NIX Hiring For Solutions Architect (#1259) at Remote Work Full Time

N-iX is an international company with Ukrainian roots that helps businesses across the globe develop successful software products. Founded in 2002, N-iX has come a long way and increased its presence in eight countries spanning Europe, the US, and Latin America. Today, we are a strong community of 2,000+ professionals and a reliable partner for global industry leaders and Fortune 500 companies.

Technology Office designs and executes industry-relevant inventions that allow organizations to realize exceptional business value from technology. We are looking for a Solutions Architect. If you want to be a part of the Solution Group department, you would like to participate in consulting: pre- and discoveries, you would like to investigate new features of top technologies, so welcome to the team.
As a Solutions Architect, you will be at the forefront of N-iX global expansion, working with multiple work streams and stakeholders. This is a tremendous opportunity to prove yourself and unlock the new growth frontiers for the company.

Responsibilities:

• Drive architectural service executions such as Presale, Discovery, and Assessment
• Talk to the business to understand business and technical requirements for the project
• Communicate technical constraints and decisions to the business
• Facilitate cooperation of all the stakeholders to define and prioritize architectural drivers for the solution
• Cooperate with other architects and technology experts to produce solid architectural decisions
• Drive and coordinate technical staff discussions
• Elaborate system quality attributes such as performance, scalability, availability, fault-tolerance, security, deployment, maintainability, and others
• Translate customers’ business, functional, and non-functional requirements into high-quality solution architecture visions and operations plans consistent with enterprise architectural standards using Attribute Driven Design
• Define architecture strategies, standards, processes, technologies, and tools in architecture visions
• Drive or assist in solution implementation estimation and roadmap construction
• Analyze, model, document, and assess existing software architectures according to the Architecture Trade-off Analysis methodology
• Act as an expert and consult development teams on adherence to solution design, development, and testing standards
• Convey technical ideas to the development and operations teams
• Design and implement a large enterprise solution from scratch
• Lead technical briefings and business requirement gathering sessions
• Identify integration patterns and places for business automation
• Author technical documents that cover requirements, design and integration needs
• Provide input in each cycle of the development phase (development, test, and release) to ensure a leading-edge solution is produced
• Establish data quality check approaches, tools, and data governance 
• Provide mentorship, technical expertise and recommendations on the current and emerging strategies and platform trends to the team
• Manage client expectations and scope effectively
• Act in compliance to all Company Policies & Procedures

Rights:

• To take decisions within the provided authority and responsibilities, and to escalate issues to the appropriate stakeholders in case of need
• To obtain the benefits of cooperation as ensured by Company Policies & Procedures

Requirements:

• 8+ years of relevant industry experience
• 2+ experience as an Architect
• Proven experience of building architecture from scratch for big enterprise companies or participation as an architect at least in 2 big projects (longer than 9 months, team 10+)
• Experience with different clouds – AWS, Azure, GCP
• Experience in building scalable microservice-based architecture
• Strong knowledge of integration patterns and implementations
• Experience working with Kafka and other messaging brokers
• Strong creativity in problem-solving skills
• Communication & stakeholder management skills
• English – Upper-Intermediate/Advanced
• Must comply with internal technical competence model
• Superior time and project management skills
• Ability to present technical details to non-technical audiences
• Excellent problem-solving/analytical skills and complex troubleshooting methods
• Ability to work through ambiguous situations
• Excellent presentation, verbal, and written communication skills
• Self-motivated, able to work independently, and able to take initiative without always being directed
• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment and prioritize the most critical tasks and projects

Desirable Professional Certifications:

• SEI Software Architecture Professional 
• SCJP/SCJD/SCWCD/SCBCD/SCDJWS 
• MCP/MCTS/MCPD
• IBM SOA 
• TOGAF