Universal Orlando Resort is hiring a Solution Architect

Universal Orlando Resort is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to strategically design global application architectures that support both multi-park initiatives and individual park requirements. You will design integrations with a focus on security, performance, reliability, and scalability, while providing technical leadership and mentoring junior team members.

What You'll Do

• Act as a visionary and strategist for your solution domain area.
• Assist, design, and implement long-term strategic goals and short-term tactical plans for managing corporate technology.
• Ensure proposed and existing solution architectures are aligned with Data and Enterprise Architecture.
• Provide architectural expertise and direction to delivery teams, DevOps engineers, and other architects.
• Develop, document, and communicate plans for investing in solutions architecture, including analysis of cost reduction opportunities.
• Conduct research on emerging technologies and recommend those that increase cost effectiveness and systems flexibility.
• Provide technical assessments for new work efforts and lead the development of formalized solution methodologies.
• Build and maintain a repository for deliverables and methodologies.
• Architect, design/develop, and oversee implementation of Enterprise solutions.
• Document and maintain the organization's existing solutions architecture and technology portfolio.
• Review and provide guidance on new and existing solutions design delivered by other Architects.
• Interface and coordinate tasks with internal and external technical resources.
• Collaborate with Project Managers, vendors, and IT stakeholders to provision estimates and develop overall implementation plans.
• Model business and systems processes through use case scenarios, sequence diagrams, swaggers, workflow diagrams, and data models.
• Confer with delivery teams, product teams, and senior management to refine business requirements and collaborate on technical designs.
• Participate and actively engage with other architects and domain experts at the solution review board.
• Understand and actively participate in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities.

What We're Looking For

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a similar field.
• 9+ years of IT experience with large integrated projects, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Extensive experience in developing strategic systems architecture.
• Proven experience in system design and development, as well as system and network design.
• Repeatedly demonstrated ability to produce requirement artifacts: data flow diagrams, UML modeling techniques including sequence, component, deployment, and domain models.
• An expert-level background in software development with the ability to code at some level and knowledge of APIs and SDKs.
• A technical architecture background with an understanding of high-level networks, routers, switches, firewalls, BGP, caching, SANs, servers, and operating systems.
• Strong experience with reverse proxies, web servers, API gateways, service-oriented architectures, web services (REST), microservice patterns, service buses and integration patterns, security practices, and database technologies.
• Proven experience with databases and data storage including NoSQL and SQL databases, along with in-memory key value stores.
• Demonstrable experience in solution architecture and integration solution design.

Nice to Have

• Experience leading global enterprise engineering projects or teams.
• Familiarity with REST, Node.Js, .NET, NoSQL, SQL, native mobile applications, eventing patterns, and microservices.
• Japanese language experience.

Technical Stack

• Cloud technologies, APIs, SDKs
• Networks, routers, switches, firewalls, BGP, caching, SANs, servers, operating systems
• Reverse proxies, Web servers, API gateways
• Service-oriented architectures, Web services (REST), Microservice patterns, Service buses, Integration patterns
• Security practices, Database technologies, NoSQL databases, SQL databases, In-memory key value stores
• REST, Node.Js, .NET, Native mobile applications, Eventing patterns

Team & Environment

You will collaborate with cross-functional Agile teams across the organization including Product, Project Management, IT Security, Infrastructure, Data Architecture, and Delivery teams.

Universal Orlando is an equal opportunity employer.