IoT Solutions Architect

About the Client

Our client is a global digital solutions company with associates working across client projects in the USA, Europe, LATAM, and APAC. They are a recognized global leader in Information Technology who advises and provides cutting-edge technology to reveal, transform, accelerate, and optimize the way enterprises and software companies do business. They empower talented people to change the world, and understand the best way to build our future is to help you build yours.

Transforming the way thousands of global organizations do business by developing the most innovative technologies and processes in Big Data, the Internet of Things (IoT), security, Infrastructure, and experience design.

Their IoT group is building a team of systems thinkers passionate about IoT and solving socio-technical challenges. They make knowledge and expertise that let them design and scale enterprise IoT solutions. They are a distributed team and work to use that to their advantage for customer success and life balance.

Key responsibilities

• Guide a team on large and strategic solutions for high-profile opportunities
• Drive architectural service executions such as Discovery and Assessment
• Collaborate with business and non-technical stakeholders to understand business and technical requirements and communicate technical constraints and decisions to business
• Facilitate cooperation of all the stakeholders, define and prioritize architectural drivers for the solution
• Cooperate with other architects and technology experts to produce solid architectural decisions
• Drive and coordinate technical staff discussions
• Elaborate system quality attributes such as performance, scalability, availability, fault-tolerance, security, deployment, maintainability, and others
• Translate customers’ business, functional, and non-functional requirements into high-quality solution architecture visions and operations plans consistent with enterprise architectural standards using Attribute-Driven Design
• Define architecture strategies, standards, processes, technologies, and tools in architectural visions
• Drive or assist in solution implementation, estimation, and roadmap construction
• Analyze, model, document, and assess existing software architectures according to the Architecture Trade-off Analysis methodology
• Act as an expert and consult development teams on adherence to standards in solution design, development, and testing
• Clearly convey technical ideas to the development and operations teams

Requirements:
• Experienced with some IoT-relevant technologies: MQTT brokers, embedded programming, distributed systems, microservices architecture, infrastructure automation, edge processing, fleet observability, or wireless communications
• Successfully working with software and hardware lifecycles
• Strong in object-oriented software
• Confident in leading or mentoring a technical team
• Experienced in recognizing architectural patterns and solutions associated with those patterns
• Understanding tradeoffs between IoT offerings from the cloud and other IoT solution vendors
• Professional with SEI Software Architecture and ATAF
• Having publication(s) in the field of IoT cloud or devices, formal or informal
• Knowledgeable of Linux OS (ARM and x86)
• Familiar with hypervisors
• Proficient with hardware root of trust and PKI
• Hands-on with applying network theory and wireless communications
• Competent in infrastructure automation tools
• A Certified Professional from at least one cloud provider
• Possessing excellent communication skills, including fluency in German, and an upper-intermediate level in English

Benefits:
• Have access to 11,300+ learning solutions with Udemy Business
• Extend your skillset and gain practical experience
• Help you with your individual initiatives - we are open to them, just come and share your ideas!
• Care for your wellness with a health insurance package