Solutions Architect

Prime Responsibility

● Understand the current system architecture from product, system, and business perspective.

● Define a high-level microservice architecture as per the current system.

● Identify partners, and stakeholders, to define a detailed architecture of the system.

● Create a roadmap to implement the defined architecture.

● Hire relevant resources to initiate implementations.

● Build a plan for system migration from monolith to micro-service.

Other Responsibilities

● Understand the user-stories/Issues from the Product team/QA team.

● Think of the most optimum way to solve it.

● Decompose the user story/issue into smaller sub-task units such that any developers with little/no

knowledge of the system can code them concurrently.

● Provide detailed specs for the solution proposed.

● Define clear goals, pre-conditions, and acceptance criteria for each sub-task.

● Provide a framework/architecture to assemble these solutions of the sub-tasks into 1 big solution

corresponding to the user story/issue.

● Analyze technologies used within the organization and chart out ways to improve them.

● Align the DevOps/Infra team to create the right set of infra required for the solutions built.

● Propose improvement to the product team wherever required.

● Work closely with the project managers to monitor the progress.

● Manage and groom a team of developers and leads who have prospects to become architects.

● Contribute in hiring/interviews.

Qualifications

● Proven skills in solution architecture, design architecture.

● Good experience in software development.

● Experience in project management.

● Preferably MS in Computer Science or Software Engineering.

● Capable of managing the SDLC end-to-end

● Good experience of AWS or Azure, GCP

● Experience building large and complex systems

● Experience handling high-transaction volumes and mission-critical systems

● Experience in database design, cloud-infra design, application security, microservices

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