NEW YORK, New York
Job Type: FT
Rate: 200,000
Cloud Presales Solutions Architect Job Opening in NEW YORK, New York - We are working with an NYC/NJ area client seeking a dynamic and highly experienced technical leader with outstanding client-facing skills.
As a senior architect, you will be taking an active technical leadership role on projects to deliver solutions to our clients, and also be heavily involved in pre-sales efforts and in mentoring the client's technical staff. Candidates will be evaluated on the basis of:
1. Hands-on technical skills
2. Client-facing & sales skills
3. Breadth & length of experience
In this role you must be confident in engaging in a range of conversations with senior client management and staff, have the ability to lead discussions and workshops, have the technical ability to both architect and design complex enterprise solutions, and the technical experience to code Proof of Concept systems and contribute code to projects.
Our client is a rapidly expanding, global, organization and as such, the candidate will be required to undertake travel to work close to the client as well as to interact with our nearshore delivery teams. In some cases, the Architect may be required to be present on client sites for extended periods of several months in the New York/Metro area.
? Supporting pre-sales and 'pitch' activity by providing technical and solution expertise to the sales team and participating in sales calls to clients.
? Actively shaping scope, requirements, technical details and staffing of projects
? Developing architectural solutions in collaboration with clients. Reviewing and validating solutions produced by clients.
? Coding POCs and contributing to MVP solutions.
? Working with the client's teams on design and estimation tasks
? Mentoring delivery teams to improve their technical ability and processes
? Broadening the client's knowledge base in emerging technology areas such as IoT, Augmented Reality, Blockchain systems, bot-based solutions, machine-learning, etc.
Essential
? 15+ years of experience in delivering quality software solutions
? Exceptional client-facing communications skills, both written and verbal
? Expertise with architecting, designing, delivering large systems implemented in one or more popular technology stacks (including those based on Java, .Net, Python, Ruby, Javascript, etc).
? Very strong object-oriented analysis skills
? Experience in pre-sales efforts and running client engagements from a technical perspective
? Extensive experience in application architectures
? Understands a broad range of architectural patterns and styles (e.g. SOA, Microservices, etc)
? Experience in modernizing legacy architectures
? In-depth knowledge of one or more cloud platforms (eg. AWS, Azure)
? Knowledge of database architectures, data modeling, SQL and NoSQL approaches.
? Proficiency in creating a broad range of architecture documentation
? Ability to conduct in-depth design reviews of large systems
? Understanding of DevOps culture, practices and tools
Desirable
? Enterprise Architecture experience
? Advanced degree in computer science or related field
? Knowledge of functional programming in one or more languages
? Experience with one or more leading SaaS platforms such as Salesforce.com
? Exposure to offshore development using both agile and other delivery techniques
? In-depth knowledge with one or more complex technical domains, including Distributed
Cache Solutions, Master Data Management, Machine Learning, Big Data, Data Visualization, Augmented Reality, Internet of things, etc.
? Experience with Data Warehouse, ETL, dashboard, and associated reporting solutions is a big plus
? Experience with one or more CMS platforms such as Sitecore or others.
? Wide exposure to a variety of computer languages (Go, Rust, Ruby, Python, etc).
? Experience with Continuous Delivery
? Experience working in the Media, Healthcare, Financial, Pharma, or Retail sectors
? Public speaking experience
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