Solution Architect

Position: Solution Architect | 1065862

• Eight years of Information Technology experience

• Eight years of Information Technology experience

OUR GOAL:

Treat our consultants and clients the way we would like others to treat us!

Columbus, Ohio client has a contract-to-hire opportunity for a Solution Architect who will serve as the architecture lead and primary technical design authority for assigned projects and initiatives. Owns the end-to-end solution design from discovery through implementation and transition to operations. Facilitates architecture discovery, technical design workshops, and solution review sessions.

What are the first projects this person will support?

• We're implementing a SaaS project information management system for our major construction area standardizing project management across the various companies within the organization. This would be a new implementation with integrations to multiple applications both on premise and cloud based.

What technologies will they work with most?

• Integration - Mule Soft, SAP, Salesforce, Ariba, Various other applications

Where does the role need the greatest technical depth? Application/integration architecture, cloud/infrastructure, or broad ownership across all of those?

• Broad ownership across both those areas as we implement SaaS solutions with integrations to on premise and cloud systems. On premise integrations with cloud based solutions. Standing up cloud environments. Standing up on premise environments, etc.

How hands-on do they need to be? Will they primarily own designs and guide delivery, or also configure systems, build proofs of concept, write code, and troubleshoot?

• Primarily own designs and guide delivery. The capability to be hands on would be a plus!

Responsibilities:
Solution Delivery Leadership

• Evaluates solution alternatives and recommends approaches based on business value, risk, cost, complexity, maintainability, and supportability.
• Ensures architectural decisions, dependencies, risks, assumptions, constraints, and exceptions are identified and communicated.
• Ensures delivered solutions can be effectively implemented, operated, maintained, and supported.

Technical Discovery and Business Translation

• Participates in business workshops and project meetings to identify stated and unstated technical requirements, dependencies, constraints, risks, and solution opportunities.
• Translates business processes, objectives, requirements, and decisions into solution components and technical requirements.
• Recognizes when business decisions create implications for integrations, data, security, environments, infrastructure, licensing, performance, support, or regulatory compliance.
• Asks probing questions, challenges incomplete assumptions, and identifies when additional technical specialists must be engaged.
• Explains technical options, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations in language appropriate for business and technical audiences.

Solution Design Documentation

• Owns the development, maintenance, and approval coordination of Solution Design Documents for assigned initiatives.
• Produces architecture artifacts such as system context, application, integration, data flow, environment, deployment, and network diagrams.
• Documents design decisions, scope, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, risks, exceptions, unresolved items, and ownership.
• Maintains traceability between business requirements, non-functional requirements, architecture decisions, and solution components.
• Ensures designs contain sufficient detail to support implementation planning, security review, provisioning, testing, deployment, and operational transition.
• Updates the solution design when requirements, implementation decisions, or technical conditions change.

Application and Integration Architecture

• Designs solutions involving new and existing applications, SaaS platforms, cloud services, on-premises systems, and third-party technologies.
• Defines application interactions, integration patterns, data exchanges, and dependencies across the end-to-end solution.
• Applies approved API, middleware, event-driven, managed file transfer, batch, and data integration patterns.
• Evaluates integration and interoperability needs across cloud, on-premises, and partner-hosted environments.
• Ensures application and integration designs align with approved enterprise standards, reference architectures, and target-state direction.
• Identifies opportunities to reuse existing capabilities, reduce unnecessary duplication, and support application rationalization objectives.

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