The Architect will have experience providing technical leadership to ensure technical integrity and consistency throughout a solutions life-cycle 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 non-technical
- Lead the translation of business requirements into high-level 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 n-tiered platforms
- Expert knowledge of Information Architecture principles and techniques data management data integration and data quality platforms and tools.
- Expert knowledge and experience in Dynamics CRM and Platforms
- Expert knowledge in at least one enterprise ETL tool
- Minimum of three (3) years of experience working architecting solutions involving complex integration scenarios (multi-platform competing technologies SaaS and PaaS Software as a Service)
- Knowledge of process re-engineering 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 ITIL