Sr. Solutions Architect; Remote

Overview

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We believe in finding the best talent. Remote roles can sit in select states; relocation is not provided. Employees within a 90-minute radius of our Oak Brook, IL headquarters may be subject to in-office guidelines. This information is provided for context about the role location and expectations.

The Senior Architect will report to the Director, Architecture in the Technology Department. This role involves working closely with engineers and teams on engineering choices and alignment with enterprise engineering and architecture vision. The incumbent will:

• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise methodologies and techniques, including standards and guidelines for enterprise-wide use in technical management and systems of process development.
• Develop specifications for new products/services, applications, and service offerings.
• Provide technical oversight and architecture/engineering solutions to large, strategic, complex systems and application development projects, usually at the product level.
• Apply professional concepts to develop resolutions to critical issues and broad design matters.
• Be recognized as a thought leader and advance the craft of architecture and engineering within the organization.
• Design and develop architecture (integrated process, methodology, framework, software/applications, data, information, and technology) for scalable solutions aligned with enterprise direction and standards.
• Partner with Product Owners and engineering teams to align technical design and strategy with the product roadmap.
• Prototype complex, cross-platform business solutions to validate newer technologies.
• Review and ensure major architectural designs are consistent, maintainable, flexible, and cost-effective.
• Collaborate with application and infrastructure design architects to provide guidance for development and releases.
• Actively participate in architecture and engineering activities and contribute to the hands-on implementation of technology.
• Share expertise to ensure teams continually improve and learn to meet current and future engineering needs, including Azure hybrid cloud deployments with AKS and Azure Public Cloud.
• Design and provision Dev/Test/Prod infrastructure as code using Azure CLI, Power Shell, and Terraform.
• Define architecture for high availability, data redundancy, data loss prevention, site recovery, and resilience.
• Define and implement architecture for high throughput and scale with capacity planning and load balancing strategies.
• Design and implement provisioning of production-grade Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), Azure Container Registry, NGINX Ingress Controller, and related components.
• Implement security architecture to ensure data security at rest and in transit, application security, key management, identity management, authentication, and authorization.
• Hands-on implementation of log analytics and monitoring Architecture using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and third-party tools such as Datadog.
• Automate infrastructure, applications, and software-defined networking through CI/CD pipelines and related tooling.
• Other duties as assigned.

Additional Interview Requirements: As part of the evaluation process, candidates who progress beyond the initial screening will be required to complete a formal technical assessment to validate coding proficiency and technical competency.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• Preferred
  
  C…