Our client is a national leader in the wholesale mortgage industry with a focus on servicing the independent agent community with World Class service and developing software that gives the company an edge in the marketplace. The company has aggressive growth targets which are creating a demand for talented individuals to join their IT organization & support multiple lines of business. They are hiring a Solutions Architect to perform as a thought leader, collaborate with and across functional teams to create systems, implement frameworks and libraries, as well as, research new technologies. Build architectures & provide prescriptive guidance across network, storage, operating systems, virtualization, RDBMS & NoSQL databases, data analytics, machine learning, mid-tier technologies that include application integration, in-memory caches, and security. This is a Permanent Hire Opportunity.
Responsibilities:
- Define and oversee enterprise integration strategies
- Design and develop extensible enterprise systems and frameworks (30-50% development)
- Establish and enforce technology standards, including but not limited to best practices, patterns, processes, frameworks, and tools
- Identify opportunities to create reusable components
- Experience with RFP processes including presenting and buy-in for tools (advocate)
- Technical Evangelist. Educate, mentor and train engineers across all disciplines (hands-on)
- Strong understanding of application architecture to suggest tool/process optimization
- Estimate and delegate tasks for larger projects
- Collaborate with other architects, developers and business clients to develop enterprise grade systems
- Own the overall technical roadmap in collaboration with Architecture, Development, Release, QA and other teams
- Recommend, drive adoption, and ensure future proofing of frameworks and COTS tooling
- Ability to lead cross-departmental collaboration on strategic initiatives
Experience:
- 7+ years design & implementation experience with distributed applications (.NET stack required)
- 5+ Years of experience using web based technologies (ASP.NET, JavaScript, CSS)
- Relational database experience (SQL, Oracle)
- Experience developing enterprise grade systems using enterprise design & integration patterns
- Ability to work with limited guidance in a team environment
- Experience establishing coding standards
- Great oral and written skills with prior liaison and collaboration experience with senior leaders
- Communicate complex technical issues and solutions in a clear, simple and understandable way
- On-site attendance
Preferred:
- Experience with SaaS (Cloud) Technologies
- Extensive exposure to micro-services architecture and enterprise systems monitoring
- Extensive experience with design (SOLID, Database, etc)
- Experience in the mortgage industry
- Experience in an agile environment
- Exposure to MDM, ETL, and ELT
- Hands-on-experience architecting and delivering solutions related to enterprise integration, REST-ful APIs, service-oriented architecture, and legacy modernization
- TOGAF, ArchiMate
