Benchmark Education Company
Senior Solutions Architect
Remote - USA, USA · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 91 days ago
JavaScriptJavaPHPHTMLDistributed SystemsNoSQLAWSRESTAccessibilityAgileResearchLeadershipCommunicationProblem Solving
About the role
- Project Leadership - Serves as a technical advisor on IT projects.
- Since its founding in 1998, our company has proven to be one of the most nimble and innovative content creators on the cutting edge of pedagogy and technology.
- Benchmark Education Publishing (BEC) and its affiliates are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Responsibilities
- Recruit, train, develop, and mentor Solutions Architecture staff
- Provides support through practical application of Solution Architecture responsibilities
- Ensures that all architectures support high availability, disaster recovery, and performance optimization, particularly for distributed systems
- Balances a variety of competing goals in a design, including project time, scope and budget constraints, system performance, message verbosity, and loose coupling.
- Assists with writing and communicating best practices, standards, and guidelines documents that support Technology teams.
- Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, tradeoff, capacity modeling and interface definition studies to formalize customer requirements into solution architecture specifications.
- Successfully manage interactions with many constituents including senior business and IT leaders, end business users, application development teams, and operational teams to clarify requirements.
- Define high -level solution architectures that prioritize scalability, fault tolerance, and security, and breaking them down to detailed designs which support all requirements and can be implemented by development teams and managed by operational teams.
- Drives adoption of identified design patterns, standards, techniques, principles, products, methodologies, and best practices throughout the software engineering organization.
- Maintains ongoing communication with project teams, verifying that what was designed was built and adjusting solution architecture as appropriate throughout the project.
Requirements
- Experience in the development of high volume, mission critical applications in heterogeneous environments/architectures for multi-user solutions
- Experience with relational and/or non-relational (NoSQL) databases and the design of highly available, distributed database applications.
- Experience with Service Oriented Architecture concepts, web/RESTful services, and event-driven architecture.
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum development methodologies
Skills
- Excellent oral, written, presentation and listening communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, persuasion and diplomatic skills.
- Excellent reasoning, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to solve complex problems with multiple complex abstract variables.
- Courage to push difficult or unpopular perspectives.
- Ability to explain complex technical issues in a way non-technical people understand.
- Business/Application Knowledge - demonstrates deep knowledge/expertise in multiple and inter-dependent applications and processes.
- Conduct tradeoff analysis (ability to consider alternative architectural approaches and present pros, cons and recommendations)
- Remains unbiased toward any specific vendor or technology choice; is more interested in results than personal preferences.
- Experience designing cloud-native architectures using AWS.
- Java, PHP, Web Services, RESTful Services, JavaScript, HTML, scripting languages, etc.
- Experience in EdTech, including familiarity with digital learning platforms, assessment tools, or student data systems
Benefits
- Develops a highly performing Solutions Architecture team to design and guide development of Benchmark Education's software applications and solutions
- Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of business, customer and product requirements into flexible, scalable, and high-performance technical solutions which support current and future needs.
- Education, Experience and Knowledge
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, 8 or more years of related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Company info
- Benchmark Education Company is a leading publisher of core, supplemental, and intervention literacy and language resources in English and Spanish, both print and digital, as well as world-class professional development. Since its founding in 1998, our company has proven to be one of the most nimble and innovative content creators on the cutting edge of pedagogy and technology. The digital content in our many learning programs delivers all the rigor of its print counterpart and is designed for virtual and blended learning contexts.
- For further information, visit us at: https://www.benchmarkeducation.com
- Benchmark Education Company is a leading publisher of core, supplemental, and intervention literacy and language resources in English and Spanish, both print and digital, as well as world-class professional development.
- The digital content in our many learning programs delivers all the rigor of its print counterpart and is designed for virtual and blended learning contexts.
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