Job Title: Solutions Architect (AI / AWS / GCP)

Location: Hartford, CT | Hybrid (3 days onsite)

Employment Type: Contract

Duration: 6-12 months

Pay: $70/hr

About:

VLink, founded in 2006, is a leading global provider of software engineering services with next-gen technologies and best-in-class talent. Our Headquarters are in the U.S, and we have offices in 7+ countries from North America-Europe to APAC, with expansion plans in the Middle East. With over 1,000 employees working globally, VLink has helped SMBs, and large enterprises achieve their business goals, and gained the trust of Fortune-250 companies. VLink is 'Great Place to Work® CertifiedTM' and has been a consistent winner as- Best Places to Work in CT. Trust, collaboration, and accountability are the three elements that are at the core of VLink's work culture. We value our professionals, providing comprehensive benefits and the opportunity for growth.

Required Skills:

• Architectural/technical expertise with cloud especially GCP and AWS (native, cloud agnostic, container, etc offerings) and cloud/SAAS systems integration.

• Experience designing REST APIs that facilitate a strong developer experience or simplify systems integration.

• Experience designing systems that leverage Kafka for messaging/streaming.

• Experience with RDBMS and/or NoSQL databases (i.e. MongoDB). Understands the benefits and trade-offs of both. Familiar with normalization and denormalization, sharding, and other data-centric patterns

• Experience with the design and development of complex systems; employs a disciplined and rigorous approach

• Adept at requirements analysis, estimation, systems and application design, and testing

• Familiarity with popular Design Patterns.

• Excellent collaboration, influencing, and consensus-building skills. Ability to work with persons in all job functions (e.g. product, program, developers, etc).

• Excellent verbal and written communications

• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision. Self-directed

• A great team player, with demonstrable experience delivering superior software products via Agile methodologies

Experience on an Agile team:

• Experience with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies such as Java, JavaScript, Node.js, messaging queuing infrastructures, as well as cloud and on-premise infrastructure and services

• Experience with distributed computing architectures, including race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency control

• Meeting facilitation with stakeholders, partners and team

• A proven track record working as part of a team on large/complex systems

• Experience with SAFe Software Development Principles

• Experience with distributed caching solutions; understands the factors that enable effective caching

• Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps

Basic Solution Architect responsibilities:

• Receive epic/feature assignments and general direction from train architect.

• Partner with Product Owner, BA and Development technical leads to refine/understand requirements.

• Partner with Solution Domain Lead architects (if necessary) to seek guidance or vet solutions impacting other domains.

• Collaborate with integration architect to deliver solution artifacts (sketch, ppt, etc.)

• Continuously attain and refine business and systems subject matter expertise.

• Leverage architecture patterns for the solution. Create them if covering new ground.

• Present solution sketches to various stakeholders (SS architect team, Infrastructure SMEs, business, etc.) for review and feedback.

Primary technologies:

Azure cloud (compute), GCP (big data), AWS (digital experience)

Employment Practices:

VLink is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

This job application process may use AI-powered tools to assist in screening and evaluating applications based on objective, job-related qualifications. AI is used solely to support the recruitment process and all final hiring decisions are made exclusively by our human recruitment team.

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