Senior Modern Applications Solution Architect

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

Senior Modern Applications 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 manage 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.

Requirements

Delivery Experience

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

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent

Technical Requirements (not all mandatory) Experience in one or more of:

• Single Page Application Development (e.g. Angular, React, Aurelia)
• Mobile Application Development
• Microsoft Azure
• Microservices Architecture
• Containers
• IoT (Internet of Things) development
• .Net (C# preferred)
• Asp.Net
• WebAPI
• One or more unit testing (examples: MS Test, NUnit) and mocking frameworks (examples: RhinoMocks, Moq, NSubstitute)
• One or more Dependency Injection frameworks (Unity, Castle Windsor, SimpleInjector, NInject)
• In depth knowledge of SQL Server/TSQL or other database technology but does not need to be an administrator.
• Application security
• Git

Optional:

• Experience with Entity Framework or other ORM (Object Relational Mapping)

• Powershell

• Experience in SSO (single sign-on)/federated security

• At least one Microsoft Certification in a relevant discipline or able to obtain one within your first year (We will cover costs associated with obtaining and maintaining certification.)

• 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

Major Pluses

• Adoption of Agile methodologies
• Adoption of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment
• Adoption of SOLID principles
• Assessing the current state of an organization, recommending change, and implementing it.