Solutions Architect

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Founded on the principles of trust, experience, and innovation, Trexin Consulting specializes in strategy execution – the implementation of business strategy to achieve targeted business goals. Applied strategy situations that Trexin frequently leads include: digital transformations for business, scaling capabilities for growth, optimizing operations for cost reduction, driving synergies for M&A and recovering projects in distress. Trexin’s services are right-sized for our Clients’ needs, ranging from our “Diamond Team” service when our Clients want Trexin to own an outcome and share the delivery risk, to Expert/Advisory services for senior-level guidance, to Strategic Staffing services for execution-oriented tasks and roles. Our expertise spans Healthcare, Life Sciences, Financial Services, and Products & Distribution, overlaid by multidisciplinary skills in the four capabilities essential to strategy execution: Strategy & Innovation, Program Execution, Technology, and Analytics.

Trexin Consulting is currently seeking Solution Architect to join our team and consult at our financial services client. In this role, you will work with designing, developing, and integrating technology patterns that are focused on technology stacks brought through Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A). This role will provide day-to-day solution architecture strategic assessments, guidance, and operational assistance to the M&A Integrations (MAI) team in the development of sustainable technology answers for newly acquired agencies.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Develop and create MAI standard patterns for systems integrations.
• Evaluate incoming M&A technology and assess degree of difficulty to integrate.
• Evaluate incoming M&A technology against organizational capabilities to perform maintenance, support, enhancements, and upgrades.
• Make recommendations to MAI and Enterprise Architecture leadership on how to proceed with acquired technologies.
• Identify potential technical issues and engineer possible solutions to MAI technical hurdles.
• Identify low value, yet high risk MAI technology that is being acquired.
• Engage with MAI and Enterprise Architecture leadership regularly with reports on project status, activities, and achievements.
• Perform and contribute to “Technical Archeology” (Platform and System Decomposition) for acquired systems and business applications that are in production.
• Develop solutions by understanding and studying systems flows, data usage and work processes.
• Contribute to the expansion, growth, and maturity of Enterprise Architecture.
• Develop and communicate acquired technology system narratives.
• Communicate with stakeholders to assist in the identification of business, technical, and operational requirements.
• Assist and conduct application stack and systems decomposition research and engineering tasks.
• Assist in maintaining the current EA platform and business application catalogs, service maps, and application narratives.
• Be responsible for analysis and recommendation of acquired technology “on-boarding.”
• Review technical specifications from clients and vendors to confirm adequacy, accuracy, and functionality of proposed solutions.
• Assist in developing support channels and channel documentation for acquired technology.
• Collaboration and communication with Enterprise IT operational groups on status of MnA technical events.

Key Desired Skills, Experience and Knowledge:

• Bachelor’s degree in technology or applicable experience.
• 10+ Years of experience with / of programming languages (PowerShell, python, shell scripting) and operating systems (Windows Server 2008-2019); current system performance-monitoring tools, application tracing tools, process tracing tools, active directory, virtualization, MSSQL, application / content delivery
• 4 -6 yrs. of Hands-on experience with cloud architecture, cloud solutioning, networking, security, compliance, migration patterns and tools.(AWS, Azure, GCP – Proficient in at least 2 Cloud offerings)
• 4-6 yrs. of Hands-on experience with cloud-native infrastructure, including virtual networks, security groups, and identity management services (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Ability to manage and ensure the successful completion of multiple technical tasks in assigned program(s).
• 3+ years of experience with AWS infrastructure as a service
• 3+ years of experience with Azure infrastructure and O365 services and technology
• Expertise with Windows Operating Systems, including SMB/CIFS, DNS, Active Directory, and WSUS, Windows Imaging WDS/MDT
• Expertise with various consumer and enterprise operating systems (Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS, Android) operating at scale.
• Expertise with Infrastructure as a Service platforms including VMware, AWS, Azure, GCP and OpenStack
• Networking (Firewall / Switching / Wi-Fi) and Enterprise EFP experience is a bonus (BGP, OSPF, HSRP, STP, SNMP, NetFlow, NBar, Packet Tracing, measures vs metrics vs observables, etc.)
• Collaboration, prioritization, and adaptability skills
• Experience in project management, systems design, and integration.
• Expertise in analyzing and documenting large-scale distributed systems.
• Desire to continuously develop your skills and knowledge.
• An ability to diagnose and resolve problems quickly and efficiently.
• Thorough knowledge of layered systems architectures and layered solutions and designs
• Consultative skills, including the ability to understand and assist in applying customer requirements, including drawing out unforeseen implications and making recommendations for design, the ability to define design reasoning, understanding potential impacts of design requirements.

Trexin is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. Trexin is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Trexin are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications. Trexin strictly prohibits and does not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender individual), sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.