Solutions Architect

About the company:

Our technicians handle onsite and remote support for medical offices, accounting firms and manufacturers on fixed monthly contracts. Birmingham Technology Group provides managed IT for offices of 10 to 200 users: help desk, patching, backups, Microsoft 365 and firewall management.

Looking for a Solutions Architect who wants to stay somewhere for a while. This role sits between sales, delivery and engineering. You'll scope solutions, write architecture documents and stay involved through implementation. Our team is spread across 6 countries. Headquarters is in Birmingham. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. You will need to be available during UK office hours, at least until 3:00 PM GMT. A quiet workspace and good internet are required.

Duties:

• Define integration patterns using APIs, event streaming and middleware such as MuleSoft or Azure Integration Services.
• Design cloud architectures on AWS, Azure or GCP that account for security, cost and availability.
• Advise on build-versus-buy decisions and vendor selection.
• Review designs from engineering teams and flag risks early.

Minimum qualifications:

• 3+ years in software engineering, infrastructure or consulting, with at least three in an architecture role.
• Comfortable presenting to both executives and engineers.
• Hands-on background in a language such as Java, C#, Python or JavaScript.
• Track record estimating projects and working within client budgets.

Perks and benefits:

• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise.
• Annual rate review.
• Monthly internet allowance.

We review applications as they come in.

This posting may close early if we receive enough applications.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Birmingham Technology Group.