Job#: 2053592

Job Description:

Position: IT Architect
Location: Hybrid - 3 days/week onsite
Duration: 12+ month contract
Overview: This role involves understanding technical business requirements and defining architecture solutions that align with our companies’ patterns and standards. The IT Architect will lead and shape the loan originations portfolio as we embark on its transformative modernization journey, working with a SaaS product and its integrations.
Key Responsibilities:

Understand business drivers and capabilities (current and future state) to determine enterprise system designs and change requirements.
Apply emerging technology trends and disruptions to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
Collaborate with product owners and managers to ensure a robust architectural runway supporting future business requirements.
Define principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to align solution decisions with the enterprise’s future-state architecture vision.
Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives, documenting all solution architecture design and analysis work.
Analyze the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy issues, and technical debt, recommending solutions for improvement.
Support product managers in end-of-life (EOL) product decisions to maintain, refresh, or retire products, services, or systems.
Manage and develop the architecture for a broader scope of projects or products.
Provide architecture solutions to modernize existing on-prem systems and promote cloud migration.
Articulate new ideas and concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirements.
Work creatively and analytically to solve business problems and propose solutions.

Required Skills:

Understanding of business drivers and capabilities, and ability to determine corresponding enterprise system designs.
Knowledge of emerging technology trends and practical application of new technologies.
Collaboration with product owners and managers to support business requirements.
Definition of principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns.
Translation of business and technical requirements into architectural blueprints.
Analysis of the business-IT environment to detect deficiencies and recommend improvements.
Support for product managers in EOL product decisions.
Management and development of architecture for broader projects or products.
Provision of architecture solutions for system modernization and cloud migration.
Ability to articulate ideas to technical and non-technical audiences.
Translation of future-state business capabilities into solution architecture requirements.
Creative and analytical problem-solving skills.

Required Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
8+ years of experience in IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, data management, EDA, and cloud development.
2-3 years of recent experience as a Solution Architect with hands-on experience in Spring Boot REST APIs.
Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms, and processing environments.
In-depth knowledge of full-stack and microservices architectures, with hands-on experience in NodeJS, ExpressJS, Angular, React, ReactNative, and GraphQL.
Hands-on experience with two of the three cloud areas: AWS, GCP, Azure.
Ability to set up a DevOps pipeline for end-to-end automated deployment.
Understanding of high-performing enterprise web and mobile application development.

Preferred Experience:

GCP Certification.
Knowledge of Salesforce Cloud.
Understanding of Agile, DevOps, and DevSecOps methodologies.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree.

EEO Employer

Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department at [email protected] or 844-463-6178.

Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Apex team member can provide.

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