What are the responsibilities and job description for the Enterprise Solutions Architect position at Alpha Silicon?
Job Details
Title: Enterprise Solutions Architect
Location: Houston TX
Terms: Contract
Job Description
Overview:
Seeking a senior Enterprise Solutions Architect with at least 15 years of experience to drive architecture, leadership, and hands-on development for multiple enterprise-grade applications.
This role combines MEAN stack expertise, active coding, and enterprise-wide solution governance with a strong focus on stakeholder influencing, alignment, and communication.
Role Specifics/Overview of Project
- Extensive experience as a hands-on Senior Software Architect or similar role, with Deep hands-on expertise in building, maintaining, and scaling applications using Node.js and MongoDB
Key Skills
- Enterprise architecture, stakeholder alignment, solution governance, cloud architecture, and exceptional communication and leadership
Responsibilities
- Define and govern architecture strategy and standards across a portfolio of enterprise applications, focusing on maintainable, secure, and scalable solutions using the MEAN stack.
- Actively code and prototype complex modules, directly contributing to key development efforts and system integration projects.
- Engage, influence, and align diverse business and technical stakeholders-including executives, product leaders, and technical teams-to ensure architectural decisions support organizational objectives.
- Translate ambiguous or competing business requirements into actionable technical roadmaps, negotiating trade-offs as needed to build consensus across stakeholder groups.
- Present and communicate complex architectural concepts and technical strategy clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels.
- Champion best practices in solution design, security, DevOps, and cloud adoption throughout the application lifecycle.
- Mentor and coach architects and developers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and transparency.
- Facilitate architecture reviews, lead cross-team workshops, and mediate conflicting stakeholder viewpoints.
- Provide regular progress updates, risk assessments, and technology recommendations to business sponsors and leadership.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field.
- At least 15 years of progressive experience in software engineering and architecture roles, with proven leadership across enterprise-scale systems.
- Extensive, recent hands-on coding experience with full stack (MEAN) frameworks.
- Superior ability to influence, negotiate, and manage relationships with business and technical stakeholders to drive alignment and resolve conflict.
- Deep understanding of enterprise integration, API governance, security, performance, and cloud architecture.
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills suitable for executive and cross-functional contexts.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience facilitating architecture governance boards or steering committees.
- Advanced skills in consensus-building and organizational change leadership for digital transformation.
- Certifications in enterprise or solutions architecture (TOGAF, AWS/Azure Architect, etc.).
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