Who we are…

Verra Mobility is a global leader in smart mobility. We develop technology-enabled solutions that help the world move safely and easily. We are fostering the development of safe cities, working with police departments and municipalities to install over 4,000 red-light, speed, and school bus stop arm safety cameras across North America. We are also creating smart roadways, serving the world's largest commercial fleets and rental car companies to manage tolling transactions and violations for over 8.5 million vehicles. And we are a leading provider of connected systems, processing nearly 165 million transactions each year across 50+ individual tolling authorities. 

Position Overview:

Verra Mobility is seeking a Solution Architect, who is responsible for making high-level design choices and decisions for software projects. As a technical lead, they take a bird’s-eye view of a project and decide which platforms, languages, frameworks, libraries, tools, and other technologies should be used within a business. Software architects also ensure development teams follow best practices, coding standards, and technical requirements.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Understand, communicate, and enforce the company software architecture strategy.
• Manage the design, development, and implementation of software solutions.
• Translate business needs and requirements into technical requirements for software applications.
• Guide the software development process through high-level decision making. 
• Define and document application architecture and design.
• Coach and mentor software engineers, programmers, and other team members
• Create and maintain design and code standards.
• Serve as a technical liaison among project managers, developers, and stakeholders. 
• Create overall project plans and track progress.
• Evaluate new technologies to align with future business objectives.
• Create and maintain coding tool roadmap for software needs.
• Liaison with Architecture team as software subject matter expert

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or related degree or equivalent work experience. 
• Minimum 7 – 10 Years’ Experience with software development
• Minimum 5-7 Years’ Experience in Software Architecture
• Experience with legacy software migration
• Experience in cloud native technologies and best practices
• Experience with CI/CD best practices
• Ability to lead Architecture and code reviews of the software.
• Experience with containerized environments and coding best practices
• Experience with enterprise level software development tools
• Understanding of software development processes and methodologies including, Agile, Scrum, Test Driven Development, and Continuous Integration
• Experience working with source control management tools such as GIT
• Ability to lead overall product vision and lead feature definitions
• Disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance.
• Solid work ethic, self-driven with the ability to work with minimal supervision
• Clear and effective communications skills both written and verbal
• Familiarity with software development frameworks, such as Spring
• Familiarity with software delivery platforms, such as Atlassian’s Jira, Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server (TFS), and Apache’s Subversion
• Big picture problem-solving skills
• Outside the box thinker