Solutions Architect

Company: Xecta
Location: South Houston
Posted on: April 10, 2021

Job Description:

Xecta is hiring architects for multiple positions across our company. We are a cloud-hosted SaaS technology company. We provide products to the oil, gas, and renewable energy companies. We solve high-value problems. Our growing client portfolio includes some of the largest names in the energy space.

We use some cool technology (GPU databases, AKS, MQ, data streaming, React, etc) and we seek talent who either has prior experience or would like to learn these skills. We want you to help us use this technology to solve complex/large scale problems

---We take a lean, iterative approach to product development. We believe in learning, prototyping, evaluating then applying the latest technologies to continuously enhance our SaaS products.

We are looking for an experienced Solutions Architect to design and develop software for our commercial cloud solutions. This is a technical role, so the candidate will be expected to be hands-on with code in addition to architecting solutions.--

The Solutions Architect will play a fundamental role in designing and implementing commercial solutions for real-time data capture, process orchestration, data transformation, and storage. This role requires strong technical know-how in full-stack software engineering. The candidate will be accountable for solutions from design to deployment, working in an agile environment.--

Responsibilities:
--- Create and execute the roadmap to architect and implement solutions from the ground up
--- Create a well-informed strategy and a solution design that evolves as the platform scales in customer use/demand, data ingestion/integration, and vertical domain use cases
--- Lead daily software engineering of the commercial product platform
--- Manage timelines, coding sprints, and software releases
--- Implement and stay abreast of new industry tools and best practices

Qualifications:
--- 10+ years of relevant work experience designing, coding, and maintaining commercial software solutions using full-stack technologies including .NET, SPA, SQL, and No-SQL databases
--- 5+ years experience building distributed solutions within Microsoft Azure Cloud
--- 3+ years experience with time-series data or IOT type streaming data ingestion from site-to-cloud
--- Strong prior experience consuming oilfield data formats including WITSML, PRODML, and OPC/UA
--- Strong prior experience using MQ technologies to manage events within distributed systems
--- Architect level experience building solutions with .NET Core, Web API, and secure microservices
--- Architect level experience interacting .NET core with MongoDB
--- Prior experience with MongoDB deployments and data structure modifications
--- Strong analytical skills
--- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
--- Must be able to work in the highly charged, fast-paced work environment and be able to handle multiple projects
--- BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or any other related discipline
--- The percentage of travel required for this position is 0 - 20%.

About Company:
Xecta Digital Labs is where oil and gas physics intersects artificial intelligence to create the next-gen cognitive digital oilfield. Our software products and digital solutions provide oil and gas companies with practical and robust workflows for upstream, midstream, and downstream engineering.

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