Location: King of Prussia, PA
Type: Full time opportunity
Location: King of Prussia, PA
The primary focus of the Solution Architect is to partner with the client’s senior level account management teams and provide technical solutions for client and prospect needs while maintaining the technical integrity of the client’s enterprise. This role focuses specifically on Front End Architecture. The Solution Architect will directly participate in client and prospect meetings. The Solution Architect will be expected to interactively come up with technical strategies that meet client needs and are consistent with our client’s platform capabilities. The Solution Architect will be involved in the estimation, planning, analysis, design, and implementation of the various projects that result from these client interactions.
Technical Responsibilities
Support client and prospect meetings. Present current baseline technical capabilities of our client’s platform to clients, and actively participate with defining technical approaches to solving client’s business needs.
Produce system solutions and architectural designs to meet identified business requirements. Solutions must incorporate scalability, availability, security, and maintainability characteristics. Risks, assumptions, and costs for solutions must be articulated.
Review and approve detailed technical designs produced by technical leads on projects.
Participate in code reviews.
Mentor IT organization on adherence to design and architecture guidelines.
Identify, evaluate and formally recommend third party software and technology packages and services as needed.
Actively participate in the implementation of pilots of new software applications and infrastructure.
On occasion, assist in production escalations and problem resolution.
Leadership Responsibilities
Promote technical vision and sound engineering principles among technology department staff members.
Technically govern large scale technical projects
Propose changes in process, policy, and standards as they relate to the architecture and design principles
Assist management in the prioritization of infrastructure development projects.
Actively participate in the recruiting process.
Identify training/conferences that will assist in developing necessary skills for technical staff, as well as promoting an understanding of our client’s technical vision.
Technology
Experience with Rich Internet Application using AJAX/AHAH and Flash
Experience building/integrating with Web content management systems
Extensive experience building and architecting high traffic internet sites serving 10-100 million+ requests per day or similar high transaction volume distributed systems
5+ years experience development experience with Java concentrating on server-side development
Extensive experience implementing complex system integrations utilizing messaging and HTTP
Experience architecting highly-available, failure resistant/tolerant internet scale systems
Leadership – Ability to think strategically. Ability to create and promote guiding development principles, and influence prospects, clients, and business management in adopting technically sound solutions to their business problems.
Communication – Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and process facilitation skills.
Accessibility – Ability to work with both business and technical representatives at all levels.
Decision-Making – Ability to make informed balanced decisions in a timely manner. Must be able to think on his/her feet!
Time Management – Ability to manage many initiatives at the same time, and exercise judgment on the most appropriate areas of focus.
Business – A thorough understanding how technology decisions impact the GSI business as a whole.
Travel – Must be willing to travel up to 25% of the time.
Desired Qualifications
Experience in developing event-driven and service-oriented architectures
Experience with web services, specifically security and identity management
Experience with various enterprise messaging technologies
Experience with Enterprise Service Bus solutions
Experience in e-commerce.
Experience with commercial supply chain, trading partner, warehouse, logistics management, marketing, and/or customer relationship management (CRM) software.
Experience with Oracle, JDA, E.piphany, Red Prairie, WebLogic
-Candidate must be focused on the Web User Interface
-Will need to be proficient with HTML / FLASH / FLEX
-Candidate must have experience with high traffic internet sites with a volume of 10 Mil to 100 Mil requests per day or the equivalent experience
-Candidate should have awareness of back end integration experience, but this is not a large part of the role
-Candidate must be able to focus on UI technologies and have some server side technical experience
-Candidate must have experience as a lead Architect
-Candidate must have experience with client facing
-Candidate must have experience with seeing the project through to completion
-The “Estimation” requirements will be much lighter than the typical Solutions Architect position however Estimations will still be involved
-The candidate will need the maturity to communicate with a variety of creative skill sets and personalities
Contact: Bludwikowski@misicompany.com
Compensation: $130-150K
