Solutions Architect

Company: Odyssey Information Services
Location: Plano
Posted on: February 22, 2021

Job Description:

The job is 100% remote work from home and can be worked from anywhere in United States.Position includes 10% Bonus and the client has paid the bonus consecutively for past 9 years. Interview Process: Video Conference and Phone. What we have learned about this job from discussing with Hiring Team-- A dev background would be helpful/preferred, but this is 100% architecture work. We need to find a true architect. -- The media experience doesn't have to be current, could have been when they were a Dev, and experience in any of the media areas would work: music, movies, games, ebooks, etc. -- Tablet are you used access to movies, music, ebooks, games, etc., monthly or subscription based. This involves getting these apps on a tablet. They are custom built tablets that run on Android.-- They will partner with the selected vendors (music providers, movie studios, etc.), to architect ability to ingest this content over their CDN (Content Distribution Network). They'll have to understand audio and video quality, constraints of custom built tablet platform, put in place and scale.-- AWS architecture is a must, serverless architecture, Lambda functions, DynamoDB. -- Cloud & Media: provide media movies, ebooks, etc--- core network/architecture to scale-- Complete revamp of tablet serviceso AWS based architecture - changing from downloads to real-timeo Help scale/performance and grow - concurrent users-- Messaging queuing - lots of this role is around scalability and performance of our media platform.-- Need couple years of AWSo Architected solutions in AWSo Serverless architecture, AWS Lambdas, etc.-- Not hands-on.-- Candidates need -ideally- some sort of Media experience (Video, Music, Games, Book, etc.), ideally media platform experience. -- They also need Software Architecture (this is lots of JavaScript, but specific language is less important) & Cloud Architecture. -- A big piece of this role is scaling our media services with serverless architecture. -- This role is 100% architecture. If you have any JavaScript, node.js, tablets experience that would be a plus but is not required for the position. Original Job Description-- This position is perm direct hire role and its remote work from home and can be worked from anywhere in the United States.-- The Solutions Architect will be responsible for supporting projects, developing and recommending scalable solutions for the company, and ensuring that the overall architecture supports company's corporate vision.-- Responsible for architecture and design of the organization's media applications and related platforms. -- This includes music, movies, games and other premium content as well as educational and other standard offerings. -- Architect will be responsible for understanding industry standards and best practices, keeping current with industry trends and emerging technologies, understanding and evaluating complex business functions and processes, operational requirements and procedures. -- Will be responsible for melding these to form a set of comprehensive and coherent plans to support and enhance company media platform.-- Areas include cost modeling, vendor management, product selection, scaling and design across multiple data centers and the AWS public cloud. -- Technology stack includes Android, various AWS technology offerings, Oracle/MS SQL/PostgreSQL Databases, NoSQL Technologies, Web Technologies, Microservices and extensive custom software for specialized needs in the Corrections and Managed Services industry.Responsible for the architecture and design media platform.-- Conduct research into current and emerging technologies and issues in support of development efforts.-- Evaluation, selection and implementation of tools/technologies/standards/frameworks as needed.-- Identify, recommend, and prioritize new features and applications in conjunction with business leaders and department managers.-- Participate and/or lead team initiatives with other Architects/Engineers for new technology introductions / deployments and establishing best-practice recommendations.-- Mentor and Coach delivery, quality assurance, and support personnel.Qualifications (The more you have of these the better but having all these skills are not required)-- Bachelor's Degree in computer science or related discipline-- 10 plus years of development/ architecture experience-- AWS technology stack focusing on serverless architectures-- Android ecosystem specifically download manager and the intent framework-- Familiarity with large scale media content delivery over the internet-- Relational database technologies such as PostgreSQL/MS SQL/Oracle-- NoSQL technologies such as Elastic-- Microservices using Node.js-- Messaging/streaming technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ-- JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks and libraries, such as Angular, React and Node.js-- Experience implementing scalable, fault-tolerant, highly available, multi-data center systems.-- Gathering and analyzing business requirements in order to meet strategic goals and development efforts.-- Experience in creating architecture models and views.-- Knowledge of different application/communication protocols, and performance analysis tools.-- Experience with e-commerce, intranet, and extranet development.-- Strong analytical, performance tuning and problem-solving skills to resolve operations issues.

Keywords: Odyssey Information Services, Plano , Solutions Architect, Other , Plano, Texas