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Solutions Architect

Remote/Hybrid if local to Maryland

Join us at Sparksoft, where we're not just another tech company—we're a catalyst for change. Our mission isn't just to offer IT solutions; it's to revolutionize the way you work. Here, passion isn't just a buzzword; it's the fuel behind groundbreaking ideas and transformative technologies. We serve a wide range of government clients, delivering impact that's felt across the nation.

Our true strength lies in our people. They're the problem-solvers and innovators consistently delivering extraordinary outcomes. With Sparksoft, you're not stepping into a routine job; you're joining a team committed to innovation and excellence. Our innovation extends beyond just delivering projects. Through our specialized Innovation Centers, we continuously refine our methods, ensuring we remain industry leaders.

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Sparksoft is seeking a Solutions Architect who has expertise in AWS cloud migration and architecture (e.g. application assessment for cloud movement, design, and plan cloud movement POC end to end) for a fast paced project. In this role the architect will evaluate and recommend specific products and platforms to provide cost effective solutions that meet architectural requirements.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES: 

  • The Solution Architect will be the technical team member in our fast-paced growing environment supporting new business capture by developing innovative solutions.
  • Responsible for defining and driving the technical direction of prospective business opportunities, developing system architectures, and providing technical leadership for proposals and strategic pursuits.
  • Assess market-level technology trends as well as capabilities of complementary solutions enabling larger-scale solution offerings.
  • Ability to develop architectural blueprints, roadmap, strategy documents against transformational requirements such as cloud migrations, hybrid cloud setup, assessment of application movement to public cloud etc.
  • Propose new and innovative solutions to the most complex challenges.
  • Develop IT-based solutions consisting of contextual, conceptual, and logical architectures using standards-based, rigorous methodologies and best practices.
  • Capable of building & providing impromptu technical solution to client.
  • Strong Back End skills including experience in building APIs, microservices, and database design.
  • Front-end development skills including Single Page Applications with Angular.
  • Strong mentor of other team members for skills development, coding standards, and coaching.
  • The ability to create supporting documentation for solutions is a must including sequence diagrams, data flow diagrams and entity-relationship diagrams.
  • Develop technical approach and project engineering plans, including scheduling of tasks, and processes, and identifying critical resources, to turn the solution into a successful proposal.
  • Review customer-provided information and outside sources to understand potential issues/ problems currently faced and develop an approach to solving these problems.
  • Stay current on the latest technologies and solutions in the industry.
  • Engage as a strong Agile team member with the ability to impact process improvement, quality, and productivity of the team.
  • The ideal candidate will have experience in microservices, middleware/software integration, mobile, and web application platforms, authentication, and automation.
  • Perform POCs, identify potential solutions and help implement them.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE: 

  • 2+ years in architecting and implementing secure, reliable, scalable & resilient hosting environments.
  • 5+ years of experience in AWS/AZURE cloud.
  • Experience in architecting and supporting development of projects involving Java 8 (or higher version), spring boot, micro services and advance programming constructs like AOP, concurrency and multithreading.
  • Experience developing/architecting containerized cloud based solutions with good understanding of AWS services like EC2, RDS, S3, KMS, AWS CLI, Networking, AWS Security and IAM.
  • Ability to facilitate working architecture sessions with diverse participants including tech leads and business stakeholders.
  • Hands-on experience building POC and in documenting architecture proposals through clear and comprehensive diagrams, use cases, and written documents.
  • Ability to syndicate and communicate clearly and concisely architecture designs and proposals to others.
  • Fluent in object-oriented design, industry best practices, software patterns, and architecture principles.
  • Experience defining and documenting architecture strategies, designs, and requirements across all enterprise architecture domains – business, information systems (applications & data), and technology.
  • Good understanding of architecture design mechanisms and steps including logical/conceptual, business and physical architectures. Ability to map between these constructs.
  • Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
  • Candidates must have lived in the United States 3 out of the past 5 years

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

  • 3+ years of experience designing, managing, and operationalizing the large-scale Kubernetes cluster on AWS or Azure.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

 

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