Solution Architect - Intermediate

Primary Talent Partners has a new contract opening for a Solution Architect - Intermediate to join a gas and electric company in Columbus, OH. This is a 12-month contract to start with the potential for extensions.

$77.35 - $88.35/hr; W2 contract, no PTO, no Benefits. ACA-compliant supplemental package available for enrollment.

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must be able to sit on Primary Talent Partners W2 without sponsorship.

• Serves 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.
• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Defines environment requirements for development, testing, quality assurance, user acceptance, training, production, and disaster recovery, as…