Role Description
- The Architect will have experience providing technical leadership to ensure technical integrity and consistency throughout a solutions lifecycle stages.
Responsibilities:
- Document the business drivers client area processes and how those processes contribute to the achievement of the areas business goals
- Analyze the business needs of clients and stakeholders to propose potential solutions both technical and nontechnical
- Lead the translation of business requirements into highlevel design specifications
- Design and document cost effective innovative and operationally supportable solutions
- Document the structure connections and relationships of business processes organizational work groups data applications user interfaces applications interfaces infrastructure and network topology
- Design solutions that recognize and adapt to the business technical and financial constraints
- Develop solutions that recognize IT operational limitations and opportunities
- Document the effort risk costs and complexity of potential solutions
- Research and write discussion documents on such topics as emerging technologies vendors functionality and reliability of products and service offerings
- Review proposed solution architectures and ensure they align with overall enterprise architecture roadmaps standards designs and strategies
- Ensure solution architectures meet business objectives for availability reliability performance scalability maintainability manageability and security
- Ability to identify trends and create appropriate strategy and roadmap documents for Enterprise IT initiatives such as Internet of Things (IoT) Information
- Management Data Analytics and cloud platforms.
- Develop Enterprise principles standards and guidelines for enterprise solutions and strategic outlook.
- Develop Governance for enterprise solution approvals.
- Solution architecture reviews to insure alignment with Enterprise Architecture
- Develop templates for solution architectures and solution design documents.
- Develop or update domain specific architectures (business architecture application architecture mobile architecture and data / information architecture).
- Other architect duties as assigned
The Resource must have the following minimum qualifications or experience:
- Minimum of eight (8) years of experience working in technical Information Technology roles within complex enterprise environments
Minimum of three (3) years of experience developing solution architectures on projects across ntiered platforms - Expert knowledge of Information Architecture principles and techniques data management data integration and data quality platforms and tools.
- Expert knowledge in at least one enterprise ETL tool
- Minimum of three (3) years of experience working architecting solutions involving complex integration scenarios (multiplatform competing technologies SaaS and PaaS
Software as a Service) - Knowledge of process reengineering principles requirements gathering and middleware management
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into simple non technical terms for various audiences
- Ability to adapt to change in dynamically evolving situations
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Minimum 5 years experience working in an Enterprise Architect role.
- Experience communicating and presenting to senior executive management.
- Minimum 5 years experience developing and implementing standards principles guidelines strategies and roadmaps for the enterprise.
- Excellent customer service skills
It is preferred that the Resource has the following qualifications or experience:
Enterprise Architecture certifications such TOGAF Zachmann and ITI