Principal Solution Architect

Principal Solution Architect

Location: Austin/Fort Mill/NY City/San Diego. (has to be local or willing to come to these locations for 3 days a week)

Job Overview:

The Principal Solution Architect is responsible for the leadership, analysis, and design of the Enterprise Solution Architecture (ESA) supporting our extraordinary company growth projections and digital experiences vision.

Responsibilities:

• Leading Enterprise Solution Architecture Modeling and designs leveraging cross-domain architects and leadership to create the best technical design delivering domain driven, Scalable APIs based solutions that eliminate fate sharing across teams.
• Blueprint architecture, including multi-year transitions and recommendations to drive transformation and modernization for Clientworks and Enterprise
• Collaborate with business, product, and technology teams early in the product lifecycle to infuse end-to-end architecture thinking, including functional and non-functional aspects, into the conversation. Craft high-level design early in the lifecycle and elaborate it to lower levels of detail as conversation progress.
• Collaborating with Lean Portfolio Management to provide a high-level vision of enterprise solutions and development initiatives.
• Assisting the Agile Program Management Office to identify and design development value streams
• Participating in the strategy for building and maintaining the modern enabling architectural runway initiatives via Enabler Epics
• Promoting Continuous Delivery Pipeline and DevSecOps capabilities
• Facilitating the reuse of code, components, and proven patterns supporting modern architecture
• Deliver architecture in alignment with our Enterprise Architecture standards and advocate for Enterprise Architecture models and patterns to guide solution decisions.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of hands-on design and implementation experience in IT
• 5+ years of previous experience as a Solution Architect
• 3+ years of experience in the following technical disciplines: application development, middleware, database management or operations, security, integration
• 2+ years of Cloud experience
• 2 years of experience working with Agile teams

Core Competencies:

• Proficiency in defining current and future state architecture models.
• In depth knowledge of cloud platforms AWS (Primary) and Azure (Secondary) along with strong understanding of AWS Security best practices and Well Architecture Framework
• Experience in migrating monolith on-perm applications to cloud using Refactoring, Re-architecting and Re-platforming approach including 12 factor applications
• Experience in DevOps tools, Automated deployments and containerization
• Excellent communication skills that translate business problems in technical solutions
• Consult with customers to solve business problems by adapting current technology and/or capitalizing on emerging technology for competitive advantage to meet the strategic objectives of LPL business.
• Conduct demonstrations and presentations to executive management of prototypes and proof-of-concepts.