solutions architect.

What’s in it for you!
As a consultant with our client, you’ll receive:
- Highly competitive market hourly rates
- A 6 month contract with a strong probability of extension
- Remote interview process


Responsibilities
- Solution/system Design of System architecture and roadmap.
- Utilize architecture best practices and standards in design and build.
- Design and document re-usable and scalable frameworks and components.
- Provide first level effort and cost assessments to departmental initiatives.
- Coordinate & collaborate with counterparts in other departments to ensure technology solutions are built for the enterprise.
- Assist management in making technology decisions by weighing in on risk and ROI.
- Participate and contribute to yearly strategic initiative planning and funding discussions.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Domain Architects and Lead Engineer to bring projects from concept to implementation.
- Serves as primary technical solution design architect for one or more teams and their systems and integrations.
- Serves as primary decision escalation resource for addressing architecture and integration issues affecting their team.
- Continuously drive improvements in areas like performance, security, automation, quality, monitoring, and reliability of platforms.
- Develops and maintains current and future-state architecture models and ensures all documentation is kept up to date.
- Keeps up with industry best practices, technologies, architectures, trends, emerging technologies and develop proof of concept projects to validate new ideas.

Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience including at least 2 years at a retail/supply-chain organization in Solution Architect capacity.
- Well experienced in the Retail/Supply chain industry, familiar with application systems and business practices in this realm.
- Experience solutioning end-to-end full-stack applications, integration of SaaS and PaaS systems.
- Experience building technology roadmaps spanning 3-5 years.
- Experience in vendor evaluation and scoring of new technologies/tools.
- Excellent team player, ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Experience in mentoring technical team-members and providing technical leadership.
- Familiarity with architectural frameworks and patterns.
- Experience working in a SAFe ® /Agile environment.
- Experience contributing to multiple medium to large size initiatives simultaneously.
- Familiarity with streaming platforms (real-time data at massive scale like Confluent Kafka).
- Experience with AWS or other public clouds from a system design perspective.
- Experience working with containers, Docker, Kubernetes or other container schedulers.

Summary
If you are a Solutions Architect and the prospect of joining a dedicated team intrigues you, then this role with our high-profile client could be the perfect opportunity for you.

Apply below or reach out to your Randstad representative for more information.


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