[Hiring] Solutions Architect @Benchmark Education Company LLC
Mar 27, 2025 - Benchmark Education Company LLC is hiring a remote Solutions Architect. 💸 Salary: unspecified. 📍Location: USA.
Role Description
The Software Engineering Solutions Architect applies enterprise architecture techniques, software engineering principles, platform-centric design, and leadership expertise to create scalable, secure, and reliable solutions for Benchmark’s Software Engineering department.
This role defines technical solutions for customer-facing and backend systems, guiding internal teams and development partners across diverse technologies.
- Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of business, customer and product requirements into flexible, scalable, and high-performance technical solutions.
- Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, tradeoff, capacity modeling and interface definition studies to formalize customer requirements into solution architecture specifications.
- Successfully manages interactions with many constituents including senior business and IT leaders, end business users, application development teams, and operational teams to clarify requirements.
- Defines high-level solution architectures that prioritize scalability, fault tolerance, and security.
- Ensures that all architectures support high availability, disaster recovery, and performance optimization, particularly for distributed systems.
- Assists with writing and communicating best practices, standards, and guidelines documents that support Technology teams.
- Evaluates and applies best practices for designing highly scalable distributed solutions while leveraging cloud-native technologies.
- Drives adoption of zero-trust security models and AI/ML integration into software architecture.
- Serves as a technical advisor on IT projects and ensures adherence to established principles, guidelines, and standards.
- Maintains ongoing communication with project teams, verifying that what was designed was built and adjusting solution architecture as appropriate throughout the project.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
- 8 or more years of related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience in the development of high volume, mission critical applications in heterogeneous environments/architectures for multi-user solutions.
- Demonstrated experience designing or building highly scalable distributed solutions capable of handling large-scale workloads.
- Experience developing solutions that satisfy security, scalability, high availability, and network management/monitoring requirements.
- Experience with relational and/or non-relational (NoSQL) databases and the design of highly available, distributed database applications.
- Experience with Service Oriented Architecture concepts, web/RESTful services, and event-driven architecture.
- Experience in all aspects of the software development lifecycle: design, functional and technical requirements, coding, debugging, testing, release, and operational support.
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum development methodologies.
Requirements
- Excellent oral, written, presentation and listening communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, persuasion and diplomatic skills.
- Excellent reasoning, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong skills in a broad set of development technologies: Java, PHP, Web Services, RESTful Services, JavaScript, HTML, scripting languages, etc.
- Ability to develop technical specifications, designs, and architecture artifacts.
- Ability to take ownership of an assignment through to completion and work effectively with people from different departments, companies, and customer organizations.
- Ability to solve complex problems with multiple complex abstract variables.
- Ability to communicate technical information in an appropriate manner for widely varied audiences.
- Courage to push difficult or unpopular perspectives.
- Self-starter who solves complex technology and operational problems/issues with little to no guidance from senior management.
- Demonstrates deep knowledge/expertise in multiple and inter-dependent applications and processes.
- Remains unbiased toward any specific vendor or technology choice; is more interested in results than personal preferences.
Company Description
Benchmark Education Company is a leading publisher of core, supplemental, and intervention literacy and language resources in English and Spanish, both print and digital, as well as world-class professional development.
Since its founding in 1998, our company has proven to be one of the most nimble and innovative content creators on the cutting edge of pedagogy and technology.
The digital content in our many learning programs delivers all the rigor of its print counterpart and is designed for virtual and blended learning contexts.
Benchmark Education Publishing (BEC) and its affiliates are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
For further information, visit us at: Benchmark Education .
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Salary
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unspecified
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USA
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Mar 27, 2025
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| 📍 | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: USA |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
