Senior Solutions Architect

Location: US Remote EST/CST Preferred

We are seeking a Senior Solutions Architect who is ready to play a crucial role in designing, planning and executing our product modernization plans, going from a monolith desktop application to a SaaS-based cloud-native architecture leveraging microservices and hosted in AWS. We are embarking upon a lift and shift migration which will serve as the starting point for modernization and are looking for an experienced, skilled, and effective solution architect who can help us succeed.

You will collaborate with stakeholders, peers, and cross-functional teams to ensure that our cloud-hosted products and services as well as the underlying infrastructure is scalable, secure, cost effective, and aligned with LBMH’s business objectives.

ECI’s home and building supply software suite (Spruce) is a fully integrated business management solution for small to medium sized businesses. It streamlines operations and drives growth. The software is cloud-based and completely integrated, from purchasing through to delivery.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and support target state architectures, reference architectures, and proofs of concept to guide the product development organization in achieving our modernization goals in AWS.
• Design services and solutions infrastructure in AWS using infrastructure as code with a strong emphasis on standardization and reusability.
• Lead and organize efforts on the architecture team to develop modernization plans, architectural runway, create proofs of concept, design cloud platform solutions, and answer key questions.
• Partner with engineering teams, product managers and the community of architects to identify patterns and platform enablers across the organization.
• Engage AWS enterprise support and account teams on AWS roadmap, feedback, technical, governance and architectural topics.
• Create presentations, white papers, training material, FAQs, etc. covering a wide range of AWS services, best practices, and solutions.
• Challenge existing architectures to improve security, cost, resiliency, performance and reliability.
• Participate in and contribute to architecture design reviews and communities of practice.
• Promote a culture of feedback loops, trust and partnership with our internal community.
• Promote a deeper understanding of the executing production architecture to address and optimize patterns, anti-patterns, and areas requiring agility for more rapid innovation.
• Promote strategic thought leadership in advancing product architecture tooling and operation models related to application portfolio modernization and tech debt that is visible and actioned.
• Ensure standards, principles, and tech stack are refreshed and effectively guide application modernization.
• Collaborate with architects, development, SRE, operations, and security teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of cloud solutions.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field of study.
• Thorough understanding of AWS infrastructure and services including but not limited to EKS, ECS, EC2, EBS, S3, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, API Gateway, ALB, Route 53, Transit Gateway, IAM, AWS Config, etc.
• Previous experience successfully modernizing a large-scale web-based software product using strangler pattern or similar approaches is a must!
• 8+ years software engineering experience with distributed applications in production environments.
• 5+ years of recent experience with .Net or .Net Core (C#)
• 5+ years’ experience architecting/developing/maintaining cloud solutions in virtualized environments.
• 5+ years experience with Python, Bash, Power Shell, GO or equivalent
• Advanced knowledge of the AWS services, with 3+ years’ experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS.
• 3+ years experience with building, orchestrating, and managing containerized workloads (AWS ECS/EKS, Docker, etc.)
• 3+ years with Azure Dev Ops, Git Lab or equivalent
• Knowledge of configuring monitoring solutions and the creation of dashboards (Data Dog, Dynatrace, App Dynamics, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry)
• Deep understanding of design patterns and modern software…