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K12 believes in Education for Any One. We provide families an online option for a high-quality, personalized education experience. Students can thrive, find their passion, and learn in an environment that encourages discovery at their own pace. In support of this, we are committed to creating and maintaining a culture of inclusion and diversity where our employees are passionate about serving students and families, treat one another and customers with respect, challenge each other to innovate and always strive to do better.

As a Solution Architect, your mission is to work with business stakeholders and senior engineering staff across the Product Development and IT organizations to design the best solutions to address the business objectives for your assigned product platform(s). The role requires a strong understanding of technology, software development, and application architecture as well as excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Essential Functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

Overall K12 Architecture

- Understand K12 technology environment and architecture strategy

- Actively participate in the Architecture Council, bringing your proposed solutions to the council for review and providing insightful analysis and feedback on solutions brought by others.

- Understand the architectural strategy and roadmaps for product platforms other than your own, maintaining awareness of the mutual dependencies and cross-platform impacts

- Work with solution architects peers, engineering directors, and other technology stakeholders to evaluate solution architecture options and select the most appropriate one

Product and Platform

- Work with business representatives to understand their needs with respect to your platforms, including both functional requirements and other drivers such as total cost of ownership, time to market, etc.

- Define and maintain an architectural vision for your platforms that addresses security, reliability, performance, monitoring/operations, deployment/DevOps, testability, and other critical technical considerations in addition to meeting the functional requirements.

- Identify and maintain a prioritized inventory of the technical debt in your platforms, anticipate the issues and potential consequences it might have, and work with engineering leadership to proactively address it before it causes critical problems

- Participate in development of high-level estimates of cost and duration of initiatives to enable management to make informed decisions regarding the business case for the work.

- Work with Product Management, User Experience, and other engineering team members to define a product roadmap that breaks complex, long-term development efforts down into a logical sequence of manageable phases.

- Provide architectural assistance and guidance to product engineering teams throughout the development process, helping them to solve problems and keeping the implementation aligned with the target architecture, evolving the architecture as necessary in response to changing circumstances.

- Create and maintain documentation of the architectural strategy and decisions for your product platforms.

- Ensure that engineering teams working on your platforms fully understand the architectural vision for those platforms and how their work relates to other K12 systems in order to enable them to make better decisions

- Foster technical innovation, including conducting prototypes and proofs-of-concept as necessary to evaluate potential solutions and/or new technologies

Supervisory Responsibilities: This position initially has no formal supervisory responsibilities, but has potential to grow into a team leader position.

Minimum Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering AND

- Eight (8) years of software engineering experience, including responsibility for application architecture across multiple systems & environments AND

- Three (3) years of experience with development and solutioning on AWS AND

- Three (3) years of experience with Java, Javascript, Angular, Spring, and SQL OR

- Equivalent combination of education and experience

Certificates and Licenses: None required.

Other Required Qualifications:

- Must be adept at solving complicated technical problems

- Proven track record of enterprise architecture experience with large volume, high availability enterprise applications

- Deep analytical and critical thinking skills, including the ability to reason strategically about the future implications of current decisions and identify business risks

- A keen interest in keeping up with current technologies and approaches in the industry with a particular focus on identifying ways to apply such new techniques to improve our performance

- Ability to evaluate complex trade-offs between competing business & technical drivers to arrive at an optimal solution

- Understanding of application design patterns and enterprise integration patterns

- Experience with service-oriented-architecture and object-oriented design patterns

- Experience of distributed architectures

- Experience in Java application performance profiling and analysis.

- Excellent communication & collaboration skills with ability to document technical requirements and implementations.

- Ability to work constructively and collaboratively with business users, technical staff, and management to reconcile differing points of view and build consensus

- The ability to lead by influence rather than formal authority

- Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.); Web proficiency.

- Ability to travel 5% of the time

- Ability to clear required background check

Desired Qualifications:

- Experience in developing Software as a Service (SaaS).

- Familiar with emerging web technologies.

- Familiar with open source technologies and frameworks.

- Experience in cross browser support issues and solutions.

- Experience with Stencil and UI components, accessibility best practices, and responsive design

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

- This is an office-based or remote position. The noise level in the office is usually moderate (computers, printers, light foot traffic).

The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is 'at-will' as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the 'at-will' nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.

K12 is a Federal Contractor, an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected Veteran status age,, or genetics, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a

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