Senior Solutions Architect
Insomniac Design is a global digital agency headquartered in Washington D.C., with offices in London, Bucharest and Chisinau. We’re an agile, determined and innovative team organized by functional areas of expertise — Creative, Technology, Strategy, and Management. We specialize in human-centered design with deep focus on design thinking and digital transformation.
The Senior Solutions Architect will be responsible for leading client engagements, designing enterprise architecture solutions, and overseeing the technical relationship between our clients and the development team. You will have adept experience in pre-sales support, managing successful client engagements, data modeling, schema design, systems architecture, and web application development in a cloud-first environment.
General Responsibilities:
Expected to have a significant impact within the immediate department, driving innovation and leading strategic initiatives.
Invents efficient solutions to problems with no known resolutions, designs and implements frameworks, processes and tools to address complex challenges.
Able to invent automation, processes, or align work to industry best practices or revolutionary ideas, influencing the overall direction of the organization, shaping organizational strategy.
Invents and/or leads implementation of product, process, automation and/or streamlines work with industry best practices or revolutionary ideas, contributing to measurable improvements at the department level.
Enables and unlocks new business strategies through the development of innovative processes.
Mentors all team members, actively participates in the hiring process, leads business improvements, and plays a key role in performance management.
Responsibilities:
Partner with clients to understand their business needs and design and document detailed solutions that meet those requirements. This includes developing white papers, client proposals, presentations, system architecture diagrams, and others as appropriate.
Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure the technical feasibility of solutions.
Lead production and delivery of technical cloud-native application software development proposals to clients.
Manage client relationships, acting as the primary technical point of contact.
Define, document, and lead data schema definition and design.
Participate as a software development team member, contributing code as a project team developer, and providing software development thought leadership.
Develop and implement best practices for technical delivery, such as coding standards, code reviews, and automated testing.
Troubleshoot technical issues.
Work with the development team to deliver solutions through to production.
Mentor software team members, actively participates in the hiring process, leads internal business process improvements, and plays a key role in performance management.
Support pre-sales in conjunction with our strategy and business development teams.
Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in web development, cloud platforms, and data schema design.
Skills & Experience:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
3+ years of technical client-facing experience with the ability to manage multiple clients simultaneously.
10+ years of hands-on software or application development experience within multiple languages such as Python, Scala, R, or Java.
Ability to participate in our software proficiency test.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to independently manage enterprise-level clients (i.e. proposal writing, RFP responses, requirements gathering, pitches, brainstorming sessions, etc.)
Ability to effectively collaborate with cross-departmental internal stakeholders.
Experience using frameworks such as FastAPI and Cloud Development Kits.
Expertise in data schema design and modeling.
Experience working in an Agile development environment.
Experience with cloud-based platforms, such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
Experience with front-end frameworks such as React.
Experience supporting pre-sales efforts for enterprise-level clients.
$160,000 - $190,000 a year
Insomniac Design is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone is treated with respect and dignity. We believe that embracing differences in race, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, and cultural backgrounds allows us to create better solutions for our clients and a stronger team. We strive to ensure that all employees, candidates, and clients feel valued and respected, and we continuously work to improve our practices and policies to foster a more diverse and inclusive environment.
Applicant Eligibility: Please note, candidates who are eligible to work in the US without visa sponsorship are eligible to apply. No recruiters or staffing agencies please.
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Senior Solutions Architect
Insomniac Design is a global digital agency headquartered in Washington D.C., with offices in London, Bucharest and Chisinau. We’re an agile, determined and innovative team organized by functional areas of expertise — Creative, Technology, Strategy, and Management. We specialize in human-centered design with deep focus on design thinking and digital transformation.
The Senior Solutions Architect will be responsible for leading client engagements, designing enterprise architecture solutions, and overseeing the technical relationship between our clients and the development team. You will have adept experience in pre-sales support, managing successful client engagements, data modeling, schema design, systems architecture, and web application development in a cloud-first environment.
General Responsibilities:
Expected to have a significant impact within the immediate department, driving innovation and leading strategic initiatives.
Invents efficient solutions to problems with no known resolutions, designs and implements frameworks, processes and tools to address complex challenges.
Able to invent automation, processes, or align work to industry best practices or revolutionary ideas, influencing the overall direction of the organization, shaping organizational strategy.
Invents and/or leads implementation of product, process, automation and/or streamlines work with industry best practices or revolutionary ideas, contributing to measurable improvements at the department level.
Enables and unlocks new business strategies through the development of innovative processes.
Mentors all team members, actively participates in the hiring process, leads business improvements, and plays a key role in performance management.
Responsibilities:
Partner with clients to understand their business needs and design and document detailed solutions that meet those requirements. This includes developing white papers, client proposals, presentations, system architecture diagrams, and others as appropriate.
Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure the technical feasibility of solutions.
Lead production and delivery of technical cloud-native application software development proposals to clients.
Manage client relationships, acting as the primary technical point of contact.
Define, document, and lead data schema definition and design.
Participate as a software development team member, contributing code as a project team developer, and providing software development thought leadership.
Develop and implement best practices for technical delivery, such as coding standards, code reviews, and automated testing.
Troubleshoot technical issues.
Work with the development team to deliver solutions through to production.
Mentor software team members, actively participates in the hiring process, leads internal business process improvements, and plays a key role in performance management.
Support pre-sales in conjunction with our strategy and business development teams.
Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in web development, cloud platforms, and data schema design.
Skills & Experience:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
3+ years of technical client-facing experience with the ability to manage multiple clients simultaneously.
10+ years of hands-on software or application development experience within multiple languages such as Python, Scala, R, or Java.
Ability to participate in our software proficiency test.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to independently manage enterprise-level clients (i.e. proposal writing, RFP responses, requirements gathering, pitches, brainstorming sessions, etc.)
Ability to effectively collaborate with cross-departmental internal stakeholders.
Experience using frameworks such as FastAPI and Cloud Development Kits.
Expertise in data schema design and modeling.
Experience working in an Agile development environment.
Experience with cloud-based platforms, such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
Experience with front-end frameworks such as React.
Experience supporting pre-sales efforts for enterprise-level clients.
$160,000 - $190,000 a year
Insomniac Design is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone is treated with respect and dignity. We believe that embracing differences in race, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, and cultural backgrounds allows us to create better solutions for our clients and a stronger team. We strive to ensure that all employees, candidates, and clients feel valued and respected, and we continuously work to improve our practices and policies to foster a more diverse and inclusive environment.
Applicant Eligibility: Please note, candidates who are eligible to work in the US without visa sponsorship are eligible to apply. No recruiters or staffing agencies please.