WDS Architect (Workplace Digital Services)

San Antonio, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 12 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Role- WDS Architect

Location: San Antonio TX (Onsite)

Job Type: Contract

Position Summary

The WDS Architect will lead architecture efforts for collaboration platforms and ecosystems establish standards and governance and partner with stakeholders and engineering teams to define current and target state architectures and a 3 year roadmap for the domain.

Stakeholder & Community Engagement

Meet business stakeholders and engineering teams to capture perspectives and align direction.
Engage with the IT Architecture community through formal and informal venues.
Brief business stakeholders and present architecture recommendations to leadership.

Domain Assessment & Road mapping

Familiarize with the domain; review current and past domain assessments.
Document a new domain assessment including current state gaps risks and recommendations.
Develop and showcase a 3 year roadmap with current state and target state architectures and a transition plan.

Standards Decisions & Governance

Create and maintain Standards Waivers Tech Decisions and Assessments.
Understand and apply architecture processes and governance (equivalent to established organizational practices).
Contribute to Business of Architecture activities: set direction govern direction and govern portfolio processes.
Support governance processes for app approval data classification and lifecycle policies.

Process & Risk Participation

Support and participate in TPA TPRM and CRP processes in the architects role.
Drive technical decisions and ensure alignment with established standards and waivers.
Review and proof artifacts with peer architects Tech Fellow Director and engineering community.

Technical Expertise & Platform Experience

Deep experience with major collaboration suites:
- Microsoft 365 (Teams SharePoint OneDrive Exchange)
- Slack Enterprise Grid
- Zoom
- Box
Experience with collaboration telemetry analytics and adoption dashboards; knowledge of the Aternity platform.
Understanding of platform extensibility: AI features APIs app frameworks bots workflows.
Ability to evaluate SaaS vendors licensing models and feature roadmaps.
Expertise in identity and access management (e.g. Azure AD Okta) including conditional access MFA SSO and least privilege models.
Familiarity with secure data handling practices: DLP and encryption.
Solution architecture skills: translate business requirements into scalable architectures and define functional/nonfunctional requirements (performance availability compliance).
Road mapping & governance expertise: define platform roadmaps with versioning and deprecation plans.

Role- WDS Architect Location: San Antonio TX (Onsite) Job Type: Contract Position Summary The WDS Architect will lead architecture efforts for collaboration platforms and ecosystems establish standards and governance and partner with stakeholders and engineering teams to define current and target...