Senior Solutions Architect (Cloud Engineering and Developer Productivity)

At World Kinect, our employees are the key to our global success. We are industry leaders due to the innumerable talents of our approximately 5000 strong professional team. Our people thrive in an entrepreneurial and culturally-diverse environment, where innovative thinking, collaboration and efficient execution are highly valued. Our high-performance culture is what allows us to drive sustained growth. Stronger together, we promote an environment where individuals can thrive.

The Solutions Architect with be responsible for defining the architecture of multiple systems and developing solutions based on WKC predefined processes, guidelines and best practices to address business requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the identification, design, scope and development of technical solutions for enterprise applications and information systems

• Lead multiple work streams to ensure design, build and implementation adheres to enterprise vision

• Lead the development and deployment of cloud-based applications, ensuring best practices in security, performance, and reliability.

• Drive continuous improvement in developer productivity through automation, tooling, and process enhancements.

• Define and describe component stacks, integrations dependencies and data flows for technical and business users

• Serve as a key member of the customer facing team in helping to ensure customer success in building and migrating applications and services on WKC platforms.

• Work closely with Domain Architects to help align solutions with enterprise/domain-wide strategic technology direction.

• Partner with business functions, platform development and delivery teams and other architects  to enhance existing applications or ensures new systems can integrate and seamlessly communicate with other applications.

• Collaborate with other technology teams to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient architectures that address customer business problems

• Participate in deep architectural discussions and design exercises to create world-class solutions and ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment.

• Recommends policies, practices, and procedures that have a significant impact on the organization and shares best-practice knowledge amongst WFS solutions architect and technical lead community.

• Advise functional and technology leaders to assist in key initiatives, and organizational alignment that supports making informed business decisions

• Manage program and architectural interdependencies between programs across multiple Squads and the enterprise

• Facilitating the understanding and adoption of the solution architectures with the capability and service teams

• Demonstrates accountability, makes timely and appropriate decisions on programs and multiple domains

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures on AWS.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

• Conduct architectural reviews and provide recommendations for optimization and cost management.

• Stay current with AWS services, industry trends, and emerging technologies to ensure our solutions remain innovative and competitive.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• 10+ or more years' experience designing and implementing distributed applications in an enterprise environment

• 7+ years of experience in cloud architecture, with a focus on AWS.

• 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• 5+ years of experience in Agile Software Development

• Strong understanding of AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and VPC.

• Proven experience in designing and implementing large-scale, distributed systems.

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or Node.js.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and tools from Atlassian like BitBucket, Compass

• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, New Relic, or ELK stack.

• Understanding of DevOps principles and practices.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification is highly desirable.

Competencies:

• Ability to drive strategic direction

• Ability to drive problem solving and influence decision making

• Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic agile environment

• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams

• Technical expertise in managing cloud-based application platforms at scale

• Hands-on development skills to guide and lead application modernization

• Possess excellent leadership qualities to help guide, develop and attract talent

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