Solutions Architect - Remote

- Competitive market rates
- Long-term contract with ability to extend

Responsibilities
• Document the business drivers, client area processes, and how those processes
contribute to the achievement of the area’s business goals
• Analyze the business needs of clients and stakeholders to propose potential solutions both technical and non-technical
• Lead the translation of business requirements into high-level design specifications
• Design and document cost effective, innovative and operationally supportable solutions
• Document the structure, connections, and relationships of business processes,
organizational work groups, data, applications, user interfaces, applications interfaces, infrastructure, and network topology
• Design solutions that recognize and adapt to the business, technical, and financial
constraints
• Develop solutions that recognize IT operational limitations and opportunities
• Document the effort, risk, costs, and complexity of potential solutions
• Research and write discussion documents on such topics as emerging technologies,
vendors, functionality and reliability of products, and service offerings
• Review proposed solution architectures and ensure they align with overall enterprise
architecture roadmaps, standards, designs, and strategies
• Ensure solution architectures meet business objectives for availability, reliability,
performance, scalability, maintainability, manageability, and security


Qualifications
• Minimum of eight (8) years of experience working in technical Information Technology roles within complex enterprise environments.
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience developing solution architectures on projects across n-tiered platforms .
• Expert knowledge of Information Architecture principles and techniques, data
management, data integration and data quality platforms and tools.
• Expert knowledge and experience in Dynamics CRM and Platforms.
• Expert knowledge in at least one enterprise ETL tool
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service and /or experience with Salesforce Service Cloud CRM Platforms.
• Experience with Low Code platforms associated with above CRM solutions.
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience working architecting solutions involving complex integration scenarios (multi-platform, competing technologies, SaaS and PaaS, Software as a Service).
• Experience working with Cloud technologies.
• Knowledge of Azure Architecture (NSG, Firewall, Monitoring, Subscriptions, Key Vault, Security Controls, Authentication).
• Knowledge of process re-engineering principles, requirements gathering, and middleware management
Ability to translate complex technical concepts into simple non-technical terms for various audiences
• Ability to adapt to change in dynamically evolving situations
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Excellent customer service skills and communication skills
• Excellent problem solving skills


Summary
If you are an experienced Solutions Architect looking for your next project, apply today or reach out to your Randstad representative!

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