Sr. Solution Architect
Chicago, IL
12 Months
Contract
Skype + F2F
MUST HAVE:
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
• 15+ years relevant experience in technical leadership and/or technology consulting on large enterprise projects
• Multiple projects working at an Architect level with an Architect title
• Knowledge of Agile processes (Scrum preferred)
• Experience designing and building large-scale, distributed systems delivered as Enterprise-wide, global-facing PaaS or SaaS offerings.
• Experience with large scale migrations to Azure
• Experience with SOA and/or micro services-based architectures.
• Experience with documenting complex solution architecture designs • Proficient in ability to document designs using modeling and diagramming techniques appropriate for the required context.
• Hands-on experience and solid understanding of the following technologies: • C#/.NET 4.5+
• Web API
• SQL Server 2014+
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Experience with a message broker / service bus technology
• Azure
• Knowledge of Domain Driven Design
• Able to identify and communicate issues/risks applying technical and root cause analysis skills
• Self-motivated and proactive
• Possess strong decision making, problem solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication, presentation, influencing, and reasoning skills • Comfortable speaking in front of an executive audience
• Creativity and ability to think outside-the-box while defining sound and practical solutions
• Desire to take the initiative, moving projects/ideas forward with clarity
• Adept negotiation skills in high-pressure situations
NICE TO HAVE:
• NoSQL technologies, such as MongoDB and Redis
• Service Bus for Windows Server / Azure Service Bus
• AWS
• Cloudera Hadoop ecosystem
• Tableau
• Enterprise Architecture certification, such as EACOE or TOGAF
• Tax industry / financial services experience