Senior Solution Architect

Responsibilities: Identify and resolve technical design challenges for our customers and squad. Champion new product requirements and features for development. Mentor other developers, define standards, best practices and help drive adoption. Lead the conversion of the vision into a comprehensive product and service. Benchmark application performance and continue to tune and scale to accommodate growth. Make high-level design choices and dictate technical standards, including software coding standards, tools, and platforms. Accountable for the application architecture of all product components. Guide multiple development squads and work streams at once to ensure successful delivery of projects. Evaluate and implement solutions and technologies for team adoption. Assess and communicate status, issues, risks, and deliverables to stakeholders. Be the “go-to” team member in your domain(s) for application design and patterns. Assist teams by hands-on coding including, but not limited to, the following: proofs-of-concept, code samples, and application infrastructure/frameworks.

Requirements: Expertise in a software and systems engineering. Expertise working closely with sales and marketing teams in cloud computing or related technical fields. Experience writing documentation, publications, and presenting solutions at conferences. Experience in the business technology market. Able to communicate complex technical concepts for broad audiences, empowering them with memorable and useful information. Able to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges. Understanding of the current state of infrastructure automation, continuous integration/deployment, security, networking, and cloud-based delivery models. Understanding of infrastructure as a service, micro services, and serverless architectures. 5+ years of direct experience working with a variety of technology systems, designing solutions, or developing business applications. 5+ years of complex, highly scalable application architecture experience. 2+ years of experience working in cloud based environments. Education (nice to have):AWS Certified Solutions Architect, at the Associate level TOGAF certification

Required Skills: Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), SCRUM Basic Qualification: Additional Skills: The team is building a completely new approach to how containers are used by the customer, reducing the need to be experts in Kubernetes and other container tools. Microsoft has just announced it is releasing a similar product, but the bp effort is ahead of them with the help of Amazon (Amazon has provided a large team of full stack developers to help with the project). The team that is being assembled will build out the Azure side of the product as the AWS solution will be the preview launch (Dec. 12th). This project will launch with an MVP and then have additional features added in the following year based on the already laid out roadmap and from customer feedback. This project is expected to last as long as the product is in production (read: years).