Azure/API Solution Architect

Azure/API Solution ArchitectLocation: US Remote (Preferred Hartford CT)Overall - 10+ yearsVertical- HealthcareRequired SkillsAPI-first centric enterpriseAzure cloud (compute), GCP (big data), some AWS (digital experience)Salesforce Service Cloud for user experience (GPS and some MX)Significant experience with systems integration.Experience with the design and development of complex systems; employs a disciplined and rigorous approachAdept at requirements analysis, estimation, systems and application design, and testingFamiliarity with popular Design Patterns.Excellent collaboration, influencing, and consensus-building skills. Ability to work with persons in all job functions (e.g. product, program, developers, etc).Excellent verbal and written communicationsAbility to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision. Self-directedA great team player, with demonstrable experience delivering superior software products via Agile methodologiesExperience on an Agile teamExperience with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies such as Java, JavaScript, Node.js, messaging queuing infrastructures, as well as cloud and on-premise infrastructure and servicesExperience with distributed computing architectures, including race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency controlMeeting facilitation with stakeholders, partners and teamDesired SkillsA proven track record working as part of a team on large/complex systemsArchitectural/technical experience with cloud native especially Azure Cloud and their platform as a service offerings.Experience with RDBMS and/or NoSQL databases (i.e. MongoDB). Understands the benefits and trade-offs of both. Familiar with normalization and denormalization, sharding, and other data-centric patternsArchitectural/technical experience with Gen AI (RAG frameworks, Vector DB searches and embeddings, etc.) and/or Conversational AI (IBM WatsonX, Google Dialog Flow, etc.)Experience designing REST APIs that facilitate a strong developer experience or simplify systems integration.Experience with SAFe Software Development PrinciplesExperience with distributed caching solutions; understands the factors that enable effective cachingExposure to CI/CD and DevOpsResponsibilities:Receive epic/feature assignments and general direction from train architect.Partner with Product Owner, BA and Development technical leads to refine/understand requirements.Partner with Solution Domain Lead architects (if necessary) to seek guidance or vet solutions impacting other domains.Collaborate with integration architect to deliver solution artifacts (sketch, ppt, etc.)Continuously attain and refine business and systems subject matter expertise.Leverage architecture patterns for the solution. Create them if covering new ground.Present solution sketches to various stakeholders (SS architect team, Infrastructure SMEs, business, etc.) for review and feedback.