Position: Senior Solutions Architect
Location: Fremont, CA

Company:
A global leader in grid consulting and engineering services is expanding in the Bay Area and is looking for exceptional Architects with passion for building and scaling applications and mission-critical systems of “extreme” performance, scale and reliability to join their team. The company is young, fast growing and profitable with the headquarters in Silicon Valley.
The staff consists of elite scientists and engineers, experts in performance computing. The clients are leading financial, technology, Internet, communication and entertainment companies such as eBay or Bank of America, rely on the company’s services to architect, design, prototype, build, or tune their business-critical grid systems. The team works with the latest technologies, platforms and tools, right on or beyond the bleeding edge of mainstream computing. The engineers are true experts and thought leaders, dedicated to contributing technology and insights to the Open Source community.
Why this is a unique opportunity?

Work in Bay Area with established leaders in their industry
High-energy atmosphere of a start-up, coupled with a generous compensation package that includes a competitive salary, a profit sharing bonus plan and stock options
Work on bleeding-edge projects within grid computing and distributed computing with a highly motivated and dedicated team
Responsibilities:

Define architectural approach for projects, often across multiple technology areas for large projects or program
Work closely with Business Owner to understand and shape business / functional requirements and corresponding technology solution
Assist development team with detailed design
Oversee all aspects of implementation of projects, usually carried by remote engineering team
Estimate implementation effort and required resources
Create proposals, presentations and white papers
Presents proposals, presentations and white papers to senior technical and business decision makers to win their support and influence their decisions
Act as trusted advisor to the customer executives
Work closely with customers, key stakeholders and engineering teams
Coach and mentor junior engineers
Help with pre-sales and marketing events as requested by the management

Requirements:
Passion for technology and innovation. Strong desire to push the envelope, find commercial applications of big ideas, to create breakthrough solutions to the world’ biggest technological challenges
Excellent communication skills: customer skills, presentations, and/or written white papers, conference talks
At least 7 years experience as a technical engineer
Ability to define and create application, data or operations architectures
Technical design skills and experience defining solutions across multiple technology areas
Ability to proactively identify issues and coordinate resolutions
Ability to juggle work on several projects at the same time
Comfort in working with globally distributed teams
Willing to travel up to 20% to lead client engagements and support pre-sale activities

Pluses:
Programming background with Java, C+, C++ or C# or .Net
Background in financial applications, oil-and-gas industry, or infrastructures for high-traffic web commercial sites is a big plus
Knowledge of basic administration of two out of three systems: Linux/Windows/Solaris
Knowledge of high-performance computing, parallel processing, scale-out computing, or grid computing

Strong academic background in Sciences

To apply:
Please send your resume in WORD format to
lilia AT eltisolutions DOT com
Place the text “Senior Solutions Architect” in the subject line.
Please provide the date you are available to start work.