Solution Architect II, Hub

Estes Express Lines • Richmond, VA

21d • $90,300 - $157,400

About The Position

The Solution Architect II operates as a leader and change agent within a Hub organization, participating in the delivery of business value within Estes and contributing to the development of its technological vision in support of business strategy. The role partners with Solution Architects, developers, engineers, IT leaders, and business stakeholders to identify future-state architectures that enable business outcomes while evolving the IT landscape. In collaboration with other Solution Architects and Engineers, the position identifies and formulates architectural solutions for its assigned IT Hub and guides the evolution of development and technology practices.

The role requires leading solution architecture development while addressing the complexity of coexisting with and transforming legacy environments. The Solution Architect II evaluates business requirements, develops fit-for-purpose and cost-effective architectures, creates and shares reference architectures, and promotes consistency in architecture, design patterns, frameworks, methodologies, guidelines, standards, and best practices. The position also communicates and evolves architecture practices, principles, and tools; mentors and coaches IT staff; assesses emerging technologies and industry trends; and emphasizes reuse, reliability, standardization, and simplification.

The position calls for creative and pragmatic problem-solving, the ability to manage tradeoffs and uncertainty, and skill in delivering technical and business presentations. The employee is expected to demonstrate the organization's TRUCKS cultural principles: transparency, resiliency, understanding, continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and simplicity. Regular attendance is required. This is not an all-inclusive list of duties; other duties may be assigned, and the employee must be able to perform them.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with an emphasis in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• At least 2 years of experience in an IT architecture role, such as Enterprise, Solution, Integration, or Application Architecture.
• Demonstrated expertise with agile methodologies, principles, and frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or other scaled agile frameworks.
• Outstanding influencing and consensus-building skills.
• Ability to conduct technological analyses and research.
• Strong communication, teamwork, and collaboration skills to explain technology subjects across all organizational levels.
• Ability to manage tradeoffs and risks, adapt to change and uncertainty, and make recommendations with imperfect information.
• Exceptional analytical and critical-thinking skills.
• Strategic-thinking and time-management skills.
• Ability to comply with company policies, rules, procedures, and Code of Conduct.
• Ability to interact well with others and work independently or as part of a team.
• Ability to work under tight time constraints in a high-volume environment with multiple priorities.
• Ability to respond to questions and read, interpret, and comply with written information and documents, including safety rules, operations and procedure manuals, and maintenance instructions; ability to maintain comprehension and concentration and meet deadlines.
• Must pass a pre-employment drug screen and random drug and/or alcohol tests and be subject to a criminal history background check.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• 1–3 years of experience with modern architecture principles, frameworks, and practices, such as microservices, EDA, SOA, mobility, or integration, and the ability to interoperate modern and legacy environments.
• 1–2 years of experience in Integration Architecture or Middleware, including ESB, ETL, EAI, MOM, MQ, Boomi, Kafka, or MuleSoft.
• 1–2 years of experience with APIs and knowledge of API gateways such as Kong, web servers, REST, portals, HTML/CSS, or JavaScript.
• 1–2 years of experience in Software Development, DevOps, RPA, or Low/No Code.
• 1–2 years of experience in Analytics/Business Intelligence, AI/ML, Data Fabric, or Big Data/MPP.
• Experience with cybersecurity principles and practices.
• Experience with cloud computing, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, or GCP, and SaaS/PaaS.
• Experience with virtual machines, serverless computing, or containers.
• Experience with technologies relevant to Estes, such as Pega, Salesforce, Denodo, Kafka, Kong, SQL Server, DB2, RPG, Java, MongoDB, or Python.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of solution architectures while addressing the complexity of coexisting with and transforming legacy environments.
• Learn and master new technologies with a growth mindset.
• Partner with IT and business stakeholders to promote consistent architecture, design patterns, frameworks, development methodologies, guidelines, standards, and best practices.
• Evaluate business requirements and design architecture to support desired business outcomes.
• Communicate, improve, and evolve architecture practices, principles, and tools to enable IT and business value.
• Develop cohesive, fit-for-purpose, and cost-effective solution architectures that enable business capabilities.
• Create and share reference architectures for deploying solutions, platforms, and technologies using common frameworks and patterns.
• Mentor and coach IT staff on technologies, best practices, frameworks, patterns, and architecture approaches.
• Identify, assess, and recommend emerging technologies and industry trends that enable business outcomes, deliver value, and simplify.
• Ensure solutions emphasize reuse, reliability, standardization, and simplification at functional, enterprise, or operational levels.
• Solve complex business problems using creative and pragmatic approaches.
• Deliver technical and business presentations to business stakeholders, developers, and engineers.
• Demonstrate the TRUCKS cultural principles of transparency, resiliency, understanding, continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and simplicity.
• Maintain regular attendance and perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

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