Position: Senior Systems and Solutions Architect
Location: Bay Area, CA

Company:
A global leader in grid consulting and engineering services is expanding in the Bay Area and is looking for exceptional Solutions 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 Bay Area. It has high-energy and exciting atmosphere of a start-up.

The staff consists of elite scientists, engineers, and architects, experts in performance computing. The clients are leading financial, technology, Internet, communication, and entertainment companies. They rely on the company’s services to architect, design, prototype, build, or tune their business-critical software systems. The team works with the very 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.

Generous compensation package includes a competitive salary, a profit sharing bonus plan and stock options.
Responsibilities:
Gain respect and rapport with the leadership of the Client Companies for deep technical knowledge, creative solutions, and broad technological expertise and vision.
Become a trusted Solutions Expert to the Customer Executives
Work closely with Business Owners to understand and shape business / functional requirements and corresponding technology solutions
Create and presents proposals, presentations and white papers to senior technical and business decision makers to win their support and influence their decisions
Define innovative and efficient architectural approaches for large projects, often across multiple technology areas
Oversee all aspects of implementation of the projects, usually carried by remote engineering team
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’s biggest technological challenges
Passion for problem solving and ability to grasp on the fly essence of the challenge
Exceptional ability to sell ideas to technical and non-technical audience.
Excellent communication skills: customer skills, presentations, and/or written white papers, conference talks
Deep, fundamental understanding of technologies and exceptional design skills and experience defining solutions across multiple technology areas
Strong and extensive hands-on software engineering experience working on large scalable distributed systems
Ability to define and create application, data or operations architectures
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:
Background in financial applications, oil-and-gas industry, or infrastructures for high-traffic web commercial sites is a big plus
Knowledge of high-performance computing, parallel processing, scale-out computing, or grid computing
Management and leadership skills
Knowledge of basic administration of two out of three systems: Linux/Windows/Solaris
Strong academic background in Sciences

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