Solutions Architect Job in Austin 78703, Texas US
We are seeking a Solutions Architect for an opportunity to have a great impact in designing and driving development of current and future solutions for our growing Austin client. The primary focus of this position is to identify the specific development, hardware, and process requirements necessary to build, enhance and update their offerings. These solutions will both benefit internal groups in working more effectively and external consumers by providing effective tools and resources.
General Description:
This position is responsible for gathering software requirements developed by the marketing, sales, business development, and finance teams and developing a high level product requirements report and a detailed software requirements document for the software development organization for additional design, development, and testing activities. The Solutions Architect is also responsible for creating user acceptance testing criteria, managing testing sessions with end-users, and ensuring that the product developed meets the specifications and is deployed successfully
A successful candidate will have prior experience with software solution architecture, software development and product management lifecycle of software products, preferably from a Business Analyst, Marketing, and/or Project Management perspective. The candidate must be comfortable building inter-company relationships, an excellent communicator both orally and written, enjoy working with others, is fast paced, and is extremely detail oriented.
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Participate in the full software development life-cycle from definition, through design, build, test, release and maintain
• Provide input into project planning tasks and deliverables
• Create technical designs, specifications, and integration tests
• Research and track advancements in database, web and mobile
• Develop mobile or web prototypes to validate architecture and design decisions, validate maintainability, performance and scalability, security, and speed to market
• Provide technology leadership and mentoring to technology development teams
• Research and evaluate vendor solutions, frameworks, evolving technologies, standards, and understand potential impact on current or future solutions
• Provide analysis, research or troubleshooting of existing applications and solutions
• Take creative approaches to problem solving and apply innovative methods
• Able to efficiently determine root cause of issues
• Architect integrated solution with current infrastructure
• Interface with other departments to define internal and external products and projects
Requirements:
• More than 5 years of experience in architecting solutions in a Linux environment
• More than 3 years of current/recent development of applications focused on database and web
• Demonstrated experience with multiple development languages such as PHP, Java, and Objective C, as well as web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
• Demonstrated experience with source code management systems
• Working knowledge of various application server platforms such as APACHE, TOMCAT,
• Experience developing database driven mobile applications for iPhone and Android
• Working knowledge of various device, desktop and server operating systems, such as UNIX/LINUX, Windows, iOS, Android
• Strong database design and development experience, on MySQL, MONGO, etc
• Experience designing solutions for high availability and customer experience
• Demonstrated experience with secure development practices
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