Solutions Architect

Job Description:

We are looking for a Solutions Architect who is ready to leave coding in the hands of developers, but also don`t want to forget it; someone who is ready to take responsibility for the development of the technology solutions and mapping the business requirements to technical / system requirements to ensure that everything is going according to the plan.

As part of the job you will be required to:

• Sales engineering – helping different customers to implement their infrastructure in the developed systems.
• Gather key functional and non-functional requirements and architecture / design constraints from projects’ stakeholders and create respective documents.
• Plan architecture-related work, professionally present these plans and regularly update stakeholders regarding the progress.
• Work on solution architecture and design, which includes both infrastructure and software application components.
• Analyze technical and operational efficiency of existing solutions and provide respective analysis reports and proposals.
• Assess existing software implementation quality (architecture / design / coding) and provide respective reports.
• Participate in software prototypes building during projects’ start-up (including technology research and evaluation if necessary) and document prototyping results and respective technical proposal.
• Design and plan solution delivery in the most optimal way.
• Support applications’ development from technical perspective in construction and transition phases.
• Present all aforementioned work to internal and customers’ stakeholders.

Job Requirements:

General:

• 5+ years of experience in IT.
• Previous experience in architecting & designing enterprise-class software products.
• Deep understanding of applications` architecture and design principles / patterns.
• Solid knowledge and understanding of software development.
• Previous experience in consulting and working with international customers (considered as an advantage).

Good understanding in development frameworks (development practice is an advantage):

• Java and J2EE.
• JavaScript (any of: plain JS, Angular; JQuery, Node.js etc.).
• .Net (considered as an advantage).
• Mobile development (Android, iOS).
• Application security (including: data protection, authentication & authorization).

Databases:

• RDMBS.
• NoSQL.
• Cloud PaaS solutions.

Cloud Solutions:

• Good understanding of public cloud services (DNS, networking, application hosting services, data storage services, security).
• Previous experience to build project in top Cloud service providers is considered as an advantage (Amazon AWS or MS Azure).

Set of soft skills:

• Strong analytical skills.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills.
• Diagramming skills using word notations standards (e.g. BPMN, UML etc).
• Project Management skills: ability to lead a team, organize work and delivery process.
• Fluent English.
• Good understanding of Latvian and Russian.