Solution Architecture

Valiant Technologies LLC; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Valiant Technologies LLC in Des Moines, IA seeks an experienced Solution Architect to lead end-to-end architecture for enterprise infrastructure, cloud transformation, and application modernization. You will translate business and security requirements into scalable cloud solutions across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, defining landing zones, governance, and migration strategies.

Join our team to shape platform initiatives, guide DevOps and operations, and document decisions and implementation

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end solution architecture for enterprise infrastructure and cloud initiatives.
• Translate business, application, security, compliance and performance requirements into scalable solutions.
• Develop high-level and detailed designs covering compute, storage, network, security, data, and observability.
• Facilitate architecture reviews and ensure alignment with enterprise standards and governance.
• Evaluate options and recommend based on value, security, scalability, and TCO.
• Provide technical direction to engineering, migration, platform, DevOps, and operations teams.
• Create architecture diagrams, BOMs, implementation approaches, and decision records.
• Design cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, and multi-cloud solutions using AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Define landing-zone requirements, accounts, connectivity, identity, security, logging, monitoring, and governance.
• Architect solutions using compute, storage, networking, database, container, serverless, integration, and AI services.
• Lead infrastructure and application discovery, dependency assessment, migration-wave planning, and workload disposition decisions.
• Define migration patterns such as rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, retain, and replace.
• Design solutions for migrating enterprise applications, databases, middleware, network services, and security components from data centers to cloud platforms.
• Support workload modernization involving containers, microservices, API gateways, managed databases, serverless computing, and cloud-native services.

Job description

• Lead end-to-end solution architecture for enterprise infrastructure, cloud transformation, application modernization, and AI/ML platform initiatives.


• Translate business, application, security, compliance, performance, and operational requirements into scalable technical solutions.


• Develop high-level and detailed solution designs covering compute, storage, network, security, identity, data, integration, observability, resiliency, and disaster recovery.


• Facilitate architecture reviews and ensure proposed solutions align with enterprise standards, technology strategy, and architecture governance.


• Evaluate technical alternatives and provide recommendations based on business value, security, scalability, performance, supportability, and total cost of ownership.


• Provide technical direction to engineering, migration, platform, DevOps, and operations teams throughout the solution lifecycle.


• Create architecture diagrams, design documents, bills of materials, implementation approaches, and technical decision records.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, and multi-cloud solutions using AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.


• Define cloud landing-zone requirements, account and subscription structures, connectivity, identity integration, security controls, logging, monitoring, and governance.


• Architect solutions using cloud compute, storage, networking, database, container, serverless, integration, and AI services.


• Lead infrastructure and application discovery, dependency assessment, migration-wave planning, and workload disposition decisions.


• Define migration patterns such as rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, retain, and replace.


• Design solutions for migrating enterprise applications, databases, middleware, network services, and security components from data centers to cloud platforms.


• Support workload modernization involving containers, microservices, API gateways, managed databases, serverless computing, and cloud-native services.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.