Solutions Architect || Kansas City, MO (Onsite) || Contract

[Valzo Soft]

Position: Solutions Architect

Location: Kansas City, MO (Onsite)

Type: Contract

 

Role Description:

Solution Architect, Java/Tibco, AWS, Data Migration Role Summary Architecture & Roadmapping

•       Define the target state architecture spanning application, data, integration, security, and operations—including domain boundaries, service decomposition, and cloud reference patterns.

•       Create and maintain the modernization roadmap: iterative cutovers, strangler fig patterns, co existence strategies, and rollback plans.

•       Establish non functional requirements (NFRs) and SLAs/SLOs for availability, performance, security, compliance, resilience, and cost.

Data Strategy (Rationalization, Cleanup, Migration)

•       Lead data discovery and profiling; build a data rationalization blueprint (canonical models, golden records, de duplication rules, survivorship logic).

•       Define and govern data quality metrics (completeness, accuracy, timeliness), data lineage, and metadata standards.

•       Architect migration waves for historical data (bulk loads + change data capture), including schema mapping, validation, and reconciliation.

•       Select and guide tooling for ETL/ELT, CDC, data quality, MDM, and catalog/lineage.

•       Implement archival/retention strategies and PII masking/tokenization aligned to regulatory needs.

Application Re Write / Platform Modernization Experience Cloud, Security, and Compliance

•       Lead cloud landing zone decisions (AWS/Azure), including networking, identity, secrets management, KMS, backup/DR, observability, and cost governance.

Execution Leadership

•       Translate architecture into epics and technical stories; guide squads through iterative delivery and incremental cutovers.

•       Run architecture reviews, threat modeling, and design clinics; resolve tech debt and make trade offs visible.

•       Mentor engineers; build a culture of observability, reliability, and automation.

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Basic Qualifications

•       8–12+ years in software engineering/architecture, with 3–5+ years leading legacy modernization programs.

•       Hands on architecture experience across application, data, and cloud domains.

•       Proven delivery of data migrations at scale (TB+), including CDC and high fidelity reconciliation.

•       Strong cloud architecture skills in AWS and/or Azure (networking, IAM, storage, compute, managed databases, messaging, monitoring).

•       Solid understanding of security and compliance (encryption, secrets, least privilege, auditability).

Preferred Qualifications

•       Experience in financial services / BFSI or other regulated industries.

•       Hands on with Snowflake/Redshift/BigQuery or Azure/AWS data services (e.g., Databricks, Glue, Data Factory).

•       MDM, data quality, and catalog/lineage tools (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Ataccama, Informatica).

•       Messaging/event streaming (Kafka, Event Hubs, SNS/SQS), caching (Redis), API gateways.

•       Performance engineering and cost optimization in cloud.

•       Certifications (e.g., AWS/Azure Solutions Architect, CKA/CKAD, TOGAF).