Digital Solution Architect

STRATEGIC STAFFING SOLUTIONS (S3) HAS AN OPENING!

Strategic Staffing Solutions is currently looking for a Digital Solution Architect for a contract opportunity with one of our largest clients located in Charlotte, NC!

Title: Digital Solution Architect

Location(s): Charlotte, NC - Hybrid schedule

Duration: 10+ Months

Role Type: W2 contract engagement

Job Description

Responsible for driving the strategic direction for Digital application development and delivery to the Cloud. This includes working with a small team of Solution architects, designing technology approaches that modernize our application stack and enabling our Agile teams to deliver with quality and speed.

DUTIES:

Accelerate our ability to Build & Migrate applications and workloads to the Cloud

Work with a team of Digital Solution architects & CoP's/CoE's

Architect and design C4 artifacts throughout the entire Digital space including Cloud, Web, Mobile, AI, API, SaaS, and COTS products

Create technical designs (Activity Diagrams/Sequence Diagrams, API service specifications and message models) through a close partnership with Enterprise Architecture, Application Product teams, Infrastructure teams and other support teams across enterprise

Provide technical leadership and guidance during development, testing and delivery of features

Experience leading and influencing individuals at multiple levels, encouraging the establishment of high performing and self-sustaining cross-functional teams

Review business and non-functional requirements to capture and understand project/product requirements

Challenge the status quo to breakthrough legacy thought processes, and drive technology forward to match best-in-class Cloud technology organizations

Ability to be flexible and support any aspect of the Digital organization on demand, including product, development, delivery

Knowledge of industry-leading application trends, and help development teams incorporate modern approaches into Digital application roadmaps

Provide expertise and feedback into Agile Operating Model, ensuring that methodology enables all aspects of our technology strategy

REQUIREMENTS:

5-7+ years of experience designing, developing, and leading web applications

Leading Product teams to the Cloud (Terraform, S3, Lambda, Kinesis, Athena, EC2, EKS, EMR)

Experience designing and delivering applications using AWS, Azure, SaaS

Architecting complex Big Data/AI/ML Analytics product migrations to Cloud (AWS)

Prior success as an engineering working on challenging problems and world class digital solutions

Experience using Terraform (CI/CD) to ensure high quality and repeatable deliverables of software products, including delivery of infrastructure as code

Architecting Enterprise-grade, highly available Products with Real-Time Streaming (Kafka)

Proven ability to multi-task and contribute on several concurrent projects and initiatives

Experience managing and coaching other IT Architects and Lead Engineers as well as peers

Significant experience on multiple SDLC methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall)

Experience with externalizing APIs for 3rd party consumption

AA w/ 5 years experience -or- 7 years experience in technology architecture and/or leadership experience

BS / MS / PhD in in Computer Science, Math or related engineering fields or equivalent practical experience

The S3 Difference

The global mission of S3 is to build trusting relationships and deliver solutions that positively impact our customers, our consultants, and our communities. The four pillars of our company are to:

Set the bar high for what a company should do

Create jobs

Offer people an opportunity to succeed and change their station in life

Improve the communities where we live and work through volunteering and charitable giving