Onward Search

Onward Search is a specialized staffing and talent solutions company that helps professionals find top jobs with the nation’s leading brands. We’re hiring a Solutions Architect for a fully remote contract opportunity based out of Hartford, Connecticut with a leading healthcare company.

Join our client’s team as a Solutions Architect, where you will drive the design and development of complex systems in a collaborative Agile environment. In this role, you’ll partner with cross-functional stakeholders to refine requirements, design scalable solutions, and deliver high-quality architectural artifacts. This opportunity is ideal for a technical leader with a strong background in systems integration, cloud technologies, and distributed computing.

There is no application deadline for this role.

Solutions 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, PowerPoint, etc.).

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

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

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

Solutions Architect Qualifications:

• 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.

• Strong 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.

• Skilled at meeting facilitation with stakeholders, partners, and team.

• Proven track record working as part of a team on large/complex systems (preferred).

• Architectural/technical experience with cloud native, especially AWS and GCP and their cloud offerings (preferred).

• 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 (preferred).

• Architectural/technical experience with Gen AI (RAG frameworks, Vector DB searches and embeddings, etc.) and/or Conversational AI (IBM WatsonX, Google Dialog Flow, etc.) (preferred).

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

• Experience with SAFe Software Development Principles (preferred).

• Experience with distributed caching solutions; understands the factors that enable effective caching (preferred).

• Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps (preferred).

• Experience with ServiceNow or Salesforce for case management, workflow-based solutions (preferred).

Primary Technologies:

• API-first centric enterprise.

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

• Salesforce Service Cloud for user experience (GPS and some MX).

• Workflow experience with ServiceNow.

Perks & Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance.

• Life Insurance.

• 401(k) Program.

• Commuter Benefit.

• eLearning & Ongoing Training.

• Education Reimbursement.

• Eligibility requires working over 30 hours per week on an assignment lasting at least 10 weeks.

If you meet the qualifications and are excited about this opportunity, apply today! Our team will connect with you to discuss next steps, support you through the interview process, and advocate for your success.