Solution Architect

Kaleidoscope Innovation; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaleidoscope Innovation in Seattle is seeking a Lead Solution Architect to work closely with cross-functional teams, translating business requirements into architectural plans that enable innovative digital health solutions. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in application development and cloud solutions, alongside the ability to guide and mentor development teams.

You will be responsible for leading proof-of-concepts, evaluating new technologies, and ensuring that all solutions meet non-functional requirements effectively. Strong knowledge of service APIs, micro services, and modern development frameworks is essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with service API and micro services.
• 5+ years of enterprise level application development experience.
• 3+ years of architecting solutions for the Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical architecture expert for a single value stream.
• Manage the evolution of architectural roadmaps.
• Evaluate high-level technical feasibility based on product vision.

Skills

API management

Enterprise application development

Cloud architecture (GCP, Azure, AWS)

Micro services

DevOps principles

Responsive UI design

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

CircleCI

GIT

Job description

We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

Lead Solution Architect Role

Lead Solution Architect who will be working with design, research, product management and engineering teams to translate business requirements into architecture runways for application development plans which enables innovative digital solutions that will make health care more accessible, more integrated, and more reliable for more people, both online and in our stores. Candidate should have extensive application development knowledge and experience and ability to understand, evaluate and influence business need decisions. Also need to have experiences and expertise in providing architecture support in optimizing business operations.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include:

• Serve as technical architecture expert for a single value stream (e.g. Portfolio), helping to ensure successful product deliveries
• Manage the evolution of architectural roadmaps for your domain, showing how new features are released or updated, with an eye on paying down technical debt with minimal disruption
• Understand the product requirement and product vision, evaluate the high-level technical feasibility, blocker or risks, lead the solution discussion
• Work on the overall solution engaging with other architecture colleagues on UI, API and service level with logic workflow, integration strategy and technical blueprint
• Communicate and present solution to business partners and leadership, communicate and align engineering team on solution technical blueprint
• Lead Proof‑Of‑Concepts and Spike Solutions, and provide "Reference Architectures" and "Baseline Implementations" when appropriate
• Evaluation of new technologies, vendors and hands on POCs on new or emerging technologies
• Provide guidance to developers and other stakeholders on architectural best practices, guidelines, and standards. Evangelize, mentor, and coach all on the same
• Provide guidance, direction and mentorship to Architects
• Provide guidance to developers and other stakeholders regarding the design of server applications, encompassing APIs and micro‑services, domain driven design, containers, databases, cloud infrastructures, and cloud services
• Ensure all Non‑Functional Requirements (e.g. performance, availability and fail‑over, scalability, security, etc.) are properly articulated, and work with all parties to guarantee that the software products that are delivered meet these objectives
• Participates in high‑level estimation
• Mentor and coach junior engineers and seek the opportunity to bring in continuous Improvements to implement

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with concept of service API, caching, web component, content management, web security, SSR/CSR, micro services, identity management
• 5+ years of hands‑on consumer facing enterprise level application development experience
• 3+ years of experience with architecting solutions for Cloud (GCP, Azure, or AWS)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience and proficiency with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies
• Experience with the design and development of complex systems/user interfaces; employs a disciplined and rigorous approach
• Experience with requirements analysis, estimation, systems and application design, and testing
• Experience with distributed computing architectures, including race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency control
• Experience driving a build vs buy evaluation to completion
• Experience with JavaScript/ECMAScript ES6/ES7/ES8, UI Middleware
• Experience with packaging, bundling technologies, and library management tools
• Experience with CircleCI, CI/CD Pipeline, GIT and other DevOps principles
• Experience with responsive, adaptive UI design and development
• Experience with SAFE practices or able to work in SAFE practices and agile methodologies
• Experience related to security‑oriented projects
• Experience with modern API patterns and how to build well‑designed APIs

Education

Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

Kaleidoscope, an Infosys Company, is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, spouse of protected veteran, or disability.