Solution Architect

Job Propose: 

SoftServe is looking for Solutions Architect to join the Solution Center of Excellence.

The Team provides the following major services to both internal and external clients: technical support during the sales process, proposals creation, architecture design, estimation, technology assessments, and comparisons, prototyping (technical, functional, and non- functional), discovery phases execution, troubleshooting, and crisis management activities. The team consists of around 80 professionals and is consistently growing.

Main Activities:

• Participation in proposals preparation with all different parties and stakeholders and workflows
• Estimation and scope decomposition
• Risk assessment, defining dependencies and assumptions
• Technical specifications and architecture vision document creation
• Technology assessments and comparisons
• Participation in discovery phases and workshops covering all technical aspects of the deal
• Prototypes and proof-of-concept creation with their further delivery and presentation to the stakeholders
• Participation in the implementation phase defining and creating the core of that or another system,  transferring the knowledge to the development team

Requirements:

Technical skills:

• 8-10+ years of experience in Software Development 
• Solid understanding one of the technologies (Java, .NET, Python, WebUI, Mobile Development or other)
• and hands-on experience with WebUI software development, frameworks, and architecture
• Understanding of given technology ecosystem, pros, and cons, available modules, and libraries. Hands-on experience with it
• Skills and experience around integration, customization, and configuration of different types of tools. Integration of modules to applications, APIs, services, data flows etc. 
• Experience with design, defining quality attributes and technical drivers, development of application- and solution-scale systems. Experience with architecture modeling tools (e.g. UML etc.)
• Experience with the creation of technical specifications or architecture visions covering quality attributes, diagrams, associated risks, technical and system requirements
• Proven experience in leading small teams of engineers to drive them, decompose the complexity to tasks, mentor them and back-up if needed, communicate and convince around that or another decision
• Understanding the roles of other stakeholders who do not report to the person but take very active participation in design, decision making, selling, implementation and other activities (like a sales team, delivery team etc.) 

Soft skills:

• Willingness to learn something new - either around core technology stack, or even new related technologies
• Ability to communicate and advocate a proposed technical solution
• Ability to estimate efforts and justify them in front of customer and delivery organization, ability to get buy-ins from different parties • Positive thinking and state of mind
• Willingness to deal with multi-tasking and pretty dynamic environments with the priorities which might change really quickly, flexibility
• A desire to participate in different proof-of-concept and prototyping activities, technologies assessments and comparisons exercises
• Presentation skills have to be in place, at least to some certain extent. At the end of the day we are technical guys, not sales, but still, we have to be proven in delivering our messages in a clear and certain way so that everyone (even non-technical guys) understands why that or another decision took place