Job Solution Architect - Contract

The Solution Architect will provide technical leadership to ensure the integrity, scalability, and consistency of solutions throughout their life-cycle stages. The successful candidate will collaborate with stakeholders to align business goals with innovative and cost-effective technical strategies.

This is an initial 6 month contract, extendable up to 24 months.

Key Responsibilities:

• Document business drivers, client processes, and their alignment with organizational goals.
• Analyze business needs and recommend both technical and non-technical solutions.
• Translate business requirements into high-level design specifications.
• Design and document innovative, cost-effective, and operationally supportable solutions.
• Define the structure and interconnections of business processes, work groups, data, applications, user interfaces, infrastructure, and network topology.
• Develop solutions that address business, technical, and financial constraints.
• Evaluate IT operational limitations to propose adaptable and sustainable solutions.
• Assess the effort, risks, costs, and complexity associated with potential solutions.
• Research emerging technologies, vendor capabilities, and market trends to inform recommendations.
• Ensure alignment of solution architectures with enterprise standards, roadmaps, and strategies.
• Guarantee solutions meet objectives for availability, reliability, performance, scalability, maintainability, and security.
• Perform additional architecture-related tasks as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• At least 8 years of experience in technical IT roles within complex enterprise environments.
• 3+ years of experience in developing solution architectures for multi-tiered platforms.
• Expertise in Information Architecture principles, data management, data integration, and data quality tools.
• Proficiency in Dynamics CRM platforms and enterprise ETL tools.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service or Salesforce Service Cloud.
• Familiarity with Low Code platforms related to CRM solutions.
• 3+ years of experience architecting solutions involving multi-platform integration (SaaS, PaaS, competing technologies).
• Strong experience with cloud technologies and Azure architecture (NSG, Firewall, Monitoring, Key Vault, Security Controls).
• Knowledge of process re-engineering, requirements gathering, and middleware management.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and customer service skills.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into simple terms for diverse audiences.
• Adaptability to dynamic, evolving situations and effective teamwork.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with enterprise Content Management platforms.
• Familiarity with portal technologies, particularly self-service capabilities.
• Knowledge of Enterprise Business Intelligence tools such as Power BI.