Solutions Architect

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Summary:

As a Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for driving multiple customer solution design projects in parallel; This candidate will be responsible for translating overall conceptual solution to software framework and developing working prototype to prove the concept.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct business and technical discovery with customers; find novel solutions, architectures and use cases to help customers meet their objectives
• Provide robust recommendations for engagements while also identifying critical dependencies and gaps.
• Present proposals to senior government officials in a clear and compelling way; has a balance of business and technology acumen, including ability to articulate high- level technical solutions to business problems and to tie solutions to program success criteria.
• Recommend senior management on improvement areas
• Capable of independently applying a wide set of engineering disciplines for planning, design, analysis, coding, testing, roll-out and support of information systems architectures.
• Responsible for the designing of interface standards, quality assurance standards, performance standards, and cost-benefit analysis of modem state-of-the art information systems; analyzes available technologies and makes recommendations of technologies to use and how best to use them
• Design highly complex solutions with multiple applications with high transaction volumes.
• Create System Design Document to include detail software architecture diagram, logical and physical deployment views using UML
• Serves as the technical and technology expert supporting the crafting of the application architecture aspects of the solution, as well as supporting the implementation of the solution.
• Review proposed enhancements to validate feasibility and assists with scoping and estimating work.
• In coordination with others, monitor and analyze production performance, while looking for ways to optimize and scale existing solutions.
• Ensure strategies, standards, and architecture are consistent and well-integrated across products.
• Help developers to adopt new platforms through documentation, training, and mentoring

Required Qualifications:

• Typically requires a bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or relevant computer information systems degree with 10-15 years of experience
• 8+ years of full-lifecycle application development lead experience
• 8+ years of experience in IT Solution Delivery and architecture with deep understanding of industry patterns
• 6+ years of experience in building multi-tier and SOA and RESTful based applications using (applicable skill set such as J2EE, .NET, JSON)
• 5+ years of experience using Agile/Lean methodologies, continuous deployment, automated testing, and DevSecOps
• Experience developing systems utilizing AWS Cloud-native designs
• Demonstrated experience as a technical lead of a large-scale migration to a cloud infrastructure (AWS)
• Demonstrated experience in utilizing frameworks like Struts, Spring and Hibernate
• Experience on multiple application development projects with similar responsibilities
• Demonstrated experience architecting, building and deploying technical solutions that use multiple data stores targeting specific application use cases including multiple technologies including but not limited to SQL and noSQL databases
• Superior written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present technical details and interface with various groups such as project team, clients, and senior executives
• AWS Certifications
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) concepts & methodology

• Experience architecting or creating systems around Business Process Management Solutions (BPMS)
• Experience in developing business rules and rule flows using JBoss Drools.
• Experience in designing SSO solution using SAML, XACML protocols
• Experience in using flexible schema such as MongoDB
• Highly prefer candidates in eastern, central or mountain time zones
• Experience supporting US federal government customers.

Things to Know:

Salary Range

The proposed salary range for this role is $145,000.00 to $185,000.00 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. Karsun considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate's work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.

Third Party Resumes: Karsun does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Karsun and Karsun will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.

Clearance Information

This position requires the eligibility to obtain a security clearance. The Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office (DISCO), an agency of the Department of Defense, handles and adjudicates the security clearance process. More information about Security Clearances can be found on the US Department of State government website here: https://www.state.gov/m/ds/clearances/c10978.htm