Solution Architect

Job Title: Solution Architect

Location: Remote, NY.

Employment Type: Temp (6 Months)

Industry: Banking

Compensation: $75.00/Hour

Schedule: 40 Hours/Week

About the Opportunity:

• Design scalable, resilient infrastructure solutions across enterprise data centers, colocation environments, and Microsoft Azure.
• Lead architecture planning for availability, disaster recovery, connectivity, and operational readiness initiatives.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, network, and platform teams to align solutions with enterprise standards and cloud strategy.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

• Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
• Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
• People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
• Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.

Why This Opportunity is Exciting:

This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritises both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.

About Acara Solutions

Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

Sound like a good fit?

TODAY

What You'll Do:

• Translate business and technical requirements into end-to-end infrastructure and platform architectures.
• Define data center and colocation hosting models, resiliency tiers, redundancy patterns, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Align infrastructure solutions with Azure landing zone principles, including identity, governance, networking, and security.
• Design secure connectivity and network segmentation between Azure and on-premises or colocation environments.
• Develop operational support models including monitoring, telemetry, maintenance planning, and lifecycle management.
• Create reusable reference architectures, standards, and infrastructure design patterns.
• Participate in architecture governance reviews to ensure compliance and standards alignment.
• Communicate technical strategies and architecture decisions to both technical and business stakeholders while supporting implementation teams.
• Solution Designs: Documented target-state architectures for Azure and colo/data center deployments, including resiliency and operational models.
• Reference Architectures & Patterns: Reusable patterns for common workload types and hosting approaches in Azure and colo/data center environments.
• Connectivity & Segmentation Designs: Standard approaches for secure connectivity, routing, and segmentation between environments.
• Operational Readiness Package: Monitoring approach, runbooks, ownership model, lifecycle/patching approach, and DR posture aligned to architecture decisions.
• Decision Records & Documentation: Architecture decisions, trade-offs, dependency maps, and implementation guidance for delivery teams.

Job Requirements

What You'll Bring:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Minimum of 9+ years of experience in solution architecture, infrastructure architecture, or platform engineering roles with demonstrated data center/colo responsibilities.
• Minimum of 9+ years of experience with multiple programming languages
• Minimum of 9+ years of experience in software or service engineering and delivery
• Minimum of 9+ years of experience in developing and integrating applications using relevant software architecture principles and patterns
• Minimum of 9+ years of experience in Microsoft Azure expertise: app design, connectivity, resiliency, etc.
• Minimum of 9+ years of experience in Design scalable, compliant end‑to‑end solution architectures
• Minimum of 9+ years of experience in Clear stakeholder communication across business, tech, and risk

What Sets You Apart:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• Azure Solutions Architect (or similar Azure architecture credential).
• Experience working in two or more technical roles related to banking technical design
• Experience in delivering technology and enterprise-level presentations
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Industry-recognized certification in programming languages and cloud technologies
• Experience working in the financial services industry
• Experience in financial services or other regulated environments with strong operational rigor and compliance awareness.
• Enterprise solution architecture experience with data center and colocation hosting models.
• Strong architectural knowledge of availability, resiliency, disaster recovery, and operational readiness patterns.
• Azure platform architecture fundamentals, including identity and access, network topology, governance guardrails, and operations management concepts.
• Strong documentation and visualization skills (architecture diagrams, dependency maps, data flows, and decision records).
• Leadership and collaboration skills in Agile/DevOps environments; ability to guide delivery without becoming an implementation bottleneck.
• Analytical problem-solving for complex infrastructure constraints (performance, latency, reliability, and cost).
• Data Center / Colocation: Redundancy concepts, fault domains, hosting models, capacity planning considerations, and operational support practices.
• Disaster Recovery: Failover/failback concepts, recovery objectives, testing expectations, and resiliency trade-offs.
• Azure Landing Zone Concepts: Identity and access as a primary security boundary; subscription and resource organization impacts; network topology and connectivity foundations; security, governance, and operational management baselines.
• Monitoring Foundations: Understanding of telemetry (logs, metrics, traces, events) required to support early detection and effective incident response.

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.

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