Location : onsite Columbus, OH 5 days a week
Duration : 2 years
Rate : $85 on W2 (NO C2C)
Healthcare experience is required
Position Summary
The solutions architect proactively and holistically lead and supports domain-level activities that guide developing and managing a portfolio of solutions. Solutions include projects, systems (including applications, technologies, processes, and information), and shared infrastructure and application services. Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders and IT development teams. Technology-neutral, motivated, and driven by achieving long-term business outcomes. Ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead cross-functional teams.
Understands business goals, objectives and outcomes, business capabilities, value streams, and business processes and their importance in solution architecture.
The solutions architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis, and design tasks related to supporting the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards.
Job Description
- Certifications in cloud computing, data architecture, and data analytics. You should be a Certified Solutions Architect, AI Data engineer, or Data Scientist from Azure, AWS, or Google. If not, you should get it within 3 months of joining.
- End-to-end data architectures leverage cloud services for storage, processing, analysis, and visualization. Consider integrating with on-premises systems and multi-cloud scenarios for hybrid data architectures and disaster recovery strategies. Understand the organization's data requirements, including volume, variety, velocity, and veracity.
- Design ingesting data from various sources, including databases, streaming platforms, IoT devices, and third-party APIs. Implement data integration pipelines using cloud-native services like AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, or Google Cloud Dataflow.
- Design data storage solutions using cloud-native data stores such as Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, and relational or NoSQL databases like Amazon RDS and Azure SQL Database. Implement data partitioning, indexing, and optimization techniques.
- Architect data processing pipelines for transforming, enriching, and analyzing data at scale. Cloud-native services like Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and serverless frameworks for data processing and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) workflows. Define solutions using cloud-based analytics platforms (e.g., Azure Synapse Analytics, AWS Redshift, Google BigQuery) and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau). Enable self-service analytics capabilities for end users.
- Define data governance policies and security controls to ensure data integrity, privacy, and regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA). Implement encryption, access controls, and auditing mechanisms to protect sensitive data.
- Incorporate machine learning and AI capabilities into data solutions for predictive analytics, anomaly detection, recommendation systems, and other advanced use cases. Leverage cloud services like Azure Machine Learning for model training and deployment.
- Implement monitoring and logging solutions to track the performance, reliability, and cost of cloud data solutions. Continuously optimize resource utilization, automate scaling, and identify cost-saving opportunities. Position requirements
Understand & Translate Business Needs (30%)
Apply Technology (25%)
Provide Enterprise Guidance (15%)
Qualifications
Master's degree in business, information systems, related discipline, or equivalent and extensive related project experience in health care is preferred.Overall, 12 or more years' relevant experience, a minimum of 8 years of experience in at least 5 IT solutions development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware or database managementMinimum of 2 to 3 years in cloud implementations focusing on data & enterprise analytics or AI / MLExposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms, and processing environmentsGood understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends and the practical application of existing and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating modelsGood understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debtExperience working in a relevant industry is helpful but not requiredExperience developing architecture blueprints, strategies, and roadmapsExperience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiencesOrganizationally savvy, with the ability to navigate organizational politicsSkilled at influencing, guiding, and facilitating decision-making with stakeholders and peersAbility to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and non-technical audiencesAbility to understand situations' long-term ( big picture ) and short-term perspectivesAbility to translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirementsAbility to propose and estimate the financial impact of solution architecture alternatives SKILLSKnowledge of various backend development languages like Java, ASP.Net, and PythonKnowledge of various database technologies like MySQL, MongoDB, Microsoft, and OracleKnowledge of various front-end web development languages like JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and web content sites.Knowledge of various aspects of technology architecture like cloud, integration, network, and securityKnowledge of financial models and budgetingUnderstanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and DevOps)Understanding and knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)Knowledge of different modeling languages (such as UML and ArchiMate)Understanding of IT standards and controlsExcellent understanding of application development methodologies and infrastructure and network architectureExcellent analytical, planning, organizational, and technical skills