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What Does A Senior Solutions Architect Do At Suntrust Banks

* Overall architecture of thepayments platformand payments capabilities/solutions at the bank
* Includes all aspects of architecture/design - logical, functional, data, deployment/infrastructure, and all quality/non-functional attributes like security, performance/scale etc.
* Requires partnerships with other Architects, who may be specialists in one or more of these aspects.
* Architecture roadmaps, models and diagrams – current-state views, future-state views on a roadmap.
* Maintain alignment with enterprise architecture vision/strategy, corporate strategy, payments business strategy, and other key tenets laid out by senior management/leadership.
* Maintain transparency and posterity on all architecture decisions with respect to payments platform, via organized architecture meetings/forums – publish agenda, meetings notes, decision-log etc.
* Determine architectural feasibility of epics/features/stories on our backlog - help the team groom & size them.
* Aid completion of technical design and delivery, as needed, ahead of and within development sprints.
* Help us stay ahead of our competition by staying up to date on technical/architecture trends in our space
* Attend related technical and industry conferences.
* Help us hire and retain technical and non-technical talent.
* We are also aiming to transform our entire software development and release process to be less manual and discrete - ship working software incrementally, more frequently, aided by a continuous & automated code, build, test, deploy processes all the way up to highly controlled production environments.
* This person will partner with our DevOps Leads/Engineers to Architects and re-factor the platform & associated applications to achieve that vision.
* Characteristics we are looking for:
* Technology Generalist – broad/general familiarity with many different tech stacks, programming languages and frameworks, with significant depth in one or more.
* Actual experience writing code as a Developer in a modern technology stack preferably recent experience, and preferably in Java.
* Great Communicator – clear/crisp communication; someone who can bridge/straddle technical and non-technical, and influence leaders at all levels in business and technology organization using slide decks, or code/proof-of-concepts/demos, and everything in between.
* Effective Leader
* Someone with conviction, who is not afraid to debate ideas backed by facts/industry-research etc., but also knows when to seek leadership help to build alignment top-down.
* Experience leading technical negotiations between technical and business teams, as well as among peer architects.
* Up to date on Agile, DevOps and Cloud – knowledge of its benefits and actual experience implementing it, or driving it as a change-agent/change-champion.
* Friendly and positive.
* Enjoy working in a team, with experience leading working sessions and providing support/guidance to team members.
* Capable of influencing others, and disagreeing with ideas in a positive manner

What Does A Senior Solutions Architect Do At Vmware

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* This role will include, but will not be limited to the following:
* Overall responsibility for the Technical Strategy and Solution for specific opportunities and initiatives
* Responsible for understanding VMware’s customer IT environment/ requirements and how to align VMware’s technical value proposition
* Coordinates VMware’s opportunity specific technical solution with potential partners, VARS or Federal System integrators
* Leads Technical strategy and solution design reviews
* Coordinates and constitutes the requisite technical resources per opportunity or initiative (matrix environment)
* Participates in development of NDA, teaming agreements, relationships and roles
* Participates in development of the overall program specific Capture schedule.
* Participates in the identification, qualification and prioritization of an opportunity pipeline
* Participates in Customer or Partner sales calls
* Participates in the authoring of technical proposals, including technical volumes in support of VMware's Pursuit & Capture Organization
* Ability to travel to customer sites/conferences, (50%)
* Ability to obtain a US Government Security Clearance at the SECRET level and above
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What Does A Senior Solutions Architect Do At Tesoro

* Analyzes business requirements to determine and recommend solution design based on current architecture strategy.
* Analyzes the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement.
* Analyzes technology industry and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the enterprise.
* Designs and leads the implementation of an ESA based on enterprise business requirements and IT strategies.
* Designs and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring ESA compliance.
* Develops a road map of the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from current to future state (as defined by the ESA).
* Facilitate the evaluation and selection of software product standards, as well as the design of standard software configurations.
* Collaborates with other solution architects and project leaders to identify drivers and triggers that require a modification of the solution architecture based on project business requirements.
* Identifies the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, technology, information) and financial impact of a recommended solution architecture.
* Document all solution architecture design and analysis work.
* Work closely with the program management office to ensure alignment of plans with what is being delivered.
* Develops reference architecture and ensure project and solutions delivery to that target architecture.
* Coaches other solutions delivery personnel in the design of solution design best practices

What Does A Senior Solutions Architect Do At Kforce

* Translates business strategy and objectives into an enterprise technology architecture which supports the following capabilities:
* Unified Communication Services
* Cisco Jabber
* Cisco WebEx and Spark
* Enterprise webcasting
* Integration with other UC technologies (Microsoft, Avaya etc.)
* Operations
* Establishes standards and provides documentation for standards and current state designs; Acts as forward thinking and innovation source for the areas of responsibility
* Supports/guides solution architects by promoting best practices, using reference architectures, ensuring standardization across solution architectures and reflecting the technology architecture strategies in their solutions
* As a member of the Digital Workplace services architecture review team, ensures that solution architectures are aligned with the enterprise technology architecture
* Continuously researches and keeps up with latest trends, emerging technologies, new vendor products, new ways of doing things, assessing their applicability to company end users and incorporating them into the enterprise technology architecture
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline and/or equivalent work experience
* CCNP/CCIE certification
* years of experience architecting solutions
* Experience working with and/or extensive knowledge of multiple technologies in the areas of unified communication services (e.g. telephony, video conferencing, chat, messaging, fax - unified communication
* Cisco and Microsoft UC.), infrastructure/platform services (e.g. connectivity, network, archiving, back up, high availability, disaster recovery), security services (e.g. identity and access management, directory services, network security, platform security, vulnerability management) and operations (e.g. monitoring, incident management, service management)
* Development of a digital workplace and digital worker to modernize the unified communication computing environment
* Ability to innovate and develop business ROI at an enterprise level
* Ability to understand and apply abstract architectural concepts at an enterprise level
* Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication and presentation skills with the ability to effectively convey architectural concepts to business and technology peers as well as senior management
* Effective influencing and negotiating skills

What Does A Senior Solutions Architect Do At Oracle

* Participate in deeply technical architectural discussions with customers, partners and Oracle field personnel to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
* Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the field and internal teams.
* Author or contribute to customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, handbooks and presentations.
* Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
* Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support

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Senior Solutions Architect Typical Career Paths

Average Length of Employment

Information Technology Architect 4.2 years
Principal Architect 4.0 years
Senior Information Technology Architect 4.0 years
Architect Manager 3.7 years
Chief Architect 3.5 years
Technical Solutions Architect 3.4 years
Technical Solutions Consultant 3.3 years
Senior Technical Architect 3.2 years
Systems Architect 3.2 years
Senior Solutions Engineer 3.1 years
Senior Solutions Architect 3.0 years
Architect 3.0 years
Director Of Enterprise Architecture 3.0 years
Senior Consultant, Professional Services 3.0 years
Senior Consultant 3.0 years
Senior Enterprise Architect 3.0 years
Technology Architect 2.9 years
Enterprise Architect 2.9 years
Senior Architect 2.8 years
Business Solutions Architect 2.7 years
Lead Solution Architect 2.7 years
Solutions Architect 2.7 years
Lead Architect 2.5 years
Senior Consultant Architect 2.4 years
Consultant & Architect 2.4 years
Integration Architect 2.3 years
Senior Solutions Consultant 2.3 years

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Senior Solutions Architect Demographics

Gender

Male
86.6%
Female
11.1%
Unknown
2.3%

Ethnicity

White
67.2%
Asian
19.3%
Hispanic or Latino
8.7%
Unknown
4.0%
Black or African American
0.9%

Languages Spoken

Spanish
37.5%
Carrier
25.0%
German
8.3%
Japanese
8.3%
French
8.3%
Persian
4.2%
Arabic
4.2%
Korean
4.2%

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Senior Solutions Architect Education

Schools

University of Phoenix
17.2%
George Washington University
8.1%
Johns Hopkins University
5.9%
University of Washington
5.4%
University of Colorado at Boulder
5.4%
Texas A&M University
4.8%
Georgia Institute of Technology -
4.8%
New Jersey Institute of Technology
4.3%
Drexel University
4.3%
New York University
3.8%
Villanova University
3.8%
Illinois Institute of Technology
3.8%
University of Texas at Arlington
3.8%
University of Texas at Austin
3.8%
Southern Methodist University
3.8%
Western Governors University
3.8%
Capella University
3.8%
University of Rhode Island
3.2%
University of Maryland - University College
3.2%
Temple University
3.2%

Majors

Computer Science 23.0%
Business 16.2%
Electrical Engineering 8.3%
Computer Information Systems 7.4%
Information Technology 7.2%
Computer Engineering 5.1%
Management Information Systems 4.3%
Information Systems 3.9%
Management 3.4%
Finance 2.9%
Mathematics 2.5%
Engineering 2.3%
Computer Applications 2.1%
Marketing 2.0%
Accounting 1.8%
Project Management 1.7%
Electrical Engineering Technology 1.6%
Environmental Control Technologies/Technicians 1.6%
Computer Networking 1.6%
Education 1.3%

Degrees

Bachelors
40.8%
Masters
34.8%
Other
15.6%
Certificate
2.9%
Associate
2.7%
Doctorate
1.7%
Diploma
1.3%
License
0.1%

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Real Senior Solutions Architect Salaries

Job Title	Company	Location	Start Date	Salary
Senior Solution Architect	Application Development Resources, Inc.	Atlanta, GA	Sep 12, 2016	$200,000
Senior Solutions Architect	Wal-Mart Associates, Inc.	San Bruno, CA	May 26, 2016	$191,000
SR. Solution Architect	Autodesk, Inc.	San Francisco, CA	May 14, 2015	$190,258
Senior Solutions Architect	Wal-Mart Associates, Inc.	Sunnyvale, CA	Sep 23, 2015	$186,533
Senior Solutions Architect	Mongodb, Inc.	Palo Alto, CA	Feb 10, 2015	$185,000
Senior Solutions Architect	Mitchell/Martin, Inc.	Rosemont, IL	Dec 23, 2016	$185,000 - $215,000
Senior Solution Architect	Infomajesty Inc.	Santa Clara, CA	Apr 01, 2016	$180,000
Senior Solutions Architect	Mitchell/Martin, Inc.	New York, NY	Jan 29, 2016	$180,000 - $200,000
Senior Solution Architect	Fareportal Inc.	New York, NY	Oct 31, 2016	$180,000
Senior Solutions Architect	Open Society Foundations	New York, NY	Jul 13, 2016	$179,135
SR. Solutions Architect	Starpoint Solutions	Jersey City, NJ	Apr 22, 2016	$177,395
Senior Solution Architect	Dimension Data North America	Pleasanton, CA	Dec 14, 2015	$176,600
Senior Solutions Architect	Violin Memory, Inc.	Santa Clara, CA	Aug 17, 2015	$170,000
Senior Solutions Architect	Model N, Inc.	Princeton, NJ	Jan 02, 2016	$132,500 - $145,940
SR. Staff Solutions Architect, Healthcare Products	Impinj, Inc.	Seattle, WA	Sep 14, 2015	$132,142 - $190,000
SR. Solutions Architect	HSO North America, LLC	Northbrook, IL	Nov 02, 2016	$132,000
Senior Solutions Architect	EMC Corporation	Hopkinton, MA	Dec 17, 2015	$131,602
Senior Solution Architect (Manager)	Capgemini America, Inc.	Atlanta, GA	Jul 16, 2016	$131,560 - $183,000
Senior Solution Architect	Red Hat, Inc.	Charlotte, NC	Dec 08, 2016	$131,500 - $151,500
Senior Solutions Architect	Majescomastek	New York, NY	Jul 12, 2015	$131,477
Senior Solutions Architect	Synthesis Systems, Inc.	Milpitas, CA	Jun 16, 2015	$131,000
SR. Solution Architect (Computer Systems Analysts)	JDA Software, Inc.	FL	Aug 27, 2015	$111,270 - $125,249
SR. Solution Architect	Sivees, Inc.	Delray Beach, FL	Aug 29, 2016	$111,000
Senior Solution Architect	JDA Software, Inc.	Cary, NC	Mar 14, 2016	$110,698 - $125,249
Senior Solution Architect	Adaptive, Inc.	Laguna Beach, CA	May 26, 2016	$110,431
Senior Solution Architect	Adaptive, Inc.	Aliso Viejo, CA	Oct 11, 2016	$110,131
Senior Solution Architect	Adaptive, Inc.	Laguna Beach, CA	Sep 22, 2016	$110,131
Senior Solution Architect	Jade Global Inc.	San Francisco, CA	Oct 19, 2016	$110,000
SR. Solution Architect	Aarav Solutions, Inc.	San Antonio, TX	May 25, 2016	$110,000

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