Solution Architect - Senior

Cummins; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cummins is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to design scalable, reliable architectures for our Columbus, IN operations. You will define component structures, interfaces, and reference architectures to promote standardization and reusability across teams and regions.

You will partner with business stakeholders and technical teams to deliver innovative solutions, evaluate emerging technologies, and lead pilot programs to validate capabilities for future opportunities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development, application engineering, or related technical roles.
• Strong knowledge of modern architectural patterns, cloud platforms and integration technologies.
• Prior hands-on experience as a Software Developer and/or Technical Lead is preferred.
• Experience designing complex applications and architectures for enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain global reference architectures for consistency and reuse across teams and regions.
• Build partnerships with business stakeholders and technical teams to deliver value and user adoption.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and run pilots to validate new capabilities for future opportunities.
• Assess capacity and technology needs, advising on growth, performance, and long-term objectives.
• Collaborate with others to meet shared objectives.
• Support decision-quality processes to keep projects moving forward.
• Apply change management processes to achieve and sustain results.
• Define and develop architecture deliverables and building blocks for systems landscape.
• Lead analysis of solution fit, decomposing systems to meet requirements across security and governance.
• Manage issues and risks to maximize positive outcomes.

Skills

Architecture design

Cloud platforms

Integration technologies

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Mulesoft

Azure APIM

Azure Data Factory

Java

Kubernetes

Job description

We are looking for a talented Solution Architect- Senior to join our team specializing in Systems/Information Technology for our Corporate organization in Columbus, IN. Design scalable, reliable system architectures by defining component structures, allocating functionality, and establishing effective interfaces between systems and applications.

• Create and maintain global reference architectures that promote consistency, standardization, and reusable technology building blocks across teams and regions.
• Build strong partnerships with business stakeholders, customers, and technical teams to deliver innovative solutions that maximize business value and user adoption.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, software trends, and tools while leading pilot programs and proof-of-concept initiatives to validate new capabilities and future opportunities.
• Assess infrastructure capacity and future technology needs while providing strategic recommendations that support growth, performance, and long-term business objectives.
• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Decision quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Change Management - Applies the Cummins structured process and tool set for engaging individuals and organizations through change to achieve and sustain business results and outcomes.
• Architecture System Design - Defines and develops architecture deliverables, artifacts and building blocks (e.g. conceptual models, logical models, physical network designs, etc.)
• Solution Functional Fit Analysis - Composes and decomposes a system into its component parts using procedures, tools and work aides for the purpose of studying how well the component parts were designed, purchased and configured to interact holistically to meet business, technical, security, governance and compliance requirements.
• Project Issue and Risk Management - Manages the process to identify, assess and prioritize issues and risks using recommended tools and disciplines. Drives actions to minimize, monitor and control risks and issues and to maximize the most positive outcomes possible.
• Demonstrated architecture and design experience, strong knowledge of modern architectural patterns, cloud platforms and integration technologies.
• 10+ years of total professional experience in software development, application engineering, or related technical roles.
• # Prior hands-on experience as a Software Developer and/or Technical Lead is required.
• # Complex Application Solution Design utilizing technologies like Java/Angular/Kubernetes/.Net/PhP is needed
• # Architecture development framework and methodology to design systems landscape and interactions within enterprise, utilizing Mulesoft, Azure APIM, Azure Data Factory, etc.
• # Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, sex, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity, or other status protected by law.