Solutions Architect

Chicago, United StatesOn-site

Responsibilities

Architecture design & documentation: Produce enterprise-quality solution designs and diagrams (context, C4, sequence, data-flow), reference architectures, decision records, and non-functional requirements.
Modernize Event Based Orchestration: Own the roadmap to rationalize, refactor, and migrate legacy schedules to scalable orchestrations in Control-M; establish release gates, run-book automation, and failure-auto-recovery patterns.
Observability & reliability: Design end-to-end telemetry using Datadog (metrics, logs, traces, RUM, synthetics), SLOs/SLA error budgets, and run-time guardrails; drive incident response patterns and post-incident learning.

Key technologies include Node.js, JavaScript, Python, Kafka, Control‑M, and Datadog.
The architect will also drive the evolution of software delivery practices through DevOps, CI/CD automation and automated testing, leading the way for AI‑assisted development using LLMs and generative AI across the software development lifecycle.
DevOps leadership: Define and evangelize CI/CD standards (branching, pipelines, artifact strategy, environment promotion), infrastructure-as-code, secrets management, and policy-as-code for app, data, and ML workloads.
experience in solution/enterprise/software architecture across data and application domains, with a track record of designing and drawing enterprise-grade solutions.
Hands-on proficiency operating observability platforms (preferably Datadog) and implementing metrics/logs/traces, SLOs, and incident management practices.
Solid understanding of LLM solution patterns (RAG, vector stores, guardrails, prompt patterns) and the organizational controls needed for enterprise adoption.
Proven ability to influence without authority and align diverse stakeholders on standards and best practices.
Experience with BMC Control-M at scale (migration, modernization, APIs, integrations).