Solutions Architect Job Plano area,Texas USA,IT/Tech

Are you a visionary Solutions Architect ready to make a real impact? We are on the lookout for a dynamic innovator to lead the design and deployment of transformative technological solutions. In this pivotal role, you’ll collaborate across teams to craft scalable, secure, and high-performance systems that shape the future of technology. If you’re passionate about pushing boundaries and delivering solutions that matter, this is your chance to elevate your career and drive meaningful change with us!

Responsibilities:

Oversee the solution architecture and design for key projects, delivering accurate estimates and coordinating with architects and designers across solution, infrastructure, and data disciplines to effectively address business challenges.
Collaborate with delivery teams, production support, and Shared Services partners (such as Quality Assurance, Infrastructure Engineering, and Reference Architecture) to ensure alignment of solution strategies and estimates.
Work closely with business stakeholders to identify problems, create new business capabilities, and design technology solutions that drive success, ensuring all solutions align with business requirements while emphasizing performance, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency.
Provide architectural guidance by collaborating with portfolio teams, IT departments, and external partners. Present strategies, incorporate feedback, and foster collaboration with cross-functional technical teams.
Embed within Scrum teams by engaging in daily standups and ceremonies, providing architectural direction, and guiding and mentoring technical teams through complex architectural challenges while ensuring alignment with best practices and project goals.
Continuously assess and recommend specific tools, platforms, and frameworks that meet evolving project needs, ensuring high compatibility and efficiency.
Promote and implement modular design principles to facilitate independent component development and testing, while consistently applying best security practices such as least privilege and data protection across all systems.
Conduct quality and security assurance, developing metrics to drive and maintain code quality standards, and ensuring adherence to automated code review processes.
Evaluate design options by creating high-level cost estimates for various architectural approaches, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and high-performing with a focus on cost-efficiency.
Design and review high-availability and disaster-recovery architectures, proactively identifying areas for improvement and remediating issues to meet project and enterprise standards.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
10+ years of IT experience, with at least 3 years as a developer and 3 years as a solution architect.
AWS Certified Solution Architect certification is strongly preferred.
TOGAF certification is a plus.

Experience:

Application.
Programming languages such as Java, Python, .NET, or similar. Java preferred.
RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and SOAP for interaction between applications and services.
Event streaming and messaging brokers like Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, AWS SNS and SQS, or ActiveMQ.
Batch Processing (e.g., ETL and Spring Batch).
Containerization, including Docker and Kubernetes.
Design patterns like MVC (Model-View-Controller), Strangler, and SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture).
API gateway and management tools like Apigee and Amazon API Gateway.
Domain Driven Design.
Integration platforms like Spring Integration are used to connect diverse systems.
Mobile app development frameworks (e.g., Ionic, Capacitor, React Native, Flutter, or Swift).
Workflow and process engines such as AWS Step Functions, Camunda, Floowable, and Pega.
Document management systems like Hyland Alfresco.
Content management platforms like Adobe AEM and a general eCommerce experience.
Testing tools like Selenium, JUnit, or TestNG create automated unit, integration, and performance tests.
Cloud and Dev Ops.
Architecture and detailed design of solutions using cloud platforms like AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
Dev Ops, including CI/CD…