An international cruise line company based out of Miami, Fl is looking to hire a Solutions Architect. This is a remote position with 25% travel requirement. It is a direct hire role that can pay up to 140k with a 10% bonus.

JOB SUMMARY:

As a Senior Solutions Architect you will be empowered to innovate while being responsible for setting the technical direction for Carnival’s ecommerce websites. You will be expected to bring optimism, positive energy, and a thirst for learning. This role calls for someone who is forward thinking who can strategize and work with others to see things through without micromanaging. This includes managing and directing the overall architecture of these properties while leading a set of agile Scrum teams in their end-to-end delivery. It will be your responsibility to mentor and develop the technical talent within the team and grow them into the next generation of technical leadership. Collaboration will be essential whether with technical resources or our business partners. While helping to build and maintain the current application architecture, you will be expected to continuously consider, research, and POC new technologies to further enhance our platform. Great communication will be key to success, whether written or spoken, you will need to be able to explain complex ideas to technical as well as cross-functional colleagues. Ensure code quality and development practices are followed in a project team and be a hands-on role model in that regard to technical team members. You must have experience with designing and developing the frontend/backend architectures of high traffic web applications and the ability to diagram and present these systems. This role will collaborate with the enterprise architecture team and other functional areas to ensure that most efficient solution is designed to meet business needs. You will also ensure solutions are well engineered, operable, maintainable and delivered on schedule. Develops, documents and ensures compliance with best practices including but not limited to the following of coding standards and object-oriented design. This role requires knowledge and experience of cloud architectures and technologies. Experience with containerization technologies is required and work with a Kubernetes platform/orchestrator is a plus. You will work closely with our support/operations, Devops/automation, and performance teams to ensure we are aligning to the standards of maintainability, visibility, and performance standards set by our non-functional requirements. This role will be considered a key component of the on-call escalation with a depth of knowledge of our system architecture. Has the ability to capture and understand business client needs and defines architectural approaches for solving business problems. Applies new and innovative ideas to old or new problems. Fosters environments that encourages innovation, learning, and growth and acts as a multiplier by making other members of the team more productive

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Serve as the primary technical leader with responsibilities that include coaching and mentoring developers, leads, and other architects. Will manage the team of technical leads to drive technology changes that will have long lasting impacts on our ecommerce applications (including Carnival.com and GoCCL.com) and across the enterprise
Promote the experimentation and validation of new technologies. Perform proof of concepts for new technologies, tools, and applications. Present executive level summary of findings and deliver recommendations towards multi-year improvements to our architecture and technology direction. Drive the adoption of performance monitoring and testing, Devops, and automation. Assist with the transition away from legacy technologies and prioritize the update and clean-up of technical debt
Exhibit Architectural Thinking. Which is understanding the difference between architecture and design. Possessing breadth of knowledge and context and understanding the trade-offs inherent in all architectural decisions. Recognizing the importance of business drivers and their translation to architectural decisions. This is inclusive of being able to explain the pros/cons to technical resources as well as business leadership
Have a full stack view of a solution in addition to a broader view of how the application fits in the organizational context and its relationship to engineering, Devops and the business. Use this perspective to find synergies and implement optimizations across all areas of the business
Communicate important decisions to both technical and business leadership and keep them informed of progress. Effectively communicate trade-offs and risks; drive key decisions on assigned project. Manage relationships with key vendors and meet with them regularly
Keep up to date on new technologies as they pertain to solutions across Carnival. Compare and contrast current solutions to new technologies and present these to members of the technology team. Push for the development of new technologies and new processes. Build and maintain a technology roadmap for the ecommerce team and the enterprise. Build proposals to integrate new technologies including funding requests and project planning
Understand the build vs buy tradeoff and select appropriate vendors or create internal projects to meet business goals
Review code changes made by developers and provide feedback based on best practices
Help manage the production and test environments being used by the teams under their guidance. Work as second level of support during production issues with the applications in the portfolio. This will require some amount of on-call rotation

QUALIFICATONS:

A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Management Information Systems, or equivalent related technical experience is required
Minimum 5 years of experience leading cross functional teams, with ability to create new teams and/or grow and mentor existing resources both technically and operationally. At least 8 years of total software development experience
Required
Strong .NET and C#
ASP.Net and ASP.Net MVC (either .NET or .NET Core)
.NET Core
Strong understanding of web development fundamentals such as HTTP verbs, cookie and state management, caching
Strong understanding of Object Orientated Programming
Working familiarity with design patterns
Understanding of IOC/DI and experience with multiple frameworks is a plus
Understanding and experience with different architectural styles such as Microservices, Monoliths.
Test Driven Development (TDD)
SQL/ORMs
Packaging frameworks such as NPM, Yarn
Sitecore or other CMS
Experience with Container technologies, Docker and Kubernetes
Desired
NoSQL
node.js
Front-end framework/library such as Angular, Vue, React
Async programming
JAMStack

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