Metal Toad is an award-winning AWS Consulting Partner and AWS Managed Services provider company based in the USA. We help our customers with their cloud adoption by providing architecture, migration, optimization, machine learning, and even 24x7 support. We are a professional services firm providing services in software engineering and the cloud. We do Technical consulting, Programming & Quality Assurance, DevOps, Applications, UX, Product management, and Project management.
Advanced to fluent proficiency in English is a must for our positions since it is the language we communicate at the company.
**Job description**
The Solutions Architect serves as a motivational futurist, technology evangelist, and implementation planner for our clients and employees. The most valuable outcome of this role is that our stakeholders understand _how_ our solutions are the right size for their challenges while enabling them for several years of growth.
**Outcomes**
- ** Ensure robust solutions to clients' unique problems.**-
- **Right size. **Ensure all client solutions are appropriate for their current ecosystem, capabilities, strategic roadmap, and long-term maintenance capacity.
- **Right cost. **Ensure that solutions are the right mix of build, buy, open source, modules, etc, that maximizes the clients' ROI.
- **Align stakeholders. **Produce deck slides, give presentations, and do other activities to ensure stakeholders from the C-Suite to team developers are inspired and aligned on vision.
- **Manage high level implementation of client solutions.**-
- **Mature clients' **_Architecture Roadmap_**. **Ensure every project has an Architecture Roadmap inclusive of diagrams, schemas, and other deliverables that are always _six months ahead_ of current activities.
- **Guide engineers**. Ensure engineering efforts focus on the right-size/right-cost solution to prevent over-engineering and developer spiraling.
- **Resolve escalations and misalignments**. Own and alleviate escalations about technology issues by conducting workshops, producing reports, and other necessary tactics.
- **Individual contribution.** Maintain 69+ monthly billable hours, including coding, program management, and other activities as needed.
- **Evangelize technology and future trends.**- **Account **_Technology Radars_**. **Ensure every account has a Technology Radar that unifies their ecosystem into a coherent strategy.
- **Authoring. **Author at least 8+ blog/LinkedIn articles per year.
- **Thought leadership. **2+ public contributions (blogs, open source commits, speaking, etc) per Production employee per year.
**Qualifications**
Required
- Agree with our Corporate Values Statement.
- Believes in the company mission**:_To Help People_**:
- Believes in the principles of open source.
- 8+ years experience programming.
- AWS Certified (Solutions Architect Certified) or able to achieve an AWS certification within 90 days.
- Familiar with ETL Processes and tools.
- Experience with various kinds of software documents, including data flow diagrams, data dictionaries, network diagrams, and UML diagrams.
Nice to have
- Experience with both backend and frontend programming languages.
- An AWS professional or Specialty certification.
