Senior Solutions Architect

Applicable Limited; Santa Clara (CA); Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to work remotely, responsible for creating solution architectures and consulting with clients. Ideal candidates should have a strong technical background, excellent communication skills, and a Bachelor's degree. This role offers the opportunity to innovate and contribute to high-impact solutions within a diverse team environment.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge in infrastructure and application software deployment.
• Experience in survey methodologies and Enterprise Architecture.
• Solid experience in software development and integration projects.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to the development of complex solution architectures.
• Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and trade-offs.
• Supports projects through the preparation of technical plans.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Analytical skills

Client engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or business

Tools

TOGAF

ITIL

Scaled Agile

Job description

Continue to make an impact with a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. At NTT DATA, we are renowned for our technical excellence, leading innovations, and making a difference for our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion – it’s a place where you can continue to grow, belong, and thrive.

Your career here is about believing in yourself and seizing new opportunities and challenges. It’s about expanding your skills and expertise in your current role and preparing yourself for future advancements. That’s why we encourage you to take every opportunity to further your career within our great global team.

Grow Your Career with NTT DATA

The Senior Solutions Architect is an advanced subject matter expert, primarily responsible for consulting with the client and working with internal teams to create strategies, transformational
designs and the architectural vision for more complex solutions that address the clients’ needs.

This role provides multi-technology consulting services on all aspects of application software, infrastructure and related technology components.

What you'll be doing

Key Responsibilities:

• Contributes to the development of complex solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
• Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.
• Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products.
• Supports a change programme or project through the preparation of technical plans and application of design principles that comply with enterprise and solution architecture standards.
• Accountable for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution.
• Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies.
• Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others.
• Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.
• Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements, including proof of concept (POC).
• Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications.
• Makes recommendations for the development of new go to market services and contributes knowledge on relevant verticals.
• Operates across both the technical levels within the enterprise architecture and the value chain in order to develop holistic and integrated solutions.
• Provides coaching and mentoring to less experienced Solutions Architects.

Knowledge and Attributes:

• Advanced knowledge of multi-vendor service integrations and cross-functional software, OS’s and infrastructure designs.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written coupled with excellent interpersonal skills to build solid working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Advanced knowledge on how specific infrastructures and application software are deployed in line with relevant methodologies and frameworks.
• Ability to develop and leverage their advanced specialist knowledge of reference architectures.
• Ability to maintain knowledge of trends and development in technology domains.
• Ability to keep abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Advanced ability to collaborate with cross functional teams such as sales, product, delivery etc.

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering or business or a related field.
• Certification and working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (for example, TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, COBIT, etc.).
• Safe Scaled Agile certification advantageous.

Required Experience:

• Advanced professional technical, IT or Operations experience within a large scale (preferably multi- national) technology services environment on the following areas: Software Development, Application Support and Infrastructure Support.
• Advanced Project or Program Management experience would be preferred but not essential.
• Advanced client engagement and consulting experience coupled with solid experience in client needs assessment and change management.
• Advanced experience in integrating the solution for the particular project with the business domain, enterprise concerns, industry standards, established patterns and best practices.
• Advanced experience working in an agile development environment.
• Advanced experience in developing, selling and delivering technical solutions.

Workplace type:

Remote Working

Equal Opportunity Employer
NTT DATA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate based on age, race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected category. Accelerate your career with us. Apply today