Solutions Architect Job in Princeton, New Jersey US
Solutions Architect
The Solutions Architect is a problem solver and is responsible for the overall execution and organization of the development effort on large-scale technology engagements. The Solutions Architect has the ultimate responsibility of making technologies work together and, as a result, is a key role that contributes heavily towards the success of the project. They are responsible for transforming the requirements into architecture and design documents that can be used by the rest of the team to actually create the solution.
The Solutions Architect is also responsible for the guidance of development as well as obtaining buy-in and acceptance of the solution architecture. They must be able to understand and predict from afar how all the pieces will fit together and identify potential issues and risks early on to develop mitigation strategies and contingency plans. The successful candidate will have advanced communication and negotiation skills, as well as an innate ability to simplify complex technology concepts and to plan, prioritize and seamlessly integrate all moving parts to deploy successful solutions.
• Perform technical requirements gathering, use-case discovery, and platform analysis
• Generate convincing and substantiated technology and architecture recommendations
• Develop and maintain software requirements specification and architecture documents
• Serve as the primary day-to-day technical contact for Clients, third-party vendors, technology partners and internal project stakeholders
• Collaborates with Technology Directors to develop estimates and overall implementation solution plans
• Serve as the lead for all implementation, customization, and integration efforts
• Define and document best practices and contribute to company knowledge sharing efforts
• Identify and define integration points with third party solutions
• Define and document all tools and technologies used to implement the solution
• Work with vendor services to provide elements related to technology selection and implementation
• Perform problem analysis (identify root causes, outline resolution options, and take appropriate actions to resolve problems)
• Prepare and deliver technical proposals and presentations to all levels of a client’s organization
• Evaluate vendor documentation and technical requirements to accurately estimate time and cost of identified options in order to make recommendations on approach from the business perspective
• Provide strong subject matter expertise to identify and translate business and system requirements into software architecture and design artifacts and documents.
• Interface and coordinate tasks with internal and external business and IT resources, collaborate with project and delivery managers to provide estimates, and develop the overall implementation solution plan.
• Serve as lead in the implementation; oversee the development, integration, testing and deployment efforts and provide support to the project team throughout quality assurance testing, performance testing, user acceptance testing.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, with 10+ years of business application design and development experience.
• Deep technical expertise in Microsoft-based application development: C#, .Net framework, Web Services, ADO, various persistence management options, SQL Server, Oracle, MSMQ, SharePoint.
• Extensive experience developing distributed enterprise-level applications using object-oriented techniques within a pharmaceutical / healthcare on line marketing agency
• Exposure to one or more formal software development lifecycle methodologies (such as Agile, RUP, MSF).
• Strong customer service focus and client engagement skills.
• Advanced knowledge of programming languages (e.g.HTML5, MVC, .NET, Java and PHP, Perl, SQL, Flash/Flex, Ruby-on-Rails, etc.) and the ability to propose alternative solutions and cost-benefit analysis based on these technologies
• Expert-level knowledge in Web 2.0 technologies, including AJAX, social networking and blog platforms, widget development, mobile and emerging digital interfaces
• Expert-level knowledge of object-oriented design concepts, various frameworks, data storage implementations and enterprise design patterns
• Expert-level design and modeling experience with Oracle SQL Server
• Be familiar with each of the various UML forms and have expertise in the development of use cases, class diagrams, and occasionally state diagrams as well
• Up-to-date understanding of market trends and keen interest in following emerging technologies
• Computer science degree preferred