Job Title: Solutions Architect
Location: Cleveland, OH
Job Type: Full-Time
About Us:
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Solutions Architect to join our dynamic team. If you are a strategic thinker with a strong technical background, exceptional problem-solving abilities, and a passion for designing and delivering high-impact solutions, we invite you to apply.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Solution Design: Collaborate with clients and internal teams to understand business requirements and design end-to-end solutions that meet technical and business objectives.
2. Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and guidance throughout the project lifecycle, from concept to implementation, ensuring the solution aligns with best practices and industry standards.
3. Architecture Development: Develop and document solution architectures, including system components, data flow, integrations, and security measures.
4. Technology Evaluation: Assess and recommend appropriate technologies, platforms, and tools to achieve optimal system performance, scalability, and maintainability.
5. Stakeholder Communication: Effectively communicate technical concepts and solution designs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including clients and project teams.
6. Risk Assessment: Identify potential risks and challenges in the solution design and propose mitigation strategies.
7. Collaboration: Collaborate closely with development teams, project managers, and other stakeholders to ensure successful implementation and delivery of solutions.
8. Quality Assurance: Establish quality assurance processes and guidelines to ensure the delivery of robust and reliable solutions.
9. Continuous Improvement: Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to drive innovation and improvement in solution design and delivery.
Qualifications:
Formal Education & Certification
• Bachelor’s Degree or foreign equivalent in related field or equivalent experience.
• Master’s Degree preferred.
• Professional training and/or certifications using Oracle, IBM, HCL, and Microsoft tools and technologies is a plus.
Knowledge & Experience
• 12+ years IT experience.
• 8+ years experience designing, developing, implementing middle-tier and distributed systems.
• 6+ years experience in enterprise and/or solutions architecture and architectural frameworks.
• Experience designing and developing solutions on IBM WebSphere Commerce/HCL Commerce.
• Strong working knowledge of architecture with the ability to analyze and resolve moderately complex, cross-system issues, and demonstrate an understanding of specific technologies (and their architectural connectivity).
• Experience in developing strategic solutions architecture plans, technology planning and execution, and policy development and maintenance.
• Knowledge of information processing, data modeling principles, data management practices, and system interaction patterns and interfaces.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze existing technical architectures and recommend and implement alternatives with regard to tools, technologies, and approaches to their use.
• Experience with virtualization, cloud computing, or container technologies.
• Knowledge of vendor software integration and interaction patterns.
• Knowledge of COTS evaluation principles and practices.
Preferred Attributes
• Experience with Search and Merchandising (Solr, Elasticsearch, or similar).
• Experience with Content Management (Adobe AEM, or similar).
• Experience with Order Management (IBM Sterling OMS, or similar).
• Experience with Product Information Management / Master Data Management (Stibo STEP, or similar).
• Experience with various key business and operational activities of a manufacturing and retail enterprise, including Sales and Marketing, Product Development, Identity and Access Management, Financial Processing, or Digital Workplace Management.
• Experience with defining, utilizing, and guiding the appropriate use of various data integration techniques (ETL, EAI, EII), including understanding the components within, capabilities of, and appropriate "fit to purpose" of Service Bus and Microservices Architectures.
• Experience with practices governing definition and design of Services and RESTful APIs.
• Knowledge of various legal and regulatory obligations such as PCI, SOX, HIPAA, or similar standards a plus.
• Knowledge of common testing methodologies, terminology and industry standards a plus.
• Certification or experience with enterprise architecture methodologies and frameworks, such as TOGAF, Zachman, or FEAF, is a plus.
How to Apply:
If you are excited about the opportunity to work on innovative projects and lead the design of cutting-edge solutions, please submit your resume and a cover letter outlining your qualifications and experience to luke@emeraldresourcegroup.com. Please include "Solutions Architect Application" in the subject line. We look forward to reviewing your application.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
