Solution Architect

Company Description

Hitachi Solutions is a global Microsoft solutions integrator passionate about developing and delivering industry-focused solutions that support our clients to deliver on their business transformation goals. Our industry focus, expertise, and intellectual property is what truly sets us apart. We have earned, and continue to maintain, a strategic relationship with Microsoft. Recognized for our achievements - teaming with our clients to deliver innovative digital solutions and services - is how we have achieved year after year recognition.

As their trusted advisor, we support our clients to deliver on their strategic business initiatives as they unify, automate, and modernize their data and operations to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance their customer's experience. Our over 3,000 team members across 14 countries, and our 18 years of 100% focus on Microsoft technologies and business applications, is how we deliver excellence through expert services and industry-focused cloud solutions.

A part of Hitachi, Ltd., our company has a long and rich history of innovation, financial strength, and international presence of one of the world's largest companies. Since 1910, Hitachi, Ltd. has been a leader in manufacturing innovative products and solutions that support industry and social infrastructure around the globe supported by 303,000 employees in over 100 countries and across 864 companies.

Job Description

Hitachi Solutions provides high quality solutions with predictable delivery. We do this with clear process, standards, and an unrivaled commitment to quality. As a Solution Architect, you will be the lynchpin of our application development engagements.

Solution Architects lead client engagements from definition through delivery. You will collaborate with customers to scope the engagement, define requirements, turn those requirements into application design and architecture, create a delivery plan, and work with a team of developers and quality assurance engineers in delivering high quality applications.

Hitachi Solutions practices hands on leadership, so our Architect and Delivery leaders will be equally at home leading teams and writing software.

Leadership/Client Facing

• Methodology leadership - Scrum/Agile guidance (team & client), and backlog/roadmap management
• Technical team leadership
• People Management
• Technical Pre-Sales & Client Assessment leadership (i.e. research, validation, preparation, and lead nurturing in closing client engagements)
• Client-facing leadership

Qualifications

Experience:

• 10 years Azure application development
• Single Page Application Development (e.g., Angular, React, or compatible)
• Mobile Application Development
• Microservices Architecture
• Containers
• IoT (Internet of Things) development
• JavaScript
• Angular (of particular interest)
• .Net Core (C# preferred)
• Asp.Net
• WebAPI
• Entity Framework/Dapper
• Azure Services (Logic Apps, Power Apps)
• Data Storage - relational and non-relational
• DevOps automation: CI/CD & IaC
• Design Patterns and architectural concepts
• Experience working in a Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery environment
• One or more unit testing (examples: MS Test, NUnit) and mocking frameworks
• One or more Dependency Injection frameworks (Unity, Castle Windsor, SimpleInjector, NInject)
• Good knowledge of SQL Server/TSQL or other database technology but does not need to be an administrator.
• GIT and pull requests
• Automated Tests
• Optional: Powershell
• Optional: Experience in SSO (single sign-on)/federated security
• Optional: TypeScript
• Nice to haves: IoS, WordPress, Java, C/C++

Practices, Principles, Techniques:

• Application Security
• Agile/Scrum/XP (Extreme Programming)
• TDD (Test driven development)
• SOLID principles
• Unit Testing
• Understands and uses software patterns
• REST
• Optional: DevOps

Delivery Experience

• 10+ years of overall experience
• Experience in defining, documenting, and delivering Application Design
• Experience in Requirements Gathering
• Experience in presenting and selling Application Architecture to internal or external stakeholders or customers
• Experience in managing delivery
• Experience mentoring others in development practices
• Experience working in a Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery environment
• Project planning experience

Major Pluses

1. Adoption of Agile methodologies

2. Adoption of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment

3. Adoption of SOLID principles

4. Assessing the current state of an organization, recommending change, and implementing it.

Additional Information

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We are an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.