Solution Architect

Job Description:

• Own the technical solution throughout the full project lifecycle, aligning it with client requirements, business objectives, and project goals
• Assess and optimize application and system performance across Java, IBM i/AS400, and DB2 environments
• Analyze performance bottlenecks at application, database, operating-system, and infrastructure levels
• Recommend and implement strategies to improve responsiveness, throughput, resource utilization, scalability, and stability
• Review Java application behavior, including memory utilization, garbage collection, threading, connection management, and application-server performance
• Evaluate IBM i system performance, including workload management, job activity, CPU and memory consumption, subsystem configuration, and resource utilization
• Assess DB2 performance, including query execution, indexing, access paths, SQL efficiency, locking, database configuration, and workload behavior
• Research technical options to inform solution architecture and modernization strategies
• Architect solutions spanning Java, PHP, IBM i, DB2, and other relevant technologies
• Translate business and technical requirements into scalable, maintainable, and supportable designs
• Lead technical discovery sessions, architecture workshops, and solution-design discussions
• Present, explain, and defend architectural recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Produce architecture documentation, technical specifications, diagrams, recommendations, and implementation roadmaps
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, database, delivery, and client teams
• Champion architecture standards, development tools, performance-monitoring tools, and delivery best practices
• Serve as a senior technical escalation point during discovery, development, testing, deployment, and production support
• Balance modernization objectives with complex legacy and mission-critical environments

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• 12+ years of hands-on experience designing and architecting large-scale, web-based enterprise systems
• Demonstrated experience as a Solution Architect, Technical Architect, or senior application architect
• Expert-level web application development experience using Java, PHP, or comparable enterprise application platforms
• Strong experience diagnosing and resolving complex application and system performance issues
• Hands-on knowledge of Java performance optimization, including JVM behavior, memory management, garbage collection, threading, application servers, and application profiling
• Experience assessing performance within IBM i, iSeries, or AS400 environments
• Strong understanding of DB2 performance optimization, including SQL tuning, indexing, query plans, access paths, locking, and database workload analysis
• Ability to investigate performance issues across application code, database, operating system, middleware, and infrastructure
• Experience designing solutions for complex, integrated, and business-critical application environments
• Strong technical documentation, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills
• Ability to clearly communicate and defend technical decisions with clients, development teams, and senior stakeholders
• Ability to manage competing priorities and provide architectural leadership across multiple projects simultaneously
• Preferred: experience with RPG applications and IBM i modernization initiatives
• Preferred: experience modernizing or integrating legacy IBM i applications with Java, PHP, APIs, web applications, or cloud-based platforms
• Preferred: familiarity with IBM i performance-monitoring and diagnostic tools
• Preferred: experience with application profiling, database monitoring, capacity planning, and performance-testing tools
• Preferred: knowledge of cloud, hybrid-cloud, containerized, or distributed application architectures
• Preferred: experience in consulting, professional services, or client-facing delivery environments

Benefits:

• Flexible hours
• Remote work from anywhere in North America
• Option to work from one of the company’s offices
• Permanent, full-time employment opportunity
• Experienced contractor option for an initial one-year engagement
• Diverse and inclusive workplace
• Equal opportunity employer