Solutions Architect

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic solution advisor to the IT engineering teams.
• Lead programs to develop, maintain, and govern Continuous Integration and Delivery capabilities across the enterprise.
• Develop, socialize, and communicate IT DevOps architectural standards.
• Participate in the Architecture / Design Review Board processes.
• Lead the architecture and engineering of application delivery capabilities.
• Continuous Integration and Delivery through a Source-To-Image strategy.
• Application resiliency, high availability, and security.
• Application elasticity and scalability.
• Application monitoring and alerting.
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Develop the program/project solution architecture, including diagrams, data models, and other artifacts as required (primarily at the logical level of the solution architecture).
• Ensure that the delivered solution meets the functional, performance, cost constraint and technical operations requirements that have been agreed to for the project.
• Ensure detailed designers have what they need to complete their tasks.
• Translate Enterprise Architecture artifacts and guidance into the logical design.
• Develop and maintain a holistic picture of the solution, and provide technical oversight of the detailed design activities, implementation and testing of the design.
• Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
• Prepare and install solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
• Update job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment; participate in educational opportunities; read professional publications; maintain personal networks; participate in professional organizations.
• Improve delivery operations by conducting systems analysis; recommend changes in policies and procedures.
• Obtain and license software by obtaining required information from vendors; recommend purchases; test and approve products.
• Protect operations by keeping information confidential.
• Continuously improve by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.
• Be accountable to accomplish engineering and organization mission while completing solution delivery.
• Develop software solutions by studying information needs; confer with users and internal cross-discipline IT department; study systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigate problem areas; follow the software development lifecycle.
• Coach and mentor solution designers, software engineers, and system engineers in the principles and practicalities of modern application delivery.

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of relevant education, training and experience.

• 10 years of experience in application development.
• 2 years of experience in IT architecture and engineering.
• Direct experience in the architecture of PaaS, Public / Private / Hybrid Cloud and DevOps platforms.
• Experience with data management, architecture patterns, and large-scale application platforms.
• Experience with distributed computing environments.
• Agile software development experience preferred.
• Requires knowledge and use of containerization and virtualization technologies.
• Experience with Application-to-Application integration.
• Aptitude for, desire to, and experience in mentoring developers and engineers.
• Exceptional partnering and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and self‑pace work to meet required deadlines.

Compensation

($143,250-$179,041)

Working Hours

Shift and hours to be determined. Working days and shift are estimates and are subject to change, at any given time, based on job scheduling and/or business levels.

Benefits

• Great Health Benefits including a Zero premium medical plan for employee only coverage.
• Vision & Dental.
• Short Term & Long Term Disability.
• Flex Spending Accounts.
• 401k Retirement plan with company match and additional company annual discretionary match opportunity.
• Life Insurance.
• Wellness Program.
• 12 Days Paid Time Off.
• 9 Paid Holidays including a birthday holiday.
• Tuition Reimbursement for Drivers and Technicians.
• Training and growth opportunities to build a career.
• We prioritize our OD family of employees.
• Ability to advance through our promote from within philosophy.
• National Career Opportunities Available at our 260+ service centers.
• Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, and/or gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, military status, Vietnam Era and/or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law(s).