Digital Solution Architect II

Primary Talent Partners has a new contract opening for a Digital Solution Architect II with our large power and utilities client in Charlotte, NC. This is a 12-month contract with a potential for extension. 


Pay: $64.00 - $74.00/hr; W2 contract, no PTO, no Benefits. ACA-compliant supplemental package available for enrollment. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must be able to sit on Primary Talent Partners W2 without sponsorship.


Description:
As a Digital Solution Architecture within Digital IT, you will drive the strategic direction for Digital application development and delivery to Cloud. This includes working with a small team of Solution architects, designing technological approaches that modernize our application stack and enabling our Agile teams to deliver with quality and speed.

The ideal candidate is passionate about technology, especially when it comes to the benefits and opportunities cloud infrastructure brings to an Enterprise. In this role, you'll be asked to provide in-depth technical expertise on decisions pertaining to a cloud migration. You'll partner with our Cyber, Enterprise & Modern Architecture and Infrastructure teams to enable flexible applications patterns driven by business use cases. Most importantly, you'll be an integral part of client's technology strategy, partnering closely with our Product teams to translate business requirements into scalable, flexible and secure cloud solutions.


The Work Itself:

• Accelerate client's ability to Build & Migrate applications and workloads to the Cloud
• Work with a team of Digital Solution architects & CoP's/CoE's within client IT
• Architect and design C4 artifacts throughout the entire Digital space including Cloud, Web, Mobile, AI, API, SaaS, and COTS products
• Architecting complex Big Data/AI/ML Analytics product migrations to Cloud (AWS)
• Create technical designs (Activity Diagrams/Sequence Diagrams, API service specifications and message models) through a close partnership with Enterprise Architecture, Application Product teams, Infrastructure teams and other support teams across enterprise
• Provide technical leadership and guidance during development, testing and delivery of features
• Experience leading and influencing individuals at multiple levels, encouraging the establishment of high performing and self-sustaining cross-functional teams
• Review business and non-functional requirements to capture and understand project/product requirements
• Challenge the status quo to breakthrough legacy thought processes, and drive client technology forward to match best-in-class Cloud technology organizations
• Ability to be flexible and support any aspect of the Digital organization on demand, including product, development, delivery
• Knowledge of industry-leading application trends, and help development teams incorporate modern approaches into Digital application roadmaps
• Provide expertise and feedback into Agile Operating Model, ensuring that methodology enables all aspects of our technology strategy
• Ability to influence and guide product solutions with technology best practices
• Ability to effectively communicate technical solutions and recommendations to senior level management
  
  

The Skills You Bring:

• 5-7 years of experience designing, developing, and leading web applications
• Data management experience working with the collection, storing, and visualization of real-time operations data - experience with Aveva PI system is preferred but not required
• Leading Product teams to the Cloud (Terraform, S3, Lambda, Kinesis, Athena, EC2, EKS, EMR)
• Experience designing and delivering applications using AWS, Azure, SaaS
• 5 years of experience in AI/ML architecture or related roles
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure) and their AI/ML services (Bedrock, Claude)
• Prior success as an engineer working on challenging problems and world class digital solutions
• Experience using Terraform (CI/CD) to ensure high quality and repeatable deliverables of software products, including delivery of infrastructure as code
• Architecting Enterprise-grade, highly available Products with Real-Time Streaming (Kafka)
• Proven ability to multi-task and contribute to several concurrent projects and initiatives
• Experience managing and coaching other IT Architects and Lead Engineers as well as peers
• Knowledge in utility forecasting, GRID planning or DERMs solutions would be useful
• Significant experience on multiple SDLC methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall)
• Experience with externalizing APIs for 3rd party consumption
• AA w/ 5 years' experience -or- 7 years' experience in technology architecture and/or leadership experience
• BS / MS / PhD in in Computer Science, Math or related engineering fields or equivalent practical experience
  
  

Primary Talent Partners is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity, or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

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