Solutions Architect 4
100% Remote: Yes
Strongsville OH- preferred about once a month for a couple days but remote option
Key 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.
Creation of 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 feasibly, best practices, standards, and expectations are met
Creation of UML use case diagram(s), component diagram(s), sequence diagram(s) including textual details for each step.
Creation of 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
Must have technical skills/experience: In order of importance
OAuth 2.0 (tokens, scopes, grant types, clients)
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0
Unified Modeling Language (UML) developmental modeling language
Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) diagrams
Transmit Security, Client Entra, Ping Identity or similar customer identity providers
Kubernetes, OpenShift, or similar container based systems
Kafka, MQ, or similar event or messaging based systems
Flex Skills:
1+ year experience with source code using git or similar distributed version control.
1+ year experience with technical documentation creation using Confluence or similar wiki systems.
1+ year experience with work assignment issue tracking using Jira or similar ticket systems.
Degrees or certifications for the candidate to be successful:
Prefer security certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CSSP), Certified Identity and Access Manager (CIAM) and Certified Identity Management Professional (CIMP).