Solutions Architect

Must be local to Hartford or Chicago

Contract position. ASAP start to 12-31-2025

$50-$63/hr on W2

Required Skills:

1. Significant experience with systems integration.

2. Experience with the design and development of complex systems; employs a disciplined and rigorous approach

3. Adept at requirements analysis, estimation, systems and application design, and testing

4. Familiarity with popular Design Patterns.

5. Excellent collaboration, influencing, and consensus-building skills. Ability to work with persons in all job functions (e.g. product, program, developers, Salesforce COE).

6. Excellent verbal and written communications

7. Ability to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision. Self-directed

8. A great team player, with demonstrable experience delivering superior software products via Agile methodologies

9. Experience on an Agile team

10. Experience with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies such as Java, JavaScript, Node.js, messaging queuing infrastructures, as well as cloud and on-premise infrastructure and services

11. Experience with distributed computing architectures, including race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency control"

Desired Skills

1. A proven track record working as part of a team on large architectural projects

2. Architectural/technical experience with Salesforce Service Cloud platform.

3. Experience designing REST APIs that facilitate a strong developer experience or simplify systems integration.

4. Experience with SAFe Software Development Principles

5. Experience with distributed caching solutions; understands the factors that enable effective caching

6. Meeting facilitation

7. Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps

8. Experience with RDBMS and/or NoSQL databases. Understands the benefits and trade-offs of both. Familiar with normalization and denormalization, sharding, and other data-centric patterns