Sr Solutions Architect

*** Exciting Opportunity for ( Sr. Solutions Architect ) 100% Remote ***

JobTitle: Sr. Solutions Architect

Location: 100% REMOTE/ Chicago

Need only USC/GC

American company providing animal health products and related services. Until 2019 it was the animal health business of VetsFirstChoice and Henry Schein before being divested. In 2021 the company ranked 593 on the Fortune 1000 list of the largest United States

Job Description

A great architect has a strong and diverse technical background with excellent development cloud and IT skills. Their experience in designing solutions allows them to develop a unified vision for application characteristics and functions.

Responsibilities

Lead the design of a comprehensive and cohesive API Platform and Developer Portal across our products and applications. Solve crosscutting concerns like:

o Access Control and Authorization

o Administration and Billing

o Monitoring and reporting

o Asynchronous event publication

o Registration and selfservice

Establish maintain evangelize and communicate an ongoing strategic architectural vision for Covetrus integrations.

Evaluate requirements for technical and functional gaps against existing platforms and establish a roadmap to deliver these capabilities in a sustainable way that promotes maximum reuse. The ability to elicit and identify requirements for the solution is a must.

Collaborate and influence peer technical partners and business leaders toward a published technical vision.

Ensure our technological solutions meet the highest standards of security stability performance and scalability.

Key Contributor in the development of strategic planning ensuring linkage to the overall strategic business objectives of the corporation.

Identify problems and issues collect and integrate information from a variety of sources to establish a course of action and communicate the architectural issues and solutions clearly and concisely.

Collaborate with team members on tactical design to ensure deliverables are technically accurate and useful.

Analyze problems from a practical point of view and evaluate ideas and suggestions to help the teams make balanced factbased decisions.

Identify critical architectural design activities & tasks on projects help with functional epic and enabling feature estimation and planning ensure timely and accurate communication of status and contribute beyond assigned tasks adjusting priorities when appropriate.

Contribute to project success by providing ideas and strategies improving communication among team members and executing decisions.

Lead in training motivating mentoring and serving as a mentor to others on the team.

Skills and Abilities

Extensive experience with integration protocols and patterns including Eventdriven and Asynchronous API Protocols

Experience with Kong API Gateway and Dev Portal is highly desired

Data Platform and/or ETL/ELT experience highly desirable preferably Spark or Databricks Delta Sharing

Knowledge of query standards like OData and GraphQL