Solution Architect II, Hub

Description
Job Summary:

The Solution Architect II operates as a leader and change agent within a Hub organization. This position will participate in the delivery of business value within Estes and contribute to the development of our technological vision in support of our business strategy. This role will partner with Solution Architects, developers, engineers, IT leaders and business stakeholders to identify future state architectures that enable business outcomes while evolving the IT landscape. The Solution Architect II will identify and formulate architectural solutions to support their assigned IT Hub, in collaboration with other Solutions Architects & Engineers, to guide and evolve our overall development and technology practices.

• Lead development of solution architectures while understanding, and solving for the complexity of co-existing with, and transforming, legacy environments
• Develop and maintain a growth mindset to learn and master new technologies
• Partner with key stakeholders within IT and across the business teams to develop consistency in architecture, design patterns, frameworks, development methodologies, guidelines, standards and best practices.
• Digest and evaluate business requirements in order to design architecture in support of the desired business outcome.
• Communicate, improve and evolve architecture practices, principles, tools to enable IT and business value
• Develop innovative solution architectures that are cohesive, fit for purpose and ensure cost effective enablement of business capabilities. Create and share reference architectures used to deploy solutions, platforms and technologies using common frameworks and patterns.
• Mentor and coach IT staff on new technologies, best practices, frameworks, patterns and architecture approaches
• Identify, assess and recommend emerging technologies and industry trends that enable business outcomes, deliver value and offer simplification
• Ensure that solutions are focusing on reuse, reliability, standardization and simplification at a functional, enterprise, or operational level
• Solve complex business problems using a creative and pragmatic approach to problem solving and solutioning
• Comfortable and skilled in delivering technical and business presentations to an audience including business stakeholders, developers or engineers.
• Demonstrate the established “TRUCKS” cultural principles throughout the organization: Our IT organization is grounded in a shared commitment to core principles that shape how we work and deliver value. We uphold transparency by communicating openly, fostering trust, and ensuring visibility into decisions and progress. We design for resiliency, creating systems and processes that are dependable, adaptable, and able to recover quickly from setbacks. We prioritize understanding—of our business goals, our users, and the technologies we steward—to ensure alignment and relevance. We pursue continuous learning, staying curious and open to growth in a rapidly evolving landscape. We promote knowledge sharing to strengthen collective expertise and collaboration across teams. And we seek simplicity in our solutions, reducing complexity to make our work more maintainable, efficient, and user-friendly.
• Regular attendance is required.
• This is not an all-inclusive list of job requirements and/or duties and may not contain all mental and physical capabilities necessary to perform the job at all times due to circumstances. Operational, safety and other needs may require the employee to perform any and all other duties as assigned. Employees are expected, and must be able to perform all such duties and tasks.

Qualifications:

• Required experience:
• Bachelor’s degree with emphasis in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• 2 or more years of previous experience in an IT architecture role (Enterprise, Solution, Integration, or Application) required
• Demonstrated expertise using agile methodologies, principles, and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe or other scaled agile frameworks
• Outstanding influencing and consensus building skills
• Ability to conduct technological analyses and research
• Strong communication, teamwork and collaboration skills required to evangelize technology subjects across all levels of the organization
• Ability to manage tradeoffs and risks, adapt to change & uncertainty and make recommendations with imperfect information
• Exceptional analytical and critical thinking skills
• Strategic thinking and time management skills
• Preferred Experience:
• 1-3 years of experience in modern architecture principles, frameworks, and practices (microservices, EDA, SOA, mobility, integration, etc.), while also having the skillset to interoperate modern and legacy environments
• 1-2 years of experience in one or more of the following areas: Integration Architecture or Middleware (ESB, ETL, EAI, MOM, MQ; Boomi, Kafka, MuleSoft, etc.)
• 1-2 years of experience with APIs & knowledge of API Gateways (Kong), Web Servers, REST, Portals, HTML/CSS, JavaScript
• 1-2 years of experience in one or more of the following areas: Software Development, DevOps, RPA, Low/No Code
• 1-2 years of experience in Analytics/Business Intelligence, AI/ML, Data Fabric, “Big Data”/MPP
• Experience in Cybersecurity principles & practices
• Experience in cloud computing (AWS, MS Azure, GCP) & SaaS/PaaS
• Experience with virtual machines, serverless computing or containers
• Experience with technology relative to Estes, e.g., Pega, SalesForce, Denodo, Kafka, Kong, SQL Server, DB2, RPG, Java, MongoDB, Python
• Must be able to comply with all company policies, rules, procedures and Code of Conduct
• Must be able to interact well with others
• Must be able to work independently, or in a team setting
• Must be capable of working under tight time constraints in a high volume environment with multiple priorities
• Responds well to questions; Ability to read, interpret and comply with written information and documents such as safety rules, operations / procedure manuals and maintenance instructions with a high comprehension and concentration level to include the ability to meet deadlines
• Must pass a pre-employment drug screen, random drug and/or alcohol tests, and will be subject to a criminal history background check
• Must be authorized to work in the United States

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The employee is frequently required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel or operate computers and other standard office equipment. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, lift, twist, turn and reach with hands and arms. The employee must be capable of lifting a minimum of 20 lbs., or more if required by the essential functions of the job.

Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment ranges from quiet to loud as required by the essential functions of the job.