Solution Architect Senior Manager Angular + Java + DevOps + PostgreSQL

Solution Architect (Senior Manager)

PwC Solution Architects are responsible for establishing the technical vision, direction and solution approach for our digital solutions, and work with our Tech Leads and developers (both onshore/offshore) to turn the vision into reality with an ontime and quality delivery. Solution Architects support concept development, architecture and design planning/estimation, and work with Product Managers to drive product development as a critical member of a product leadership team. Solution Architects are expected to have previous solution architecture, application architecture expertise along with full stack development experience utilizing agile development techniques/methodologies.

A Solution Architect will

Solution products/applications with a webbased systems architecture following microservices, eventdriven enterprise application architecture patterns

Provide and communicate unified technical vision for software products and breaks down vision into tangible tasks for developers

Lead by demonstration of technical expertise (i.e. handson) across full technology stack (frontend, backend, data modeling, 3rd party integration)

Manage performance of offshore and onshore developers through effective task breakdown, management, prioritization, and alignment of work to resource capabilities

Scale team productivity by decomposing user stories and features into individual units of work

Directly contribute with written code and provides code reviews to ensure adherence to solution design

Design solutions with appropriate data architecture, data modeling and data management considerations across relational, columnar and NoSQL

Design solutions with appropriate considerations for advanced predictive and prescriptive analytics

Participate in the cost estimation process by recommending the skills and numbers of developers required, and by performing effort estimation given product requirements

Coordinate with customer, product team disciplines (e.g. UX/UI, DevOps, QA) and other productrelated teams to build, test, and deploy software products

Identify technical risks and and proactively address issues that may have an impact on service levels or schedules

Understand and apply agile software development techniques/methodologies to effect continuous quality improvement across people and processes

Maintain responsibility for the quality and viability of software engineering deliverables by providing recommendations on technical solutions including design, build/buy decisions, opensource tooling, etc.

Collaborate with Product Management, and other Tech Leads to define the design, development, and support toolsets and processes to improve the overall efficacy of product teams

Providing direction and guidance, handson development support, code review, development oversight, and support to successfully deliver on time with quality

Contributing to ongoing process and methodology improvements; and, establishing architecture governance with compliance of technology solutions with architectural patterns and standards.

Minimum Year(s) of Experience At least 18+ years of experience in software development with at least 5+ years in application architecture and solution architecture, leading developers in delivery of software products.

Minimum Degree Required Bachelor s Degree

Degree Preferred Bachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field

Knowledge Preferred

Demonstrates intimate knowledge and/or a proven record of success in modern software engineering approaches, technologies, and tools

Cloudready architectures utilizing infrastructure and platform cloud services for Azure or AWS;

Eventdriven and microservices architectures;

Big Data / Analytics / AI tools;

DevOps virtualization, automation, continuous integration;

Mobile/Web architecture stacks;

Polyglot Persistence RDBMS/NoSQL data stores (SQLServer, Postgres, MongoDB, Couchbase) and appropriate use cases;

Rapidprototyping workflows & development tools;

Core Node;

Languages HTML/CSS, Javascript;

Frameworks/Libraries React;

Databases NoSQL (mongo, neo4j, firebase), relational (mySQL, postgres), SQL Server, Oracle;

Configuration Management (optional) Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform;

Messaging Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, GraphQL

Containers Docker, Kubernetes or any other related AWS.

Should have experience in GenAI development/integration with the application.

Skills Preferred

Demonstrates intimate abilities and/or a proven record of success in technical lead roles involving the following areas

Communicating, verbally and written, with both business and technical stakeholders to achieve product engineering objectives;

Leading across all aspects of a technology solution integration, data, services, frontend, backend, network, deployment, scaling, security, performance, development, etc.;

Managing rapidprototyping efforts with new and emerging technologies leveraging agile development techniques;

Designing successful technical/integration architectures for largescale platforms with a mix of 3rd party vendor, opensource, custom software, including the documentation of technical assumptions and decisions;

Contributing and managing incubators/innovation lab environments, and working with small teams across a variety of new and emerging technologies;

Working in an environment that leverages project management skills like planning and tracking, issue and risk management, multitasking, team organization, and activity prioritization; and,

Developing frontend, backend, and/or systems administration applications with strong proficiency in scripting language (React, Node, etc.).

Provide solution handoff and training for the new features to Operations and Production Support teams