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Role : Azure/API Solution Architect Location: US Remote (Preferred Hartford CT) Overall - 10+ years Vertical- Healthcare Required Skills: • API-first centric enterprise • Azure cloud (compute), GCP (big data), some AWS (digital experience) • Salesforce Service Cloud for user experience (GPS and some MX) • Significant experience with systems integration. • 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 Desired Skills • A proven track record working as part of a team on large/complex systems • Architectural/technical experience with cloud native especially Azure Cloud and their platform as a service offerings. • 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 • Architectural/technical experience with Gen AI (RAG frameworks, Vector DB searches and embeddings, etc.) and/or Conversational AI (IBM WatsonX, Google Dialog Flow, etc.) • Experience designing REST APIs that facilitate a strong developer experience or simplify systems integration. • Experience with SAFe Software Development Principles • Experience with distributed caching solutions; understands the factors that enable effective caching • Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps 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.

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