Solutions Architect

Old Dominion Freight Line; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 143,250 - 179,041; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Zero premium medical plan

Vision & Dental

401k Retirement plan with company match

Tuition Reimbursement

12 Days Paid Time Off

9 Paid Holidays

Job summary

Old Dominion Freight Line is seeking an experienced IT Architect to function as a strategic advisor for engineering teams. The successful candidate will lead the development of Continuous Integration and Delivery capabilities and ensure that solutions meet necessary performance and technical requirements.

This role requires a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science along with 10 years of application development experience and 2 years in IT architecture. A competitive salary between $143,250 and $179,041 is offered along with comprehensive health benefits and numerous growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in application development.
• 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 and large-scale application platforms.
• Agile software development experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic solution advisor to IT engineering teams.
• Lead programs to develop Continuous Integration and Delivery capabilities.
• Develop IT DevOps architectural standards.
• Ensure delivered solutions meet performance and technical requirements.
• Coach and mentor developers and engineers.

Skills

Application Development

IT Architecture

DevOps

Distributed Computing

Agile Development

Containerization

Aptitude for Mentoring

Exceptional Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

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, 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; participate in educational opportunities; read professional publications; maintain personal networks; participate in professional organizations.
• Improve delivery operations by conducting systems analysis; recommend changes in policies and procedures.
• Obtain and license software by obtaining required information from vendors; recommend purchases; test and approve products.
• Protect operations by keeping information confidential.
• Continuously improve by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.
• Be accountable to accomplish engineering and organization mission while completing solution delivery.
• Develop software solutions by studying information needs; confer with users and internal cross-discipline IT department; study systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigate problem areas; follow 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.

• 10 years of experience in application development.
• 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.
• Requires 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

($143,250-$179,041)

Working Hours

Shift and hours to be determined. Working days and shift are estimates and are subject to change, at any given time, based on job scheduling and/or business levels.

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.
• We prioritize our OD family of employees.
• Ability to advance through our promote from within philosophy.
• National Career Opportunities Available at our 260+ service centers.
• 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).