Solutions Architect

Onward Search is a specialized staffing and talent solutions company that helps professionals find top jobs with the nation’s leading brands. We’re hiring a Solutions Architect for a fully remote contract opportunity with a leading healthcare company.

Solutions Architect Responsibilities:

• Receive epic/feature assignments and general direction from train architect.
• Partner with Product Owner, BA, and Development technical leads to refine/understand requirements.
• Partner with Solution Domain Lead architects (if necessary) to seek guidance or vet solutions impacting other domains.
• Collaborate with integration architect to deliver solution artifacts (sketch, PowerPoint, etc.).
• Continuously attain and refine business and systems subject matter expertise.
• Leverage architecture patterns for the solution and create them if covering new ground.
• Present solution sketches to various stakeholders (SS architect team, Infrastructure SMEs, business, etc.) for review and feedback.

Solutions Architect Qualifications:

• Significant experience with systems integration.
• Experience with the design and development of complex systems; employs a disciplined and rigorous approach.
• Adept at requirements analysis, estimation, systems and application design, and testing.
• Familiarity with popular Design Patterns.
• Excellent collaboration, influencing, and consensus-building skills. Ability to work with persons in all job functions (e.g. product, program, developers, etc.).
• Excellent verbal and written communications.
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision. Self-directed.
• Strong team player, with demonstrable experience delivering superior software products via Agile methodologies.
• Experience on an Agile team.
• 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.
• Experience with distributed computing architectures, including race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency control.
• Skilled at meeting facilitation with stakeholders, partners, and team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven track record working as part of a team on large/complex systems.
• Architectural/technical experience with cloud native, especially AWS and GCP and their cloud offerings.
• Experience with RDBMS and/or NoSQL databases (i.e. MongoDB). Understands the benefits and trade-offs of both. Familiar with normalization and denormalization, sharding, and other data-centric patterns.
• Architectural/technical experience with Gen AI (RAG frameworks, Vector DB searches and embeddings, etc.) and/or Conversational AI (IBM WatsonX, Google Dialog Flow, etc.).
• Experience designing REST APIs that facilitate a strong developer experience or simplify systems integration.
• Experience with SAFe Software Development Principles.
• Experience with distributed caching solutions; understands the factors that enable effective caching.
• Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps.
• Experience with ServiceNow or Salesforce for case management, workflow-based solutions.

Primary Technologies:

• API-first centric enterprise.
• GCP (big data), AWS (digital experience/compute), Azure cloud (compute).
• Salesforce Service Cloud for user experience (GPS and some MX).
• Workflow experience with ServiceNow.

Perks & Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance.
• Life Insurance.
• 401(k) Program.
• Commuter Benefit.
• eLearning.
• Education Reimbursement.
• Ongoing Training & Development.

*To qualify for our benefits package, you must work over 30 hours per week and the length of assignment must be a minimum of 10 weeks.

If you meet the qualifications and are excited about this opportunity, apply today! Our team will connect with you to discuss next steps, support you through the interview process, and advocate for your success.

There is no application deadline.

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About Onward Search

Onward Search is a nationwide staffing agency and talent solutions provider specializing in creative, marketing, and technology professionals. We work with our nationwide clients to continuously pipeline and fill specialized roles. As such, not all jobs contain an application deadline.

Equal Opportunity Employment

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other protected category. Candidates must be at least 18 years old to be considered for employment.

EOE/M/F/D/V/SO

Inclusive Hiring Practices

We’re committed to making every part of our hiring process accessible and inclusive. If you need any accommodations or adjustments to support you during the application or interview process, please contact us at inclusivehiring@onwardsearch.com.

Employment Eligibility

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired must verify their identity and eligibility to work in the United States. We are unable to support 1099 / Corp-to-Corp / Independent Contractor arrangements. All freelancers will be hired as W2 employees.

Benefits

We offer medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as a 401(k) retirement plan to all eligible full-time temporary employees. Onward Search is a drug-free workplace.

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Virtual Interview Process

To help streamline the hiring process and ensure a more flexible and accessible experience for all candidates, we’ve partnered with Apriora, a virtual interviewing platform. For select job openings, you may receive an invitation to interview with Alex, our virtual interviewer, via email at alex@onwardsearch.com.

Alex will guide you through a brief set of questions to help us better understand your background and interests. The virtual interview can be completed on your own time, and your responses will be reviewed by our recruiting team as part of the screening process.

To learn more about the platform, visit Apriora’s website.

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