The Solutions Architect serves as a motivational futurist, technology evangelist, and implementation planner for our clients and employees. The most valuable outcome of this role is that our stakeholders understand _how_ our solutions are the right size for their challenges while enabling them for several years of growth.
**Advanced to fluent proficiency in English is a must for this position.**
**OUTCOMES**
- **Ensure robust solutions to clients’ unique problems.**-
- **Right size. **Ensure all client solutions are appropriate for their current ecosystem, capabilities, strategic roadmap, and long term maintenance capacity.
- **Right cost. **Ensure that solutions are the right mix of build, buy, open source, modules, etc that maximizes the clients’ ROI.
- **Align stakeholders. **Produce deck slides, given presentations, and other activities to ensure stakeholders from the C-Suite to team developers are inspired and aligned on vision.
- **Manage high level implementation of client solutions.**-
- **Mature clients’ **_Architecture Roadmap_**. **Ensure every project has an Architecture Roadmap inclusive of diagrams, schemas, and other deliverables that is always _six months ahead_ of current activities.
- **Guide engineers**. Ensure engineering efforts focus on the right-size/right-cost solution to prevent over-engineering and developer spiraling.
- **Resolve escalations and misalignments**. Own and alleviate escalations about technology issues by conducting workshops, producing reports, and other necessary tactics.
- **Individual contribution.** Maintain 69+ monthly billable hours, including coding, program management, and other activities as needed.
- **Evangelize technology and future trends.**- **Account **_Technology Radars_**. **Ensure every account has a Technology Radar that unifies their ecosystem into a coherent strategy.
- **Authoring. **Author at least 8+ blog/LinkedIn articles per year.
- **Thought leadership. **2+ public contributions (blogs, open source commits, speaking, etc) per Production employee per year.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required
- Agree with our Corporate Values Statement.
- Believes in the company mission.
- Believes in the principles of open source.
- 8+ years experience programming.
- AWS Certified or able to achieve an AWS certification within 90 days.
- Familiar with ETL Processes and tools.
- Experience with various kinds of software documents including, data flow diagrams, data dictionaries, network diagrams, and UML diagrams.
Nice to have
- Experience with both backend and frontend programming languages.
- An AWS professional or Specialty certification.