Solutions Architect

Minnesota - Solutions Architect

Hollstadt Overview

Hollstadt Consulting is a management and technology consulting firm dedicated to placing professionals at engagements where they will excel. When you work with us, you'll work with a refreshingly real company led and staffed by seasoned experts who are also down-to-earth, good people. We're committed to treating you with respect and helping you achieve your career aspirations.

Since 1990, Hollstadt has been a trusted partner to more than 150 domestic and global companies and has successfully completed over 3,000 projects. Our continued growth has created challenging and rewarding opportunities for accomplished IT and Business Consultants. Hollstadt Consulting is an equal opportunity employer including disability/veteran.

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Job Description

Role: Solutions Architect

Duration: 1/1/2027 - 12/31/2027

Location: Hybrid in Minneapolis, MN - 3 days onsite

Rate: up to $78.97/hour W2, dependent on skills and qualifications

Work description/deliverables:

The Solution Architect will provide input for developing IT strategic plans, architectures, and standards required to support the company's business and technology vision. This role will also play a key part of the design and support of enterprise level systems and project and application lifecycles.

Mandatory Skills:

• At least 8 years of experience with the design, development and integration of highly critical applications
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills and enterprise mindset
• Experience architecting systems for high availability, failover, disaster recovery, and redundancy
• Experience delivering COTS solutions and applications
• Proven record of delivering technology solutions within agreed upon timeframes
• Able to function well in loosely structured situations. Works effectively in situations involving uncertainty or lack of information including troubleshooting of existing systems.
• Skilled communicator and negotiator with exceptional written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Experience working with Microsoft Azure Cloud
• Effectively handles multiple projects or tasks at the same time
• Experience retiring and consolidating obsolete systems onto a modernized platform. Curious about new technologies and processes. Always seeking way to improve and share knowledge with others.

Desired Skills:

• Strong understanding of API and web services (REST/SOAP)
• Knowledge or understanding of O365/Azure AD and related capabilities
• Experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Experience working with the Microsoft Power Platform including Logic Apps, Power BI, Power Apps, and Power Automate
• Understanding in infrastructure security techniques
• Knowledge of databases, warehouses, business intelligence systems and data analysis and management tools
• Strong SQL skills

General Responsibilities:

• Contributes to strategy, principles, policies and roadmaps for the IT organization
• Develops technical capability roadmaps
• Designs technical solutions that align to enterprise standards
• Minimizes technical debt from project delivery by ensuring alignment with current and future technical direction of the organization
• Collaborates with business stakeholders, business analysts, and project managers to understand requirements
• Conducts and facilitates proof of concepts for exploring new solution options that may not have an established pattern
• Acts as the technical project liaison between IT, managed service providers, vendors, and support teams to help guide, challenge, and recommend IT solutions
• Determines level of involvement needed for a Solution Architect on a given project and communicate/adjust as necessary
• Assists with knowledge transfer and project transition steps to appropriate teams/owners/operations
• Create and maintain architecture and design artifacts for end-to-end Solution Architecture (Solution Design Documents, Software Architecture Documents, etc.)
• Facilitate effective meetings, information requirements sessions, advocate compromises and resolve conflicts
• Assist in supporting legacy business applications by providing expertise, troubleshooting and hands-on issue remediation
• Stays abreast of emerging technologies and potential application to the client

Benefits + Perks

Comprehensive Benefit Plan

Hollstadt offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, and retirement benefits to eligible employees. With three different medical plans to choose from, you can enroll in the coverage you need from individual to family, or anywhere in between!

Remarketing Process

Hollstadt is based on retention and relationships. We get to know your strengths and career wishes throughout your assignment and then start remarket discussions 6-8 weeks prior to your end date. By being proactive, we are able to keep your down time between assignments as short as possible, unless you choose otherwise.

Professional Development

Hollstadt offers on-demand training through our consultant portal. Trainings give our consultants the continuing education they need to excel on their projects. Many of our courses apply towards continuing education credits and we have an entire training hub dedicated to upskilling in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

401k + Matching

One popular benefit is our 401(k) match on the first 4% of your contributions. Hollstadt wants to help you reach your long-term financial goals and understands that planning for your future is critical. Consultants also have access to support from a Financial Advisor.

Bonus Opportunities

We appreciate and reward loyalty. Join Hollstadt, stay for 5 years, and we’ll give you a $5,000 Longevity Award bonus! Additionally, we know great talent knows other great talent.

If you are on contract with Hollstadt and refer one of your connections who gets placed, we’ll pay you $1,000!

Ongoing Support & Networking

We have made a significant investment in building a support program for our consultant team - so you never have to feel like you are going it alone. We also have a Consultant Coach program which acts like a 'work buddy' to provide a safe ear for questions or concerns at your client site.