DirecciónCompany Overview:
Lean Tech is a rapidly expanding organization situated in Medellín, Colombia. We pride ourselves on possessing one of the most influential networks within software development and IT services for the entertainment, financial, and logistics sectors. Our corporate projections offer a multitude of opportunities for professionals to elevate their careers and experience substantial growth. Joining our team means engaging with expansive engineering teams across Latin America and the United States, contributing to cutting-edge developments in multiple industries.
We seek a Senior Solutions Architect with a solid English level to join our team. Here are the challenges that our next warrior will face and the requirements we look for:
Position Title: Senior Solutions Architect
Location: Remote
What You Will Be Doing:
Communication/Collaboration:
- Effectively communicate and present technical designs, solutions, and architectures to executives in a concise manner.
- Demonstrate excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with peer-level, executive, and all engineering levels.
- Be responsive, flexible, creative, open to change, and have a high degree of initiative.
- Work across the enterprise to understand dependencies with other applications, cross-team solutions, and enterprise best practices and direction.
- Proactively break down silos to envision and co-create products with cross-team, cross-company communication and collaboration.
- Ensure an open and collaborative technical environment with other Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects, and Engineers.
- Work independently and collaboratively with a team(s).
- Solution Domain:
- Demonstrate strong conceptual and problem-solving skills.
- Know the details of the entire solution's architecture, topology, and integrations. Understand what tools are used, processes in place, failover strategies, and environment/connectivity patterns.
- Understand the interdependencies of the team's solutions with other enterprise applications.
- Document topology/solution architecture for current state, as well as topology/solution for future state.
- Provide proposed arch designs/patterns/diagrams for new solution integrations.
- Document decisions/designs via ADRs.
- Understand the broader ecosystem and how business processes work. Incorporate this knowledge and connect the dots for the engineers.
Technical Domain:
- Follow roadmap/product roadmap and releases of vendor technology used by their team. Understand when new functionality is becoming available, how it could impact/improve team solutions as well as overall solution architecture. Work with vendors to articulate additional product enhancements needed or desired. Influence product roadmaps.
- Work with vendors to articulate product issues/challenges, help teams to get to resolution.
- Have hands-on working knowledge of coding languages that the teams utilize.
- Have extensive experience and knowledge with technologies and products the teams utilize or will need to utilize. Stay up to date with these technologies through training and research.
- Investigate new technologies and techniques and research ongoing industry developments through a partnership with the Enterprise Architecture team.
- Partner with the leadership team in identifying gaps and providing improvement strategies to foster continuous improvement.
- Ability to dive into the code and propose recommendations to an issue or adjustments as needed.
- Engage in critical support situations and effectively, efficiently, and quickly drive to successful resolutions.
- Ensure teams are documenting and following best practices around security, data access, design standards, and coding standards. Propose and guardrails to monitor/enforce adherence.
- Ensure teams designs and processes are reusable and eliminate redundancy.
- Planning/Budget:
- Partner with the manager for financial planning and budgeting for technology investments and software expenses. Provide input and guidance to ensure cost management and spend on technology.
- Support talent identification, growth plans/opportunities, mentors.
- Create/maintain technology roadmaps (short and long term) - looking at future tech solutions (or plan b items), technical debt to address, future arch states and improvements to help meet business needs.
- Ability to turn vague concepts into actionable work groupings that the team can further refine and break down.
- Evaluate the ROI of systems development and enhancements to the IT Enterprise environment and effectively weigh the financial alternatives involved with various technical solutions and proposals.
Contracts/Proof of Concepts(POC):
- Can create, lead, and execute POCs as needed. Including identification of POC Success criteria/score carding, and leading vendor assessments and discussions
- Ability to review technical components of a legal contract and provide insights/recommended change or updates
Requirements & Qualifications:
- Platform is SnowfLake andAzure Data Factory
- Can be able to “whiteboard” on solution architecture and roll up sleeves on hands-on engineering
- Exposure to enterprise architecture and integrations, familiarity with ADRs, and relevant product enhancement knowledge.
- -Proven experience in solution architecture preferably in SnowfLake andAzure Data Factory platforms.
- Excellent hands-on technical skills in coding languages.
- Extensive experience in cloud systems, data architecture, and pipeline design.
- Strong knowledge of contemporary technology trends through training and research.
- Proficiency in creating and executing POCs.
- Certifications in SnowfLake andAzure Data Factory platform would be advantageous.
- Ability to handle contracts and provide technical insights.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
Why you will love Lean Tech:
- Join a powerful tech workforce and help us change the world through technology
- Professional development opportunities with international customers
- Collaborative work environment
- Career path and mentorship programs that will lead to new levels.
Join Lean Tech and contribute to shaping the data landscape within a dynamic and growing organization. Your skills will be honed, and your contributions will play a vital role in our continued success. Lean Tech is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
