Enterprise Application Architect

FULL JOB DESCRIPTION

We are looking for an exceptional talented Enterprise Application Architect to join a Fortune500 company and build their architecture practice to support the futurestate Enterprise Architecture organization. Our client is a global leader offering industryleading innovation valueadded service and expertise and is committed to people quality growth and performance.

If youre passionate about providing architecture vision leadership and principles that can make a real difference apply today! We want you to be part of the team!

As an Enterprise Application Architect you will collaborate with Product Owners and stakeholders to design and optimize applications and platform building blocks used to deliver business solutions. You will establish a program and develop competency around Application Architecture and Enterprise Application Portfolio Management developing architecture standards principles and best practices to ensure that our applications are efficient scalable resilient and adaptable as our organizations needs change. Your expertise and leadership will be critical to providing architectural guidance mentoring training and support at all levels of the DT organization ensuring that our architecture practice and discipline reach new heights of maturity and accelerate value creation. As a customer valuefocused change agent and servant leader you will play a key role in driving business value identifying disruptions and aligning opportunities that prioritize current operational demands.

We value the unique talents and abilities from all backgrounds and characteristics. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply including individuals with disabilities and Protected Veterans.

**Candidate must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship for employment visa status now or in the future.**

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Define and maintain the overall application and platform architecture for the organization
• Responsible for designing applications that are custombuilt Cloud SaaS and commercial offtheshelf (COTS) products
• Develop maintain and socialize Enterprise Application Portfolio Roadmaps in collaboration with Product Owners
• Collaborate with Solution and Domain Architects to create applications Roadmaps that outline the longterm technical vision and strategy to support business capabilities advancement
• Establish publish and socialize application architecture standards models principles and reference patterns to accelerate the delivery of architectures and solutions
• Advising on technical decisions and evaluating new technologies and tools to support the organizations application and platform needs.
• Facilitate the ongoing evolution of domain models capability maps and context views from both a business and technical lens
• Contribute to the Architecture Knowledge Repository patterns standards and blueprints
• Collaborate with ITSM organization to maintain CMDB information quality
• Design optimal continuous delivery pipelines (DevSecOps) to optimize the delivery of secure solutions
• Providing training leadership and mentorship to other technology professionals and architects within the organization
• Ensure architectures are secure and address appropriate regulatory requirements
• Increase the maturity of our architecture practice

ADDITIONAL DUTIES:

• Provide technical leadership and assistance to projects outside of architecture as identified by leadership
• Take initiative to learn research and communicate new concepts ideas and technologies
• Facilitate meetings and follow up with resulting action items
• Maintain current knowledge of the technology workspace in terms of the current state future possibilities forthcoming technologies and their relevance and impact
• Conduct research into new applications tools components and frameworks
• Lead presentations that effectively communicate ideas manage change and persuade others to action
• Participate in hiring activities and fulfilling affirmative action obligations and ensuring compliance with the equal employment opportunity policy
• Up to 10 travel as required (domestic and international)
• Work hours outside the standard office 7.5hour workday may be required

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

Formal Education & Certification

• Bachelors degree (or foreign equivalent) in a Computer Science Computer Engineering or Information Technology field of study (e.g. Information Technology Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering Computer Systems Management Mathematics) or equivalent experience.
• Masters degree is a plus.
• TOGAF CEAP CSA CSEA Cloud Architecture (AWS/Azure) or similar certifications are a plus.
• CSM SAFe ITIL APQC or similar training/certifications are a plus.

Knowledge & Experience

• 12 years of IT experience.
• 8 years of developing complex enterprise systems.
• 8 years of Application Architecture experience leveraging custom Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) and Cloud (SaaS/PaaS) components.
• 8 years of handson experience applying systems thinking to create documentation technical models reference architecture whitepapers and presentations for use by all levels of management functional and technical staff.
• Experience in the architecture and development of largescale highrisk strategic Digital Transformation Programs including projects such as ERP Ecommerce Enterprise Data Fabric CRM Digital Workplace etc.
• Experience designing and implementing cloud architectures.
• Experience creating and maintaining Enterprise Application Roadmaps.
• Experience with modern integration technologies and microservice best practices.
• Experience conducting and supporting teams through architecture tradeoff management to arrive at design decisions guided by sponsor/stakeholder priorities.
• Experience conducting proofsofconcept developing prototypes and building reference models.
• Experience developing and governing architecture standards and principles.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Prior experience designing application & platform strategies and communicating the vision to a community of stakeholders
• Experience in leading major Digital transformation programs in key business areas
• Experience in Application Portfolio Management and Continuous Delivery Pipelines (DevOps)
• Ability to understand complex technical concepts and translate them for a nontechnical audience
• Experience leading or speaking at trade conferences publishing content or active participation in professional meetups/guilds
• Strong understanding of Cloudnative application architecture
• Experience applying international constraints and context to enterprise architecture
• Experience deploying and training change management and enablement frameworks
• Experience developing the architecture for new product/platform teams
• Experience in applying systems and design thinking methodology to architecture practices

Personal Attributes

• Strong commitment to inclusion and diversity
• Excellent leader that inspires others to achieve shared goals
• Exceptional analytical conceptual and problemsolving abilities
• Excellent communication presentation and interpersonal skills
• Effective change agent
• Customerobsessed servantleader mindset
• Negotiation skills and ability to influence others by educating and sharing information.
• Promotes collaboration
• Persuasive in nature; able to disagree in a constructive fashion. Capable of improving ideas and expanding viewpoints without diminishing the contributions of others on the team
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a highpressure environment
• Ability to work in a teamoriented collaborative multistakeholder multilocation environment
• Thrives in an environment of continuous change; acts as a change champion and evangelizes the value of the continuous improvement

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