Role Description:
The Architect will have experience providing technical leadership to ensure technical integrity and consistency throughout a solution’s life-cycle stages.
Responsibilities:
Document the business drivers, client area processes, and how those processes contribute to the achievement of the area’s 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
Requirements
Skill Requirements/Qualifications:
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 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
Preferred Qualifications or Experience:
Enterprise Architecture certifications such TOGAF, Zachmann, and ITI
