Solution Architect II, Hub

The Solution Architect II operates as a leader and change agent within a Hub organization. This position will participate in the delivery of business value within Estes and contribute to the development of our technological vision in support of our business strategy. This role will partner with Solution Architects, developers, engineers, IT leaders and business stakeholders to identify future state architectures that enable business outcomes while evolving the IT landscape.

The Solution Architect II will identify and formulate architectural solutions to support their assigned IT Hub, in collaboration with other Solutions Architects & Engineers, to guide and evolve our overall development and technology practices.

• Lead development of solution architectures while understanding, and solving for the complexity of co-existing with, and transforming, legacy environments
• Develop and maintain a growth mindset to learn and master new technologies
• Partner with key stakeholders within IT and across the business teams to develop consistency in architecture, design patterns, frameworks, development methodologies, guidelines, standards and best practices.
• Digest and evaluate business requirements in order to design architecture in support of the desired business outcome.
• Communicate, improve and evolve architecture practices, principles, tools to enable IT and business value
• Develop innovative solution architectures that are cohesive, fit for purpose and ensure cost effective enablement of business capabilities. Create and share reference architectures used to deploy solutions, platforms and technologies using common frameworks and patterns.
• Mentor and coach IT staff on new technologies, best practices, frameworks, patterns and architecture approaches
• Identify, assess and recommend emerging technologies and industry trends that enable business outcomes, deliver value and offer simplification
• Ensure that solutions are focusing on reuse, reliability, standardization and simplification at a functional, enterprise, or operational level
• Solve complex business problems using a creative and pragmatic approach to problem solving and solutioning
• Comfortable and skilled in delivering technical and business presentations to an audience including business stakeholders, developers or engineers.
• Demonstrate the established “TRUCKS” cultural principles throughout the organization:
  Our IT organization is grounded in a shared commitment to core principles that shape how we work and deliver value. We uphold transparency by communicating openly, fostering trust, and ensuring visibility into decisions and progress. We design for resiliency, creating systems and processes that are dependable, adaptable, and able to recover quickly from setbacks. We prioritize understanding—of our business goals, our users, and the technologies we steward—to ensure alignment and relevance.
  
  We pursue continuous learning, staying curious and open to growth in a rapidly evolving landscape. We promote knowledge sharing to strengthen collective expertise and collaboration across teams. And we seek simplicity in our solutions, reducing complexity to make our work more maintainable, efficient, and user-friendly.
• Regular attendance is required.
• This is not an all-inclusive list of job requirements and/or duties and may not contain all mental and physical capabilities necessary to perform the job at all times due to circumstances. Operational, safety and other needs may require the employee to perform any and all other duties as assigned. Employees are expected, and must be able to perform all such duties and tasks.

• Required experience:
• Bachelor’s degree with emphasis in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• 2 or…