Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect (Finance)

This position does not offer immigration sponsorship (current or future) including F-1 STEM OPT extension support.

As a Solutions Architect, you'll be an expert in leveraging cloud-based solutions for large-scale enterprise systems. Your main responsibilities include creating and maintaining the overall architecture for a portfolio of projects, providing technical guidance during the design and build phases, and proactively addressing any technology roadblocks. To do this, you'll manage an architecture backlog, developing proofs of concept and reference implementations, and coordinating closely with other technology teams to ensure a smooth and efficient workflow.

• Architect, design and implement smart solutions in GCP/AWS using Cloud Native capabilities.
• Establish the high-level Solution Intent for given project or problem statement.
• Establish responsibilities of major logical components of the solution in collaboration with other team members.
• Develop architecture deliverables necessary to illustrate system behavior, including usage models, and cost of ownership models and failure analysis model.
• Ensure that the solution is aligned with the technology strategy, uses standard solution building blocks and can be built and operated in an efficient manner aligned with economic value of the project.
• Develop, analyze, split, and prioritize work required to implement the system's non-functional requirements.
• Provide technical oversight of implementation, keeping the final build and overall implementation aligned with the solution intent.

• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent job experience required.
• 7-10 years of experience architecting and developing software in the public cloud.
• Experience in monitoring infrastructure and application uptime and availability to ensure functional and performance objectives.
• Experience in one or more languages such as Python, Bash, Java, Go, JavaScript and/or node.js.
• Demonstrable cross-functional knowledge with systems, storage, networking, security and databases.
• Partner with Engineering, and SREs to analyze any outages or resiliency issues and provide remediation steps.
• Experience with microservice best practices and design patterns.
• Experience with event driven architecture and immutable data management patterns (CQRS).
• Proficiency with continuous integration and continuous delivery tooling and practices.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Cloud Certification Strongly Preferred.

• Application Development/Programming - Experience working with software design, programming languages (preferably Python, Java, Java script) and solution architecture. Knowledge of Event Driven Architecture, Functional/Object Oriented Programming.
• Cloud Services (AWS/GCP) - Leveraging cloud native GCP/AWS service while architecting particular product/platform.
• Dev Sec Ops  - Need to have a strong understanding of both security and Dev Ops principles. They need to be able to design and implement solutions that meet the security and compliance requirements of the organization. Ability to work with developers and operations teams to ensure that the solutions are implemented in a way that does not impact the development or deployment process.
• Technical Communication/Presentation - Demonstrates strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to tailor to specific audiences. Work with others to achieve results and proactively address sources of conflict and emotion with focus on the best solution for Equifax.
• Technology Advising/Consulting - Understand business goals and how to use technology to achieve them. Understand the IT environment and the challenges the unit is facing. Develop a technology solution that will help achieve the BU goals. Provide ongoing support to ensure that it continues to meet the goals. Monitor the solution for any potential problems and take corrective action as needed.