Solutions Architect (Local to IL)

Job Description:

Focused on your fleet and driving optimal results to your business. Wheels is the world’s most experienced automotive fleet leasing and management company, and a trusted industry leader. We provide organizations around the world with company cars and trucks along with state-of-the-art services and support.

• We’re the largest privately held fleet management company. In fact, with more than $1.6 billion in annual sales and nearly $3 billion in assets, we’re one of North America’s largest private companies in any industry.

• Our single line of business gives us a dedicated focus. Fleet leasing and management are all we do, so we’re able to commit 100% of our resources to delivering innovative fleet solutions for our clients.

• Find us around the corner and around the world. With more than 300,000 vehicles under management throughout North America and more than 1.6 million globally, chances are you see a Wheels vehicle on the road every day.

• We service some of the world’s best-known companies. Our client portfolio includes dozens of Fortune 500 businesses and other leading organizations who view their sales or service fleets as a strategic business tool.

• Solutions Architect

Under general direction, formulate/define system scope and objectives for key business systems through multiple releases.

• Devise or modify procedures to solve complex problems.

• Develop prototypes and prepare detailed specifications from which programs will be written.

• Analyze and revise existing system logic difficulties and documentation as necessary.

• Lead development, debugging and testing of client/server and web applications, including but not limited to graphical user interface development SOA Service development and SQL database development, as well as program maintenance when necessary.

• Work at the highest technical level through all phases of Wheels' Application Development methodology.

• Develop and mentor Tech Leads across development teams.

• Participate with Architecture on technology.

• Stay informed on SDLC best practices and actively drive process improvements and adoption across the development teams.

Responsibilities:

Business Relations

• Gain deep understanding of the business capabilities and objectives for the business area supported.

• Work with business leaders and users to gain understanding of challenges and opportunities that can be addressed through potential technology solutions.

• Implement technology capabilities and solutions that support and enable the business strategy, processes and objectives for the business area supported.

• Ensure a cross-functional view and roadmap to maximize business value of technology investments for business area supported.

Solution Design

• Lead development and communication of end-to-end vision for technical solutions that may be implemented across multiple phases, including road maps for stable transition from existing systems to new solutions

• Identify buy vs. build opportunities and evaluate candidate package solutions where appropriate

• Facilitate the development of Non-Functional Requirements (technical requirements) balancing the needs of business owners with technical feasibility; explain and negotiate the tradeoffs and cost/effort.

• Architectural and Technical Roadmap

• Work directly with the Enterprise Architecture team to validate the consistency of a solution design with the strategic technology direction and standards.

• Work with Enterprise Architecture on development and/or enhancements to strategic technology direction and standards, representing and advocating the development teams’ perspective.

• Partner with Architecture on technology direction, and the related evaluations, POCs and decisions.

• Communicate new requirements to the Enterprise team and work with them on an ongoing basis to extend the Enterprise Architecture standards and guidance.

Team Development

• Work with technical leads to ensure performance, availability, scalability, integrity and usability.

• Champion and gain buy in from the Tech Leads and development teams for strategic technology direction and standards.

• Mentor and develop Tech Lead capabilities.

• Actively drive common standards, best practices and process improvements across the development teams.

• Work with PMs, Tech Leads and Developers to ensure proper solution implementations, with adherence to all required standards.

• Coordination and Organizational Improvement

• Coordinate with infrastructure regarding structure, implementation and monitoring of solutions, across environments

• Coordinate with release management to drive automation of all deployment artifacts.

• Coordinate with security architect to drive adoption of enterprise security standards.

• Coordinate with QA on proper strategies to ensure quality; collaborate with QA to develop performance and load test scenarios.

Qualifications:

Excellent technology design knowledge and expertise including extensive knowledge of one or more of the following:

• Microsoft .NET Framework up to and including 4.6+

• Web Application Development, including server-side and RIA

• Angular JS, and related UI technologies (gulp/NPM/etc)

• Automated build, test, and deployment technologies

• Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

• Performance Analysis and Performance Engineering

• UI Prototyping techniques

• Service Oriented Architecture and Service Modeling

• DevOps concepts and strategies

Excellent ability to understand corporate strategy and technology direction and translate business needs into effective technology designs.

• Excellent organizational and planning skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Excellent inter-personal skills

• Ability to actively participate and audit artifacts from multiple, concurrent projects

• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community

• Desire to share knowledge and help others build their careers

• Orientation toward continuous improvement

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

No direct reports.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

BS degree and minimum 5+ years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Titles: Solution Architect, Technical Architect, .NET Solution Architect, Senior Solution Architect

Skills: Angular JS, .NET, DevOps, Asp.NET