Location: Remote – Continental U.S. Travel up to 15% within U.S.
Duration: Contract to Hire. All candidates must be willing to convert to a FTE at any time during the length of assignment.
The Application Architect is a a technical expert responsible for driving architecture, design, and development for our Absence Management applications. This role will work directly with solution architects, cross-functional stakeholders and development team members to define, design, and deliver the technical solutions that will support the business’s vision, strategy and goals.
Essential Functions
- Review current architecture of all solutions and propose ways to optimize, enhance and scale
- Communicate across multiple teams to showcase new features and functionalities
- Gather and analyze data and develop architectural requirements for technical features
- Conduct and lead technical design session
- Research and evaluate emerging technology, industry and market trends to assist in project development and/or operational support activities
- Participate in the domain technical and business discussions relative to future architect direction
- Design, architect, and implement the technical solutions required to build a state-of-the-art delivery platform using the latest technologies
- Work with technology teams to design, prototype and prove the viability of solutions. Implement complex solutions as needed
- Provide technical leadership and expertise in the development of standards, architectural governance, design patterns, and practices
- Develop technical solutions that will solve business problems. Drive solutions to completion
- Provide thought leadership and direction to the Absence Management development teams to ensure solutions meet corporate and departmental objectives
- Develop and build strong relationships across the business to effectively influence and accomplish strategic application architecture objectives
- Assist on-shore and off-shore teams with issues needing technical expertise or complex systems and/or programming knowledge
- Mentor and develop new or less experienced team members
- Provide technical training to external team members to foster stronger cross-departmental relations
- Provides thought leadership in technology direction, technical services, vendor partnership and industry standards adoption
Qualifications (must Have Skillsets)
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related fields. Experience in lieu of a degree will be considered
- 8+ years of experience developing technical solutions in .NET, JavaScript, JS Frameworks (React, Angular) and SQL including business intelligence and data driven technical solutions
- Vast experience building API architectures used by internal and external solutions, including microservice strategy, design and development
- API management services (Apigee)
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proven ability to take leadership role in projects that span multiple teams, ability to deliver on time, working in a fast paced Agile environment
- Continued hands-on development. This is a Plan and Build position
- Must be comfortable in a fast pace, changing environment
- Has strong presentation and collaboration skills and can clearly articulate all aspects of the job requirements, including the creation of formal documentation
Qualifications (nice To Have Skillsets)
- Experience in the Insurance and /or Absence Management market
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline or equivalent experience
- AWS, Big Data, .NET, API, SAAS, and UI Frameworks
- Enterprise architecture
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Ambreen Imran
C: 646.906.4714 Email: Ambreen.Imran@yoh.com
Ambreen Imran
Senior Recruiter
Phone: 646-906-4714 , Ambreen.Imran@yoh.com