Solutions Architect (Local to IL)

Sonoma Consulting • Des Plaines, IL, United States • $200k - $250k / year • 1m ago

Halo Group is a premier provider of IT talent. We place technology experts within
the teams of the world’s leading companies to help them build innovative
businesses that keep them one step closer to their customers and one step
ahead of the competition. We offer a meaningful work environment for
employees, attractive and interesting engagements for consultants, and cutting-edge
digital innovation for our customers.

We delight in helping our customers execute their digital vision. Big projects or
small, Halo Group knows that by combining the highest quality talent with our
unwavering support, we will become an invaluable extension of the team. Halo
Group's experienced consultants in Detroit, Atlanta and Dallas specialize in all
areas of product/project governance, UX/UI, multi-platform applications, quality
assurance/testing, cloud computing, and data analytics.

Job Description

Job Description:

Focused on your fleet and driving optimal results to your business. Wheels is the world’s most experienced automotive fleet leasing and management company, and a trusted industry leader. We provide organizations around the world with company cars and trucks along with state-of-the-art services and support.

We’re the largest privately held fleet management company. In fact, with more than $1.6 billion in annual sales and nearly $3 billion in assets, we’re one of North America’s largest private companies in any industry.
Our single line of business gives us a dedicated focus. Fleet leasing and management are all we do, so we’re able to commit 100% of our resources to delivering innovative fleet solutions for our clients.
Find us around the corner and around the world. With more than 300,000 vehicles under management throughout North America and more than 1.6 million globally, chances are you see a Wheels vehicle on the road every day.
We service some of the world’s best-known companies. Our client portfolio includes dozens of Fortune 500 businesses and other leading organizations who view their sales or service fleets as a strategic business tool.
Solutions Architect

Under general direction, formulate/define system scope and objectives for key business systems through multiple releases.

Devise or modify procedures to solve complex problems.
Develop prototypes and prepare detailed specifications from which programs will be written.
Analyze and revise existing system logic difficulties and documentation as necessary.
Lead development, debugging and testing of client/server and web applications, including but not limited to graphical user interface development SOA Service development and SQL database development, as well as program maintenance when necessary.
Work at the highest technical level through all phases of Wheels' Application Development methodology.
Develop and mentor Tech Leads across development teams.
Participate with Architecture on technology.
Stay informed on SDLC best practices and actively drive process improvements and adoption across the development teams.

Responsibilities:

Business Relations

Gain deep understanding of the business capabilities and objectives for the business area supported.
Work with business leaders and users to gain understanding of challenges and opportunities that can be addressed through potential technology solutions.
Implement technology capabilities and solutions that support and enable the business strategy, processes and objectives for the business area supported.
Ensure a cross-functional view and roadmap to maximize business value of technology investments for business area supported.

Solution Design

Lead development and communication of end-to-end vision for technical solutions that may be implemented across multiple phases, including road maps for stable transition from existing systems to new solutions
Identify buy vs. build opportunities and evaluate candidate package solutions where appropriate
Facilitate the development of Non-Functional Requirements (technical requirements) balancing the needs of business owners with technical feasibility; explain and negotiate the tradeoffs and cost/effort.
Architectural and Technical Roadmap
Work directly with the Enterprise Architecture team to validate the consistency of a solution design with the strategic technology direction and standards.
Work with Enterprise Architecture on development and/or enhancements to strategic technology direction and standards, representing and advocating the development teams’ perspective.
Partner with Architecture on technology direction, and the related evaluations, POCs and decisions.
Communicate new requirements to the Enterprise team and work with them on an ongoing basis to extend the Enterprise Architecture standards and guidance.

Team Development

Work with technical leads to ensure performance, availability, scalability, integrity and usability.
Champion and gain buy in from the Tech Leads and development teams for strategic technology direction and standards.
Mentor and develop Tech Lead capabilities.
Actively drive common standards, best practices and process improvements across the development teams.
Work with PMs, Tech Leads and Developers to ensure proper solution implementations, with adherence to all required standards.
Coordination and Organizational Improvement
Coordinate with infrastructure regarding structure, implementation and monitoring of solutions, across environments
Coordinate with release management to drive automation of all deployment artifacts.
Coordinate with security architect to drive adoption of enterprise security standards.
Coordinate with QA on proper strategies to ensure quality; collaborate with QA to develop performance and load test scenarios.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

Excellent technology design knowledge and expertise including extensive knowledge of one or more of the following:

Microsoft .NET Framework up to and including 4.6+
Web Application Development, including server-side and RIA
Angular JS, and related UI technologies (gulp/NPM/etc)
Automated build, test, and deployment technologies
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
Performance Analysis and Performance Engineering
UI Prototyping techniques
Service Oriented Architecture and Service Modeling
DevOps concepts and strategies

Excellent ability to understand corporate strategy and technology direction and translate business needs into effective technology designs.

Excellent organizational and planning skills
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Excellent inter-personal skills
Ability to actively participate and audit artifacts from multiple, concurrent projects
Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community
Desire to share knowledge and help others build their careers
Orientation toward continuous improvement

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

BS degree and minimum 5+ years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.