Onsite
Full Time Software Architecture & Engineering
Responsibilities
Evaluate requests for solution architecture services that have been submitted to have starting requirements and stakeholders identified.
Ensure that business outcomes / problem statement / requirements / use cases are adequately documented by requestor / Business System Analyst (BSA) / product owner.
Review request against existing service offering matrix to determine Service Level Agreement (SLA).
Work with product organization to prioritize work against other competing priorities.
Create draft artifacts and begin investigation, exploration, technologies available and other constraints that may be involved.
Identify any additional stakeholders, both business and technology.
Engage relevant vendors, technology owners/SMEs, Enterprise Architecture, Security Architecture, product owners to ensure feasibility, best practices, standards, and expectations are met.
Create UML use case diagram(s), component diagram(s), sequence diagram(s) including textual details for each step.
Create Business Process Mapping Notation (BPMN) context diagram, functional flow diagram, cross‑functional flow diagram, and application configuration flowchart diagram.
Review and evaluate options and technologies available that could be used to satisfy the requested service offering.
Know and understand many different technologies and how they relate to each other.
Document assumptions, risks, and decisions.
Ensure/document/confirm deliverables align to documented architectural guiding principles.
Present deliverables in design review to all stakeholders.
Obtain artifact approval from all necessary stakeholders.
Articulate cost/benefit or trade‑off analysis (e.g., guiding principles, technologies, etc.).
Formulate, document and defend new technology strategies.
Perform peer review of other designs.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.
5+ years of experience in IT architecture preferred.
Understanding of NICE Actimize platform preferred.
Strong understanding of containerization platforms such as RedHat OpenShift, Kubernetes, AKS, etc.
Strong understanding of Microservice design patterns.
Familiarity with 12‑factor app and cloud‑native design principles.
Familiarity with different types of UML diagrams.
Familiarity with Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN).