Solutions Architect Job Description
Solutions architect
provides thought leadership to Big Data and Analytics experts both externally through events like AWS Summit Series and User-Groups.
Solutions Architect Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
An in depth understanding of project management concepts
Participate and co-ordinate development activities across London, New York and Singapore
Provide subject matter expertise on technical implementation of Logical Access Management components
Follow best practices and recommendations for Identity Management, and participate in improving them drawn from actual deployment experiences
In-depth experience with IDM including closed loop Remediation
Working autonomously whilst leading a matrix team through the pre-sale process and handover into implementation phase
Delivering the solution design into the business post contract stage
Challenging and validating proposed solutions and designs
Supporting the contract negotiation process
Leading the creation of an end to end delivery plan showing commitments from ADP and the Client
Solutions Architect Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Solutions Architect
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CCNP, AWS, AEEP, TOGAF, CSA, COBIT, ITIL, APICS, PMP, VCE
Education for Solutions Architect
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
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
Desired skills for solutions architect include:
Software development tools and methodologies
AWS services
Market segments
Customer base and industry verticals
Storage
DevOps
Security
Analytics
Concepts
Big Data
Desired experience for solutions architect includes:
Familiar with architecture principles and frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, Gartner, DOD )
Minimum 5+ years of experience in an Architecture/Design role, including experience in the Financial Services sector
Experience in developing and managing complex architecture deliverables
Strong analytical, problem solving, and business/technology/executive presentation skills
Experience with technology governance policies, standards, and best practices
Ability to perform critical evaluation and selection of architecture, technology, components, services and vendors
Solutions Architect Examples
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Solutions Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a solutions architect. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for solutions architect
- 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
Qualifications for solutions architect
- 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)
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of solutions architect. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for solutions architect
- 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
Qualifications for solutions architect
- 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
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of solutions architect. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for solutions architect
- 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
Qualifications for solutions architect
- 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
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a solutions architect. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for solutions architect
- 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
Qualifications for solutions architect
- 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
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of solutions architect. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for solutions architect
- 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
Qualifications for solutions architect
- 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