecture, and reporting
- 5-8 years of experience working in a Solutions or Application Architect capacity providing end-to-end design for enterprise environments, ideally with a strong integration and development background in Java
- Excellent relationship management skills to build strong vendor relationships, leveraging this relationship to gain knowledge of how other companies are leveraging technology to gain a competitive advantage
Solutions Architect Job Description
- Responsible for technical sales cycle working closely with Account Executives/Sales Team, with a focus on leveraging HP systems and storage portfolio
- Provide high level product demonstrations, facilitate proof-of-concepts
- Considers and evaluates new and existing technology to design and build tiered business applications that meet business challenges without disrupting or generating conflicts within the existing computing environment
- Examines the existing applications seeking to make improvements in workflow and to expand/enhance the use of existing implemented technology for greater efficiency
- Drives the technological landscape of the environment forward to meet the business challenges and provide solutions that improve workflow while minimizing managerial overhead and cost escalations
- Creates applications used by departments throughout the facility and outside business units
- Manages project based work direction within the Systems Applications group by managing deliverables and project direction while working with Management to assign appropriate resources for each project
- Lead deployments and retain ownership for the overall planning, coordination and delivery of our SAAS platform for sophisticated, multi-channel retailers
- Run multiple technical projects and/or implementations simultaneously
- Work closely with internal cross-functional teams including Engineering, Client Success, Strategy and Product
- Strong knowledge and experience with Agile Methodology, PL/SQL, UNIX Operating System/Scripting/Commands, JAVA/JSP/Servlet/Spring technologies, XML, HTML, WebSphere
- Thorough knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle methodologies (both Waterfall and Agile) including design, construction, testing, implementation and support of solutions that are delivered on time and within budget
- 7-10 years of experience working in a Solutions or Enterprise Architect capacity in an enterprise environment
- Experience in working with large distributed teams in a highly dynamic environment
- Experience in general architecture, operations, and deployment methodologies and techniques
- Develop system application level architecture that is consistent with the architectural framework and methodologies established by the VA Enterprise Architecture
Solutions Architect Job Description
- Collaborate with other architects, developers and business clients to develop enterprise grade software
- Enforce user interface guidelines and standards
- Estimate an delegate tasks for larger projects
- Facilitate the success of projects
- Assist in setting the roadmap for the future technology stack
- Consults and contributes with the Sales Team for client assessment, needs analysis and client meetings (client-facing role) while evaluating each opportunity for alignment with XO capabilities and business policy
- Work independently to evaluate a customer’s network and web architecture and deliver the appropriate integration solution
- Propose technically feasible solutions and work closely with customers and pre-sales teams to implement customer projects
- Work closely with Account Management, Sales professionals, engineering, product development and Customer Care to resolve technical issues that arise during customer trials or integrations
- Identify new product features and during integrations and communicate those features to product development
- Strong mobile application development experience
- Understanding of the Diagnostic and/or Coding processes
- Must be highly competent with Windows, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, technical aptitude required
- Significant experience with client business relationship development and ability to provide thorough business applications analysis with financial justifications to clients
- Knowledge and expertise in understanding Information Lifecycle Management (physical and digital)
- Ability to take complex customer problems and create compelling frameworks/ solutions
Solutions Architect Job Description
- Develop and deliver a great product demonstration
- Understand customer needs and translate them to current (and potential) features
- Answer technical questions about Resin.io (and related technologies) in complete, accurate and timely fashion
- Providing customers with informed opinions about implementing and working with Resin.io
- Work with our sales team to build out account strategy and planning
- Represent Resin.io at field events such as conferences, seminars
- Remain an advocate for customers at all times
- Maintain technical sales collateral such as demos, presentations, positioning documents etc
- Help hire and train future team members
- Align professional services solution architecture with Company's strategic direction by collaborating with other architecture teams and technology leaders
- Able to define high level solutions and system architectures and understand how various components of the architecture interact
- Ability to communicate with business stakeholders, understand businesses pain points, requirements and translate these into winning solutions
- Experience with multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments across various domains
- Able to analyze other developers code using basic reverse engineering techniques
- Experience in conducting code reviews
- Experienced in understanding and documenting functional and technical requirements, able to create and deliver compelling presentations