Solution Architect, SME

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Assess the existing mainframe and mid-range system architectures of clients, focusing on interfaces, data models, and batch processing frameworks.

• Perform ongoing operational analysis of client business processes.

• Recommend future-state business processes and architectural solutions based on industry best practices.

• Oversee the implementation of modern technical solutions while supporting design and solutioning activities.

• Utilize advanced mapping tools and software architectural analysis techniques to improve user experience.

• Work in conjunction with the client’s financial agent to create business workstreams.

• Generate technical drawings, detailed designs, and proof-of-concept solutions.

• Relay requirements to the financial agent oversight and development teams for agile story creation.

• Collaborate with partner organizations and development teams to ensure workflow alignment with federal financial, security, and compliance standards.

• Illustrate and present business workflows utilizing Microsoft Visio or other industry-standard tools.

• Formulate strategies for migrating legacy mainframe applications to contemporary server and cloud environments.

• Offer architecture-level insights for integration, performance optimization, and data migration.

• Develop and maintain technical documentation and architecture diagrams.

• Contribute to modernization roadmaps and data migration strategies.

• Guide development teams in implementing modern design patterns, cloud-native principles, and DevSecOps practices.

• Assist in the testing, validation, and deployment of new and reengineered applications.

• Play a role in crafting winning proposals and executing cloud-based solutions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of relevant experience.

• A decade of experience in enterprise application architecture, systems design, and implementation.

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

• Knowledge of mainframe technologies such as COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, and VSAM.

• Demonstrated experience with Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, Postgres, Tomcat/WebLogic, and Linux.

• Practical experience in modernizing or migrating legacy mainframe applications to distributed or cloud-based systems.

• Strong comprehension of system integration, data migration, and application interoperability between legacy and modern platforms.

• Experience using mapping tools to craft cloud-based solutions involving intricate applications, databases, and interfaces.

• A proven history of developing modernization strategies for hybrid environments that integrate mainframes with custom applications from various vendors.

• Capability to discuss mapping experience and tools used during interviews and exhibit relevant skills and experience.

• Outstanding communication, collaboration, and documentation abilities.

• Must be a US Person; US citizenship is not a requirement.

• Travel requirement is less than 10%.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages.

• 401K plan with company match.

• Competitive salary.

• Paid time off.

• Flexible work week.

• Medical plan options, some featuring Health Savings Accounts.

• Dental plan options.

• Vision plan options.

• 15 days of paid leave each calendar year for vacations, personal matters, and illness (typically applicable to new employees).

• 10 paid holidays annually.

• Paid leave for parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty purposes.

• Up to 160 hours of paid family leave within a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees.

• Short- and long-term disability benefits.

• Life insurance coverage.

• Accidental death and dismemberment insurance.

• Personal accident insurance.

• Critical illness insurance.

• Business travel and accident insurance.

• Recognition for an innovative culture.

• Military-friendly workplace.