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, and 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; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations. Improve delivery operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures. Obtain and license software by obtaining required information from vendors; recommending purchases; testing and approving products. Protect operations by keeping information confidential. Continuously improve by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues. Accountable to accomplish engineering and organization mission while completing solution delivery. Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users and internal cross discipline IT department; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following 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. Experience: 10 years of experience in application development and 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. 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 Range: The referenced salary range is based on the Company’s good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training, skill level, and state/local wage requirements. ($143,250-$179,041) Working Days: Shift and hours to be determined. Working Shift: Shift and hours to be determined. Work Days and Shift are estimates and are subject to change, at any given time, based on job scheduling and/or business levels. Any information listed regarding Days and Shifts shall be considered a guideline of expectations for the specific position at the time of posting. 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. 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). #J-18808-Ljbffr