Cook Systems International
VDOT Solutions Architect
Cook Systems International, Richmond, Virginia, United States, 23214
Overview
Launch Your Career with Cook Systems. Ready to elevate your career? Cook Systems, a certified veteran owned IT consulting firm, has been transforming businesses and careers since 1990. Whether you're aiming to work with a Fortune 500 company or a small business, we've got you covered. Our core values: integrity, investment, and innovation drive everything we do, ensuring you grow and succeed in a dynamic, supportive environment. We understand the importance of work life balance and personal growth. Our cutting edge IT consulting partners and FastTrack talent program are designed to help you excel. Ready to take your career to new heights? Cook Systems is where your journey to success begins!
Submittal: Web and in person Interview. Market-rate compensation based on experience. Local candidates strongly preferred; if not within 150 mile radius, candidate must be able to come to Richmond, VA to pick up a laptop.
Responsibilities
Create overall application and solution architectures, component designs, and systems integration and implementations for a particular business solution.
Lead efforts in defining, documenting and estimating the following for enterprise applications: capture requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, hardware and operating system environment (on-prem, hybrid and cloud topologies), interfaces with other systems, internal and external checks and controls, system inputs and outputs.
Collaborate with other IT staff to assess business needs and requirements and translate them into automated solutions.
Produce relevant solution design artifacts including technical estimates, conceptual, logical and physical system designs, sequence diagrams, and data models.
Coordinate new system development to ensure it is consistent and well integrated with existing application systems and COTS solutions.
Analyze and estimate feasibility and compatibility with hardware and other programs; consult with clients to prototype, architect, and design applications to meet needs.
Collaborate with business areas and cross-functional Enterprise Architects to fully understand business needs and provide strategic consultation.
Partner with architects and other technical team members to develop roadmaps and strategies to support agency KPIs.
Design and implement enterprise security and technology patterns. Provide architecture considerations on legacy solutions and tactical direction as needed.
Qualifications
Experience with SAFe architecture and proven work experience with Agile / Scrum teams.
Proven experience in developing enterprise and solution level architectural designs.
Proven experience in overseeing the linking of cross-functional applications between disparate business units and systems.
Experience with business and technical requirements analysis, business process modeling/mapping, methodology development, and data mapping.
Knowledge of relational database design and management techniques.
Good project management skills and/or substantial exposure to project-based work structures and lifecycle models.
Strong knowledge of system and software quality assurance best practices and methodologies.
Competency with XML constructs and schemas. Confidence and experience with API protocols and schemas such as SOAP and REST.
Strong understanding of end-user needs and requirements. Excellent understanding of organizational goals and objectives.
Ability to work creatively and analytically in a team environment. Excellent communication and documentation skills.
Experience in enterprise-level application design and integration.
Required: 8+ years experience in Azure (cloud-native and hybrid architecture).
Required: 8+ years experience with Docker and Azure cloud services (e.g., AKS, Azure Functions, Azure Container Service, Azure App Services, Azure API Management).
Required: 5+ years experience with Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake.
Required: 2+ years experience in SaaS (Software as a Service) architecture.
Required: 8+ years experience with integration architecture and proven work experience with Agile / Scrum teams.
Required: 8+ years experience with architecture engagement in SAFe and Scrum methodologies.
Required: 2+ years experience with Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse) and Dynamics 365.
Nice to have: 2+ years experience with Esri ArcGIS.
Benefits
Health: Choose from two comprehensive medical plans through Blue Cross Blue Shield, including dental and vision coverage with access to a large national network.
Protection: Life, critical illness, and accident insurance through Unum.
Flexible Spending and Dependent Care: FSA and Daycare FSA through Navia.
Health Gap Insurance through Sunlife.
Retirement: 401(k) plan through The Standard with eligibility after six months.
At Cook Systems, you're not just another employee—you’re family. Here, your ideas matter, your contributions shine, and your career will thrive. Are you ready to be part of something bigger? Let's build the future together at Cook Systems.
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Submittal: Web and in person Interview. Market-rate compensation based on experience. Local candidates strongly preferred; if not within 150 mile radius, candidate must be able to come to Richmond, VA to pick up a laptop.
Responsibilities
Create overall application and solution architectures, component designs, and systems integration and implementations for a particular business solution.
Lead efforts in defining, documenting and estimating the following for enterprise applications: capture requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, hardware and operating system environment (on-prem, hybrid and cloud topologies), interfaces with other systems, internal and external checks and controls, system inputs and outputs.
Collaborate with other IT staff to assess business needs and requirements and translate them into automated solutions.
Produce relevant solution design artifacts including technical estimates, conceptual, logical and physical system designs, sequence diagrams, and data models.
Coordinate new system development to ensure it is consistent and well integrated with existing application systems and COTS solutions.
Analyze and estimate feasibility and compatibility with hardware and other programs; consult with clients to prototype, architect, and design applications to meet needs.
Collaborate with business areas and cross-functional Enterprise Architects to fully understand business needs and provide strategic consultation.
Partner with architects and other technical team members to develop roadmaps and strategies to support agency KPIs.
Design and implement enterprise security and technology patterns. Provide architecture considerations on legacy solutions and tactical direction as needed.
Qualifications
Experience with SAFe architecture and proven work experience with Agile / Scrum teams.
Proven experience in developing enterprise and solution level architectural designs.
Proven experience in overseeing the linking of cross-functional applications between disparate business units and systems.
Experience with business and technical requirements analysis, business process modeling/mapping, methodology development, and data mapping.
Knowledge of relational database design and management techniques.
Good project management skills and/or substantial exposure to project-based work structures and lifecycle models.
Strong knowledge of system and software quality assurance best practices and methodologies.
Competency with XML constructs and schemas. Confidence and experience with API protocols and schemas such as SOAP and REST.
Strong understanding of end-user needs and requirements. Excellent understanding of organizational goals and objectives.
Ability to work creatively and analytically in a team environment. Excellent communication and documentation skills.
Experience in enterprise-level application design and integration.
Required: 8+ years experience in Azure (cloud-native and hybrid architecture).
Required: 8+ years experience with Docker and Azure cloud services (e.g., AKS, Azure Functions, Azure Container Service, Azure App Services, Azure API Management).
Required: 5+ years experience with Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake.
Required: 2+ years experience in SaaS (Software as a Service) architecture.
Required: 8+ years experience with integration architecture and proven work experience with Agile / Scrum teams.
Required: 8+ years experience with architecture engagement in SAFe and Scrum methodologies.
Required: 2+ years experience with Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse) and Dynamics 365.
Nice to have: 2+ years experience with Esri ArcGIS.
Benefits
Health: Choose from two comprehensive medical plans through Blue Cross Blue Shield, including dental and vision coverage with access to a large national network.
Protection: Life, critical illness, and accident insurance through Unum.
Flexible Spending and Dependent Care: FSA and Daycare FSA through Navia.
Health Gap Insurance through Sunlife.
Retirement: 401(k) plan through The Standard with eligibility after six months.
At Cook Systems, you're not just another employee—you’re family. Here, your ideas matter, your contributions shine, and your career will thrive. Are you ready to be part of something bigger? Let's build the future together at Cook Systems.
#J-18808-Ljbffr