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Solutions Architect

CHICAGO-60602, IL, US
08/31/2018

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Required Skills

HTML5

Company

Infinity Consulting Solutions, Inc

Experience

5 to 7 Year(s)

Job Description

Solutions Architect

The Solutions Architect will be responsible for the digital architecture of existing systems, creating high-level architectural specifications, ensuring feasibility, functionality, and integration with existing systems/platforms and third party systems.
The Solutions Architect will review and design for large enterprise level systems, identify and determine technologies that will enhance development of products and services.

The Solutions Architect will participate in strategic and tactical planning and design sessions with product management, application management, other discipline architects, operations and software engineering teams.

Activities will include:

Integration strategy of core systems that interface with Digital (ESB implementations, API frameworks, etc.)

Collaboration on UI/UX Digital strategy

Collaboration on overall Digital Data architecture

Design and creation of new applications design patterns using Microsoft stack as well as other open source solutions where applicable

Define Mobile software solutions in the Android/iOS application environments

Responsibilities:

Strategic

Perform gap analysis of current architecture and implementations against strategic roadmaps

Lead high level designs and prototyping initiatives for web and mobile platforms

Assist management in the development and execution of online and mobile strategic plans

Development:

Assist management in establishing and enforcing team best practices, policies and procedures

Perform periodic code reviews and mentoring to Software Engineers.

Ensuring all development practices are in compliance

Keep abreast of new technologies that affect web and mobile development to enhance the learning and development of team members

Operational:

Assessing and improving on current architectures, especially in scaling and performance

Producing key technical architecture deliverable such as technical requirements documentation & conceptual technical architecture

Provide guidance and training to other credit union employees to assist in applicable requirements and administration of policy and procedures for web and mobile applications.

Qualifications:

You'll be a great fit if in addition to the Completion of a Master's degree in Computer Science or related field, with 7 years in application development using .NET Framework, you have:

A minimum of 5 years' experience in mobile application development; preferably using Xamarin Framework

Technical knowledge in software development methodologies, design and implementation required.

Application Layer Technologies: .NET framework, MVC Framework, NUnit, Mocking techniques using MOQ, MSMQ, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET Custom Resource provider, Entity Framework, WCF, ASMX, SOAP, XSLT, XML, WSDL, REST based web service

Database Layer Technologies: SSIS, Crystal Reports, SSRS, MS SQL, Stored Procedures, DTS, Triggers, Views

Application Security: Security using SSL, Client Certificate Authentication, Windows
Authentication using Active Directory programming

User Interface Technologies: WinForms, WebForms, MVC, Custom .net UI Controls for WebForms, Custom helpers in MVC framework, AJAX, JSON, HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Angular JS

Software Development Methodology: Agile development methodology, SOA Technical Designs,
Business requirement gathering, Multi-tier applications with thorough knowledge and
experience in each layer, Web Farm environment, Production Support

Preferred Technical Skills:

Mobile Development Technologies: HTML5/CSS3 and related technologies, Apple X Toolkit,
Android SDK, mCommerce Application Development, Objective C, Swift, Cross platform development tools (Xamarin), Mobile Device testing, Adaptive/Responsive Front End Design Patterns

Content Distribution Network Technologies: Akamai or other competitors

Other skills:

Must have good communication and collaboration skills.

Solid diagnostic, testing, and problem-solving skills.

Good organizational and time management skills.

Ability to adapt to a fast-paced and changing environment.

Must be enthusiastic, team-oriented with a positive attitude.