Principle Solutions Architect

Principle Solution Architect

Location: San Diego, CA 25% onsite, 75% remote (1st 4 weeks required onsite, then one week a month for 3 months, then remote after the 4th month)

Duration: 6 + months

Description: The Principal Solution Architect role provides technical solutions and support for Customer's IT and Development department in alignment with all business departments and functions. The position requires deep technical competence in one or more technology domain with a strong understanding of multiple domains to lead end-to-end solution planning. Additionally, the role requires leadership and people management skills to communicate business and technical complexities to a variety of audiences. The role leads meetings, presentations and interactions with both technical and non-technical teams to provide guidance, facilitate decisions, drive implementations and be accountable for desired outcomes. Through normal operations, the Principal Solution Architect role interacts with business team leaders, IT senior leadership, enterprise architects, security, developers and infrastructure engineers.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Contributes to strategic leadership for business alignment, conceptual architecture and technical designs.
  
• Accountable to provide leadership to technical planning for roadmaps, programs, projects, and initiatives
  
• Accountable for architectures and designs in alignment with roadmaps, programs, projects, and initiatives.
  
• Accountable for aligning life-cycle management planning to budgets and roadmaps.
  
• Accountable for aligning corrective actions for audits, incidents and problems to roadmaps and technical solutions.
  
• Accountable for business outcomes based on implemented technology solutions.
  
• Provides leadership to organize, manage and drive cross-team project initiatives and deliverables.
  
• Provides support for environment maintenance, problem management and incident resolution.
  
• Provides project task delivery and environment support during business hours, nights and weekends as needed.
  
• Provides constructive feedback on people, process, and technology for continuous improvement.
  

Required Experience:

• 5+ years of hands-on technical experience in at least one technology domain (network, compute, database, middleware, development, etc.)
  
• Demonstrated ability to work with technical teams on planning, organizing, prioritizing and problem solving.
  
• Demonstrated ability to work and communicate effectively with all levels of business and IT management.
  
• Demonstrated ability to deliver enterprise solutions governed by compliance policies, change control and project methodologies.
  
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate solutions to complex problems across multiple business and/or technical areas and vendors.
  
• Demonstrated ability to create and communicate a vision for business and technical solutions.
  

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled