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At PwC our people in integration and platform architecture focus on designing and implementing seamless integration solutions and robust platform architectures for clients. They enable efficient data flow and optimise technology infrastructure for enhanced business performance.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: Bachelors 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: Java Spring Spring boot Microservices;
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
Education (if blank degree and/or field of study not specified)
Degrees/Field of Study required:Degrees/Field of Study preferred:Certifications (if blank certifications not specified)
Required Skills
Optional Skills
Accepting Feedback Accepting Feedback Active Listening Analytical Thinking Architectural Engineering Brainstorm Facilitation Business Impact Analysis (BIA) Business Process Modeling Business Requirements Analysis Business Systems Business Value Analysis Cloud Strategy Coaching and Feedback Communication Competitive Advantage Competitive Analysis Conducting Research Creativity Embracing Change Emotional Regulation Empathy Enterprise Architecture Enterprise Integration EvidenceBased Practice (EBP) Feasibility Studies 46 moreDesired Languages (If blank desired languages not specified)
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