Job Description
Job Description
Genesis10 is currently seeking a Solution Architect for a hybrid position (3 days per week) with a Public Sector Organization located in Minneapolis, MN. This is a contract opportunity.
Compensation: $80.00 - $95.00 per hour, W2, based on qualifications
Position Overview:
The Solution Architect will provide input for developing IT strategic plans, architectures, and standards required to support the client's business and technology vision. This role will also play a key part of the design and support of enterprise level systems and project and application lifecycles.
Key Responsibilities:
- Contributes to strategy, principles, policies and roadmaps for the IT organization
- Develops technical capability roadmaps
- Designs technical solutions that align to enterprise standards
- Minimizes technical debt from project delivery by ensuring alignment with current and future technical direction of the organization
- Collaborates with business stakeholders, business analysts, and project managers to understand requirements
- Conducts and facilitates proof of concepts for exploring new solution options that may not have an established pattern
- Acts as the technical project liaison between IT, managed service providers, vendors, and support teams to help guide, challenge, and recommend IT solutions
- Determines level of involvement needed for a Solution Architect on a given project and communicate/adjust as necessary
- Assists with knowledge transfer and project transition steps to appropriate teams/owners/operations
- Create and maintain architecture and design artifacts for end-to-end Solution Architecture (Solution Design Documents, Software Architecture Documents, etc)
- Facilitate effective meetings, information requirements sessions, advocate compromises and resolve conflicts
- Assist in supporting legacy business applications by providing expertise, troubleshooting and hands-on issue remediation
- Stays abreast of emerging technologies and potential application to the organization
Primary Requirements:
- At least 8+ years of experience with the design, development and integration of highly critical applications
- Strong analytical and decision-making skills and enterprise mindset
- Experience architecting systems for high availability, failover, disaster recovery, and redundancy
- Experience delivering COTS solutions and applications
- Proven record of delivering technology solutions within agreed upon timeframes
- Able to function well in loosely structured situations. Works effectively in situations involving uncertainty or lack of information including troubleshooting of existing systems
- Skilled communicator and negotiator with exceptional written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Experience working with Microsoft Azure Cloud
- Effectively handles multiple projects or tasks at the same time
- Experience retiring and consolidating obsolete systems onto a modernized platform
- Curious about new technologies and processes. Always seeking way to improve and share knowledge with others
Desired Skills:
- Strong understanding of API and web services (REST/SOAP)
- Knowledge or understanding of O365/Azure AD and related capabilities
- Experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Experience working with the Microsoft Power Platform including Logic Apps, Power BI, Power Apps, and Power Automate
- Understanding in infrastructure security techniques
- Knowledge of databases, warehouses, business intelligence systems and data analysis and management tools
- Strong SQL skills
Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.
If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!
Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.
For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:
- Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years
- The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years
- Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average)
- Behavioral Health Platform
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Health Savings Account
- Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
- Voluntary Term Life Insurance
- 401K
- Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
- Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)
For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all of our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.
Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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