Solutions Architect

Creospan is a growing tech collective of makers, shakers, and problem solvers, offering solutions today that will propel businesses into a better tomorrow. “Tomorrow’s ideas, built today!” In addition to being able to work alongside equally brilliant and motivated developers, our consultants appreciate the opportunity to learn and apply new skills and methodologies to different clients and industries.

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Solution Architect – Java / Azure / React

Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire

Location: Chicago, IL – Hybrid

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect to lead the architecture and design of modern enterprise applications and technology solutions. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Java, Spring Boot, React, and Microsoft Azure , along with extensive experience designing scalable, secure, and highly available enterprise applications.

The Solution Architect will work closely with engineering teams, business stakeholders, product managers, and enterprise architects to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions and architecture.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and lead the solution architecture for complex enterprise applications and technology initiatives.
• Design scalable, secure, highly available, and resilient solutions using Java, Spring Boot, React, and Azure .
• Develop architecture diagrams, technical designs, integration patterns, and solution documentation.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to software engineering teams.
• Evaluate existing applications and recommend modernization, cloud migration, and optimization strategies.
• Design cloud-native and hybrid solutions leveraging Microsoft Azure services.
• Define and review microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and integration patterns .
• Establish architecture standards, design principles, and development best practices.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, DevOps, and Data teams to ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
• Review technical designs and provide guidance on technology selection and implementation approaches.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, scalability concerns, and potential architectural issues.
• Ensure solutions meet requirements related to security, performance, availability, scalability, maintainability, and compliance .
• Collaborate with development teams throughout the SDLC and provide architectural oversight from design through implementation.
• Participate in architecture reviews, design reviews, and technical discussions with senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Mentor senior developers and technical leads on architecture and engineering best practices.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong experience in Solution Architecture / Application Architecture within large enterprise environments.
• Strong hands-on background with Java and Spring Boot .
• Strong experience designing RESTful APIs and Microservices architectures .
• Strong experience with React.js and modern front-end architecture.
• Extensive experience with Microsoft Azure and cloud architecture.
• Experience designing cloud-native and distributed applications .
• Strong understanding of API management, integration, messaging, and event-driven architecture.
• Experience with relational databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, or PostgreSQL .
• Strong understanding of security, authentication, authorization, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, Git, Docker, and Kubernetes .
• Strong understanding of scalability, high availability, resiliency, performance, and disaster recovery.

Architecture & Leadership

• Ability to translate complex business requirements into technical architecture and solution designs .
• Experience creating architecture diagrams using tools such as Visio, Lucidchart, or similar .
• Strong knowledge of architectural patterns, design patterns, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Ability to evaluate technology alternatives and make architecture recommendations based on business and technical requirements.
• Experience working with Enterprise Architects, Product Managers, Engineering Leaders, and Business Stakeholders .
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the financial services / banking industry .
• Experience with large-scale enterprise application modernization.
• Experience migrating applications from on-premises environments to Azure .
• Experience with Kafka or other event-streaming technologies .
• Experience with Azure services such as AKS, Azure Functions, Azure App Services, Azure API Management, Azure Service Bus, Azure Storage, and Azure Monitor .
• Knowledge of enterprise security and regulatory/compliance requirements.
• Experience with architecture governance and technology standards.

Experience

• 10+ years of software engineering experience , with significant experience in architecture and technical leadership.
• 5+ years of experience in Solution/Application Architecture or a similar senior architecture role.
• Proven experience leading architecture for complex enterprise applications and cloud initiatives.