Sr. Solution Architect

Job Functions and Responsibilities

- Provides design solutions to new requirements and bug fixes within an application.
- Leads collaboration with IS delivery lead and product owner.
- Have designs reviewed by ERB (Enterprise Review Board).
- Provide solutions strictly adhering to enterprise security, compliance, and legal standards.
- Provide solutions strictly adhering to enterprise design patterns and enterprise/industry best practices.
- Continuously provides solutions to improve application security, performance, resiliency, scalability, automation, maintainability, and cost savings.
- Drives digital transformation of legacy applications.
- Leads cloud migrations of applications off on-prem data center.
- Works with DevOps team for provisioning of infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
- Provides guidance and support for test automation, pen tests, performance, and chaos tests.
- Assist support teams with troubleshooting and provide solutions to production issues.
- Drives test automation, pen tests, performance, and chaos tests.
- Provide guidance to development and support teams.
- Provides guidance to developers on secure coding standards and vulnerability remediation.
- Promotes operational excellence through stable, supportable solutions.
- Supports operational readiness by using standard coding practices, supported platforms and components, and inclusive of monitoring tools/solutions in designs.

Required Skills:

- 7 to 10 years of experience in IT.
- 5+ years of experience in Architecture.
- 3+ years of experience of creating cloud solutions, preferably AWS.
- Experience with serverless cloud architectures.
- 5+ years of experience of hands-on API (REST/Graph)/microservices design and development (backend), preferably in Node.js, Python or Java.
- Hands-on experience with various developer and devops tools.
- Good understanding of various authentication and authorization frameworks (such as SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0).
- Solid knowledge of API Managers or Gateways.
- Good understanding of messaging and streaming services like Kafka, Active MQ, Rabbit MQ, SQS, SNS.
- Solid knowledge of DevOps and CICD concepts.
- Experience of working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
- Skilled in designing highly resilient, highly scalable, cost-efficient, highly secure and easily maintainable application solutions.
- Expertise in troubleshooting various technical issues. Able to quickly troubleshoot production issues and provide solutions.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Obsession to provide solutions that are customer-centric.
- Basic understanding of technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization.
- Proven ability to quickly comprehend, learn and adopt new technologies.
- Solid understanding of production support concepts, importance of application observability/monitoring, and stable, supportable design concepts.

Strongly Preferred Skills:

- AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification
- Basic understanding of how Captive Finance not necessarily automotive industry would be good.
- Knowledge of vendor management, contract management, customer relationship management; project management skills; strong working knowledge of automotive business systems; oral and written communications skills; interpersonal skills; and conflict resolution skills.
- Basic understanding of BI/Data, Reporting and Analytics.
- Knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure (preferably AWS) and Services.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office, forecasting, portfolio management and/or collaboration tools.

Education:

- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline. Advanced degree preferred.
- Technical certifications a plus: AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification.

Nissan (NMEX, NEdM, NRFS, NRFM and ANZEN) hires based on the fulfillment of the job profile in the vacancy, without distinction or discrimination based on gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, race, color, language, religion, political or any other opinion, national or social origin, economic position, birth or any other condition.

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