Solutions Architect

About the role

Solution architecture is the backbone of our implementation work. With clients and prospects, solution engineers and solution architects focus on the use of the Alfa Systems platform to deliver the client's functional & non-functional requirements, taking into account the integration landscape, enterprise aims, business goals and project constraints.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand and document our client’s systems and integration landscape and then propose, design & deliver integration solutions.
• Supporting customer configuration of the Alfa Systems’ platform to meet their business requirements.
• Working to deeply understand the customer’s business objectives and requirements, and designing and architecting solutions which are in-line with best practice, accelerating launch of the customer's business on the Alfa Cloud platform.
• Working closely with the customer to understand their program roadmap, and uncover and realize opportunities for Alfa.
• Being a trusted advisor to key customer's business and technical stakeholders.
• Providing technical design consulting for API-based integrations.
• Aligning requirements to product functionality, offering best practice and scalable solutions along the way.
• Architecting the appropriate business intelligence/data-warehousing approach for integrating from our platform to the client data landscape.
• Assessing non-functional requirements and assisting with the implementation.
• Collaborating with our functional experts to provide guidance to our clients about product functionality including standard methodology and inquisitive workarounds.
• Supporting client teams with overall architecture across existing supported platforms and our cloud hosted services as appropriate.
• Distilling and sharing your knowledge both internally and externally.
• Mentoring and helping to shape the next generation of solution architects.

Qualifications

• Prior experience working on an Alfa implementation, using Alfa Systems.
• Experience in software development, technical advocacy, technical consultancy, technical pre-sales, solution architecture or enterprise architecture.
• Ability to investigate technical discussions around design and an intellectual curiosity to always keep your technical skills current while maintaining a pulse on industry trends.
• Excellent communication and consultancy skills.
• Business analysis and client requirement gathering.
• Knowledge of common integration patterns and approaches.
• Ability to look at a problem holistically, balancing competing constraints, to identify pragmatic solutions, often in an evolving environment.
• Experience in mentoring and coaching.

Preferred

• Experience in the US Auto / Equipment Finance Industry.
• Integration experience with APIs, web services, event streaming and messaging (Kafka, JMS, SQS etc).
• Experience with market-leading SaaS or iPaaS solutions.
• Hands-on AWS/Azure/Google Cloud experience.
• Database experience, including with reporting systems/data warehousing.
• Experience with performance analysis, with tools like JProfiler/CodeGuru.
• Knowledge of Containers (Docker).
• Knowledge of and experience with data engineering concepts, tooling and patterns.