Solutions Architect - Docker/Kubernetes (10-15 yrs)

The Role :

The Solutions architect is responsible to adopt a business-outcome-driven solution architecture approach that is iterative, evolves with business/product strategy and delivers business outcomes.

The successful applicant will be responsible for providing the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks related to the development of an enterprise's solutions architecture. Working on a specific projects and/or product, solutions architect is responsible for deliverables that consists of end to end solution architecture consisting of sequence diagrams, use cases, component architecture, data architecture, integration and infrastructure architecture.

The solutions architect is accountable for proactively and holistically leading project/product-related activities for creating deliverables that guide the developing direction in response to business needs, disruptive forces, and driving achieving targeted business outcomes. Solutions include systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services.

Solutions architects is expected to leverage and use technology solutions to enable the organization's future-state business capabilities that, in turn, drive the organization's targeted outcomes. They facilitate and orchestrate the delivery of targeted business outcomes working with multiple stakeholders including business, product owners, design and development teams, enterprise architects and NatCos.

Responsibilities :

- Develop end to end solution architecture that considers holistic business requirements and implications, current state in the Germany and technology choices.

- Design a comprehensive target vision for a certain Digital Platform Service, API's or Customer journeys and works closely with product, design and development and Germany teams to plan transition towards the target vision

- Responsible for implementation of architecture concepts in product development and services

- Drive the specification of architecture and design patterns for developing digital architecture and microservices based solutions

- Consult and engage with engineering teams to solve problems at their root cause

- Create deliverables that provide exceptional clarity and connections to business objectives

- Assess emerging technologies and perform proof of concepts

- Collaborate with product teams, design teams, capability architects and provide optimized solutions that provide business outcomes

- Provide strategic direction and technical oversight pertaining to the implementation of new tools, technologies and solutions

- Good to have knowledge of BSS area like Customer, Product Management, Order Management, Catalog, Customer Interactions

- Good to know the TM Forum Open API's and ODA concepts

- Able to provide clarity from end to end journey from touchpoints to middleware to backend platforms

- Able to review and design API integrations

Your Profile :

- Demonstrable experience in solution architecture encompassing technical architecture, integration architecture, data architecture and application architecture

- Proven experience in architecting end to end solutions, working with diverse design teams, spread across the globe

- Proven experience in architecting and designing solutions across hybrid application landscape, consisting of legacy applications both COTS and homegrown applications as well as microservices, delivered using open source

- Experience in leading and implementing technology prototypes, proof of concepts, and reference implementations for new technologies

- Hands-on experience architecting, designing and implementing microservices solutions utilizing container-based technologies including Docker, Swarm, Compose and Kubernetes

- Demonstrated strategic thinking abilities and an enterprise-wide perspective

- History of executing with excellence: setting purposeful goals and achieving them through intelligent actions, which balancing competing priorities without losing momentum behind execution

- Experience leading through influence in a complex, large, matrixed, global environment

- Fluent in contemporary Digital technologies and platforms, including UX, APIs, MicroServices, XaaS Outstanding collaboration, strong influencing, problem solving and negotiation skills

- Understanding of observability patterns, monitoring and alerting setup

Social Skills :

- Abstract Thinking

- Analytical Thinking

- Effective Communications

- Critical Thinking

- Cross-functional Collaboration

- Customer Focus

- Decision Making

- Entrepreneurial Thinking

- Ability to Innovate

- Diversity Management

- Continuous Learning

- Logical Thinking

- Ability to organize

- Ability to convince

- Effective Presentations

- Solution competence

- Strategic Thinking

- Conflict Management