Applications Solution Architect - Hybrid/Remote

CHS • Inver Grove Heights, MN

19h • Hybrid

About The Position

Genesis10 is seeking an Applications Solution Architect for a contract position with an Agricultural Cooperative. This role involves translating business needs into practical, end-to-end solution designs to enable consistent, scalable, and connected customer onboarding across retail and wholesale channels. The position requires experience with cloud-based solutions, specifically AWS, Confluent Cloud, PostgreSQL, SAP Master Data Governance (MDG), Snowflake, and API-led integration patterns.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Significant experience in application development, systems analysis, technical leadership, or solution architecture.
• Demonstrated experience designing end-to-end application solutions across multiple systems, teams, and technology domains.
• Experience designing solutions that support customer, account, order, service, commercial, or onboarding-related business processes.
• Experience designing secure, scalable cloud-based application architectures using AWS services.
• Experience with Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka-based event-streaming patterns.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, including application data modeling and data-access patterns.
• Strong experience designing, governing, and integrating APIs, including API-led integration patterns.
• Experience with SAP Master Data Governance (MDG), particularly customer, business-partner, or account master-data processes.
• Experience with Snowflake, including data integration and governed data exchange.
• Experience partnering with product management and engineering teams in an Agile or iterative delivery environment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting complex customer-facing or commercial business applications across multiple business lines.
• Experience supporting retail and wholesale technology capabilities.
• Experience with customer relationship management, customer/account data, customer portals, or digital commerce platforms.
• Experience integrating SAP MDG with other enterprise platforms.
• Experience designing cloud-native or hybrid application architectures using AWS services.
• Experience implementing data governance, customer-data quality, or master-data management practices.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks and governance.
• Relevant architecture, AWS cloud, Confluent/Kafka, SAP, data-platform, security, or Agile certifications.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer onboarding business capabilities, process needs, product requirements, and strategic priorities into end-to-end application and technology solution architectures.
• Design scalable onboarding solutions that support retail and wholesale business models, channels, and customer segments.
• Define customer and user journeys, solution context, architecture diagrams, component interactions, data flows, integration patterns, event flows, and technology recommendations.
• Ensure solution designs align with enterprise architecture principles, target-state architecture, approved technology standards, and governance guardrails.
• Design secure, scalable, and supportable cloud-based solution architectures using AWS services and enterprise application platforms.
• Architect capabilities that support the customer onboarding lifecycle, including initial engagement, customer and account setup, validation, activation, service enablement, and operational handoff.
• Design and govern integrations, APIs, event flows, middleware usage, and data-exchange patterns required for customer onboarding capabilities.
• Define API-led and event-driven integration patterns using Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka capabilities.
• Define and validate non-functional requirements, including security, availability, reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Partner with Product Owners, Portfolio teams, and business stakeholders to understand priorities, desired customer outcomes, and delivery constraints.
• Serve as a trusted architecture advisor to product, business, and technology stakeholders supporting customer onboarding.

Benefits

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior