Solution Architect
Randstad
- Vancouver, BC
- $66.00-79.00 per hour
- Contract
- Full-time
What's in it for you!
As a Solution Architect with our client, you'll receive:
- Highly competitive market hourly rates
- A 6 month contract with a strong probability of extension
- Remote interview processResponsibilities
What will you do?
- Solution/system Design of System architecture and roadmap
- Utilize architecture best practices and standards in design and build
- Design and document re-usable and scalable frameworks and components
- Provide first level effort and cost assessments to departmental initiatives
- Coordinate & collaborate with counterparts in other departments to ensure technology solutions are built for the enterprise
- Assist management in making technology decisions by weighing in on risk and ROI
- Participate and contribute to yearly strategic initiative planning and funding discussions
- Collaborate with Product Management, Domain Architects and Lead Engineer to bring projects from concept to implementation
- Serves as primary technical solution design architect for one or more teams and their systems and integrations
- Serves as primary decision escalation resource for addressing architecture and integration issues affecting their team
- Continuously drive improvements in areas like performance, security, automation, quality, monitoring, and reliability of platforms
- Develops and maintains current and future-state architecture models and ensures all documentation is kept up to date
- Keeps up with industry best practices, technologies, architectures, trends, emerging technologies and develop proof of concept projects to validate new ideasQualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience including at least 2 years at a retail/supply-chain organization in - Solution Architect capacity
- Well experienced in the Retail/Supply chain industry, familiar with application systems and business practices in this realm
- Experience solutioning end-to-end full-stack applications, integration of SaaS and PaaS systems
- Experience building technology roadmaps spanning 3-5 years
- Experience in vendor evaluation and scoring of new technologies/tools
- Excellent team player, ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Experience in mentoring technical team-members and providing technical leadership
- Familiarity with architectural frameworks and patterns
- Experience working in a SAFe ® /Agile environment
- Experience contributing to multiple medium to large size initiatives simultaneously
- Familiarity with streaming platforms (real-time data at massive scale like Confluent Kafka).
- Experience with AWS or other public clouds from a system design perspective
- Experience working with containers, Docker, Kubernetes or other container schedulers
- Experience with DevOps practices (i.e. CI/CD, Jenkins, Github, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Angular, datadog )
- Familiar with the project tools: Jira, Confluence, Teams, MS Office, SharePoint, Smartsheet and knowledge of agile practices
- Experience in other programming languages like JavaScript/TypeScript or Python is an assetSummary
If you are a Solution Architect and the prospect of joining a dedicated team intrigues you, then this role with our high-profile client could be the perfect opportunity for you.Apply below or reach out to your Randstad representative for more information.Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.