PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, AND JOB REQUIREMENTS
Updated: Aug 3, 2024 - A Principal Architect with a demonstrated ability to architect and design solutions within large, complex environments across a broad spectrum of technologies, including Infrastructure, Data Centers, Networks, and more, generating €100m in external revenue. This role requires expertise in both pre-sales, by identifying new opportunities with clients, and post-sales, managing technical outcomes and problem resolution. The ideal candidate brings accreditations in architectural frameworks, a history of working in IT services or consulting, and a background in diverse technology domains, with a proven track record in international and multicultural settings.
Summary of Principal Architect Knowledge and Qualifications on Resume
1. BA in Architecture with 2 years of Experience
- Ability to solve and design customer architectures in large, complex environments in all major portfolio areas and a range of non-standard areas in a €100m external revenue environment
- Experience working for an organization in the field of IT Services or Consulting
- Pre-sales experience in identifying new opportunities with existing customers
- Post-sales skills and experience in successfully managing technical results and taking responsibility for problem-solving
- Accreditation is a recognized architectural framework
- Experience in a similar role and completed studies
- Experience in Understanding the services and organization of Atos
- Experience in providing a track record in an international environment or in international projects
- Experience of working in multicultural teams
2. BS in Civil Engineering with 3 years of Experience
- Proven RF Engineering design of over 1,000 cell sites
- Proven point-to-point design expertise (all common frequencies)
- Proven point-to-multipoint design experience (all common frequencies)
- Proven ability to perform model tuning
- Strong LTE knowledge and strong 5G knowledge
- Ability to generate financial business cases
- Strong working knowledge of FCC and FAA requirements
- Ability to apply approved technologies and architectures for application to specific requirements for plant additions to respond to requirements for growth, new services, or network optimization. and economical means to complete the work are utilized
- Strong knowledge of Wi-Fi systems
- Expert with exposure to a cloud environment, DevOps
3. BA in Urban Planning with 4 years of Experience
- Experience pursuing clients in the Healthcare and Public Sector
- Experience in building design and construction document preparation
- Demonstrated knowledge of AutoCAD, Revit, and Microsoft Office
- 3D Modeling experience with software such as SketchUp Pro, Rhino, 3DS Max or Adobe Creative Suite
- Knowledge of local building codes
- Expert with strong knowledge of application development technologies, tools, and methodologies as well as all functional areas in an IT organization.
- Experience in the Payments domain - preferably on credit card processing, networks, Transaction research, and Exception processing
- Experience in onsite-offshore model and registered Architect a+
- Develops frameworks and reusable components
- A key player in diagnosing and mediating production issues should arise.
4. BA in Environmental Design with 2 years of Experience
- Experience with a demonstrable track record of building and leading strong architectural functions
- Proven experience in architecting data ingestion, enrichment, and analysis platforms.
- Experience within various types of service-oriented architectures (e.g. BFF / Microservices) and a modern web stack.
- Experience working within large-scale agile delivery organizations, building empowering architecture engagement models.
- Proven experience in IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS with the ability to show strong experience in adopting cloud-first approaches.
- Familiarity with light-touch architecture governance techniques.
- Experience within a product-focused environment.
- Experience working closely with data science teams to enable rapid delivery of models and access to data.
- Ability to interact and communicate closely with senior stakeholders such as the CTO and VP of Technology.
5. BS in Structural Engineering with 3 years of Experience
- Experience on Java 8+, Rest Services, HTML5, Angular Oracle 12c
- 5 or more Complex project(s) in the payments domain (which has distributed systems, legacy applications, microservices, and ESB solutions)
- Expert with multiple languages and tools.
- Expert in emerging technologies.
- Possesses broad-based and in-depth knowledge of complex technologies, tools, methodologies, the enterprise, and industry.
- Expert with Design infrastructure (including load balancing, routing, scaling, etc) and architect requirements to meet business requirements of applications and how interact with systems.
- Expert with Design services/applications and developing distributed, highly scalable, efficient, and fault-tolerant systems focused on creating solutions within Microservices architecture
- Expert Collaborates with businesses to define NFRs and Recommends IT strategy to support the goals of the business units supported.
- Able to design according to functional and non-functional needs and be able to provide multiple solution options, tech stack, and be able to drive design decisions for a project/application
- Hands-on development experience including PoCs
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