TEKsystems

Description

• Ideally they'd have someone within driving distance of Indianapolis, IN for a Hybrid schedule. That would be 2-3 days/week. That being said, having the best candidate is #1 on priority so we can consider remote as well. Ideally they'd like to have someone interested/eligible to convert full time.

Top Skills'

• Good base across some level of the cloud providers - GCP, AWS, or Azure - designing and deploying and influencing cloud solutions
• Deploying SaSS solutions
• High level strategy within Solution Architecture. Not going to be in the weeds but more vision/strategy. Need a diverse background of systems.

Position Description:

As a Solution Architect, you will provide technical thought leadership and contribute to the business vision. You will have the autonomy to make key design decisions and influence technology investments and product roadmaps. This role requires technical breadth and depth in application architecture, software engineering, and SaaS solutions, as well as a proven track record of enterprise delivery.

In this role, you will support key product groups and products across our enterprise, partnering with Product Managers, Product Designers, and Principal Engineers to ensure the holistic direction of a product is enabled by enterprise technology investments. Additionally, solution architects are critical in ensuring that technology solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, standards, and reference architectures.

To be successful, you should be a highly motivated individual with an innovative and strategic mindset, a bias for action, proactive communication skills, and the ability to form and communicate a strong perspective. You must be able to articulate and translate complex technical topics to stakeholders, help lift the technical competency of teams, collaborate with internal/external partners, ensure alignment with architectural principles and standards, and drive tangible business outcomes.

While a solution architect may be deployed across variety of different product teams areas, this role will initially focus on our Supply Product Group emphasizing technology and solutions to enable pharmaceutical drug manufacturing and quality. This role will be critical to modernizing supply chain systems. A background in designing and delivering IT systems to support manufacturing and life sciences is preferred.

Supporting product groups and associated products

• Contribute to the technical strategic vision and roadmap within a product group or series of related products ensuring the technology ecosystem supports the needs of the product teams.
• Own key architecture assets including the city map and reference architecture to influence the right investments across a product group with a focus not only on new features but technical debt reduction.
• Design implementation paths for custom and Line of Business applications (Software-as-a-Service and Commercial-of-the-Shelf), covering commodity/highly industrialised business processes.
• Influence cross product and product groups partnering with Architects across the enterprise to ensure alignment with the holistic vision.
• Partner closely with Product Management and Principal Engineers to support taking an architectural design to a ‘ready to build’ state.
• Apply external technology trends (e.g. AI, cloud-native) to business problems applying where there is value influencing product teams to help drive future technology strategies.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Support Product Managers in business discussions helping to clearly articulate how technology visions and roadmaps support business outcomes.
• Build relationships with business stakeholders to better understand their needs and influence necessary changes and technology investments to meet business outcomes.
• Establish strong partnerships with key service integrators (vendors), and internal Engineers helping to ensure technical competency and architecture alignment.
• Externally connected bringing the outside in and art of the possible for leadership across the function.

Architecture Team

• Partner with business, Product Management, and enterprise/solution architects to recommend opportunities to rationalise or combine technologies that cut across functions looking for both efficiency and reuse opportunities.
• Partner across the architecture team to deliver on key central architecture initiatives that support continued growth and impact of Architecture.
• Support solution architecture review groups to ensure solutions delivered meet enterprise requirements.
• Identify opportunities to directly contribute to architecture standards and patterns that product teams can use to implement solutions.
• Contribute to the identification and rationalisation of technical debt looking to recommend and support portfolio health initiatives across functions and enterprise.
• Enable the discovery capability to help validate business and technology direction.

Basic Qualifications:

• B.S. in Information Systems/Computer Science.
• 5+ years of experience in architecting and delivering enterprise IT systems.
• Experience in large technology selection processes able to lead technical decision making.
• Strong technical background ideally from a hands-on IT engineering background, with array of different experiences in Architecture space.
• Appreciation of data architecture principles.
• Experience working with:

o Modern application architecture methodologies (Service Orientated Architecture, API-Centric Design, Twelve-Factor App, FAIR, etc.)

o Cloud Native design patterns, with a preference towards Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud

o “DevSecOps” culture, including modern software development practices, covering Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), etc.

o Experience with interface implementation between SaaS providers (leveraging Integration-as-a-service frameworks).

o Experience supporting digital platforms, including Integrations, Release Management, Regression Testing, Integrations, Data Obfuscation, etc.

o Experience scaling an “API-Ecosystem”, designing, and implementing “API-First” integration patterns.

• Strong organizational and communications skills with multiple examples of being able to convey complex technical topics, that resulted in a definitive direction.
• Strong leadership and proactive communication skills with a strong bias for action and ability to advise others.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven track-record working with manufacturing-related IT systems and business processes (MES, SAP, Lab, EEM, Engineering, Packaging & Serialization, Supply Chain, HSE). Example technologies include PAS-X, SAP, OneLab, Veeva, Sphera
• Familiarity with infrastructure considerations (networking, hosting, security, etc.) in enabling on-premise and cloud IT solutions.
• Experience working in a regulated industry such as life sciences or equivalent.
• Solution architecture certifications for Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience working in a product operating model delivering architecture capability across product.

Skills

Architecture, Solution architecture, Cloud, Design, Enterprise architecture

1. Good base across some level of the cloud providers - GCP, AWS, or Azure - designing and deploying and influencing cloud solutions

a. Currently using Azure and GCP

2. Coding background is not required but wouldn’t hurt, been hands on in the past. Web applications are Javascript heavy in frontend and backend is a plus

3. Data side is more data engineer/architect - python and becoming a big data bricks shop - a really good bonus

4. Deploying SaSS solutions

5. Not lifting and shifting traditional work loads and running them on the cloud, want someone working in a cloud native way

6. Working in a modern way, influencing

7. Cloud plus supplier, manufacturing

a. Integration solutions, ERPs, integrating with the cloud

8. Someone who has the right mentality

9. Exposure to /working with physical hardware in labs, manufacturing, warehousing - making controllers talk from and infrastructure perspective

• Trying to be a matrix organization - trying not to have people be dedicated to a particular function
• Manufacturing, R&D - flow between problem statements and product teams
• How technical/hands on/strategy? Day in the life

o Wearing a lot of hats

o Ability to know the technologies and how it works, could do it yourself, instructor, staying higher level, influencing technical decisions for product teams

• Supplier manufacturing focused will be more experienced
• Life sciences experience and manufacturing experience a plus

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $60.00 - $90.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job

classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be

subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits

available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully remote position.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Jun 19, 2025.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We’re a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We’re a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We’re strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We’re building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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