Senior Solution Architect, Resiliency
Findlay, OhioAll locationsFindlay, OhioSan Antonio, Texas On-site
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About the role
This Solution Architect position focuses on advancing foundational infrastructure capabilities, particularly within Marathon’s Azure cloud environment, to strengthen application resiliency. The role will lead investigation and delivery of new capabilities such as multi-region application architecture and chaos testing to advance other aspects of resilient designs. Evolving PaaS, micro-service, and container-based architectures for resilient compute will be paired with progressing Infrastructure as Code, DevSecOps, Networking, and resistance to cyber attacks through secure design and defense in depth; together delivering more resilient application hosting. This role collaborates with peer CI Solution Architects as well as Product Managers to create strategic roadmaps and develop architectural runway to guide agile teams. It works closely with the business to translate expected outcomes into solution architectures and the necessary enabling work to realize the strategic vision. The Solution Architect delivers actionable Agile features, drives cross-platform and business unit outcomes, supports iterative delivery, and ensures priority alignment. Additionally, the role will be an evangelist to application development teams; while balancing innovation with operational stability and security expectations, this role will take an active role driving awareness and adoption of newer, more resilient foundational infrastructure within application designs. This position belongs to a family of jobs with increasing responsibility, competency, and skill level. Actual position title and pay grade will be based on the selected candidate’s experience and qualifications.
What you'll bring
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field, or equivalent experience required.
- Five (5) or more years of relevant IT experience, including two (2) or more years of relevant architecture experience required.
- Experience with Infrastructure platforms and capabilities: Cloud, Compute, Storage, Network, Cybersecurity required.
- Experience with architecture principles, process design, development standards, and best practices required.
- Agile Methodology - Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.
- Analytical Thinking - Strong problem-solving skills to identify architectural challenges, analyze requirements, evaluate options, and propose effective solutions.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems.
- These processes include learning (the acquisition of information and rules for using the information), reasoning (using rules to reach approximate or definite conclusions), and self-correction.
- AI encompasses a broad range of techniques and approaches, including machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing, computer vision, robotics, and expert systems, among others.
- The ultimate goal of AI is to create machines that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as understanding natural language, recognizing patterns, making decisions, and solving problems.
- Authentic Communicator - Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly.
- Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.