Solution Architect II

Estes Express Lines • Richmond, VA

70d

About The Position

The Solution Architect II operates as a leader and change agent within a Hub organization. This position will participate in the delivery of business value within Estes and contribute to the development of our technological vision in support of our business strategy. This role will partner with Solution Architects, developers, engineers, IT leaders and business stakeholders to identify future state architectures that enable business outcomes while evolving the IT landscape. The Solution Architect II will identify and formulate architectural solutions to support their assigned IT Hub, in collaboration with other Solutions Architects & Engineers, to guide and evolve our overall development and technology practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with emphasis in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• 2 or more years of previous experience in an IT architecture role (Enterprise, Solution, Integration, or Application) required
• Demonstrated expertise using agile methodologies, principles, and frameworks like 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 required to evangelize technology subjects across all levels of the organization
• Ability to manage tradeoffs and risks, adapt to change & uncertainty and make recommendations with imperfect information
• Exceptional analytical and critical thinking skills
• Strategic thinking and time management skills

Nice To Haves

• 1-3 years of experience in modern architecture principles, frameworks, and practices (microservices, EDA, SOA, mobility, integration, etc.)
• 1-2 years of experience in Integration Architecture or Middleware (ESB, ETL, EAI, MOM, MQ; Boomi, Kafka, MuleSoft, etc.)
• 1-2 years of experience with APIs & knowledge of API Gateways (Kong), Web Servers, REST, Portals, HTML/CSS, JavaScript
• 1-2 years of experience in Software Development, DevOps, RPA, Low/No Code
• 1-2 years of experience in Analytics/Business Intelligence, AI/ML, Data Fabric, 'Big Data'/MPP
• Experience in Cybersecurity principles & practices
• Experience in cloud computing (AWS, MS Azure, GCP) & SaaS/PaaS
• Experience with virtual machines, serverless computing or containers
• Experience with technology relative to Estes, e.g., Pega, SalesForce, Denodo, Kafka, Kong, SQL Server, DB2, RPG, Java, MongoDB, Python

Responsibilities

• Lead development of solution architectures while understanding, and solving for the complexity of co-existing with, and transforming, legacy environments
• Develop and maintain a growth mindset to learn and master new technologies
• Partner with key stakeholders within IT and across the business teams to develop consistency in architecture, design patterns, frameworks, development methodologies, guidelines, standards and best practices.
• Digest and evaluate business requirements in order to design architecture in support of the desired business outcome.
• Communicate, improve and evolve architecture practices, principles, tools to enable IT and business value
• Develop innovative solution architectures that are cohesive, fit for purpose and ensure cost effective enablement of business capabilities.
• Create and share reference architectures used to deploy solutions, platforms and technologies using common frameworks and patterns.
• Mentor and coach IT staff on new technologies, best practices, frameworks, patterns and architecture approaches
• Identify, assess and recommend emerging technologies and industry trends that enable business outcomes, deliver value and offer simplification
• Ensure that solutions are focusing on reuse, reliability, standardization and simplification at a functional, enterprise, or operational level
• Solve complex business problems using a creative and pragmatic approach to problem solving and solutioning
• Comfortable and skilled in delivering technical and business presentations to an audience including business stakeholders, developers or engineers.
• Demonstrate the established 'TRUCKS' cultural principles throughout the organization.
• Regular attendance is required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Truck Transportation
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees