Qualifications

• Client is looking for candidates that have solid architectural experience across B2C, B2B, B2E, or B2B2C ecosystems
• We need someone who can move at the pace of digital business, while maintaining the standard of excellence; someone who can innovate along with innovative partners; someone who can leverage digital technology to help disrupt the status quo
• Flexible
• Bachelor degree in computer science, information-technology, engineering, system analysis, mathematics or a related study, or equivalent experience
• Minimum of five years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development
• Good understanding of strategic and new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models
• Recent development experience with Node.js, Java, or Python
• Experience in Azure Cloud or AWS Cloud, Cloud Engineering, Cloud Architecture
• Experience in architecting Cloud Native Applications, REST APIs,
• Awareness of Privacy regulations
• Experience in implementing security concepts
• Demonstrated ability to independently research technology
• Experience analyzing and resolving systems and application issues
• Experience evaluating risk against cost, scope, time, and available resources
• Effective communication skills
• Expertise in agile application development methodologies

Responsibilities

• Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work
• Works closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle
• Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise solution designs and change requirements to drive the organization\'s targeted business outcomes
• Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements
• Supports product managers in end of life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services, or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information
• Analyzes the technology industry, competitors, and market trends, and determines their potential implications for a given solution
• Analyzes the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement
• Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations
• Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify designs to accommodate the solutions architecture
• Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards
• Manages and develops the architecture for a broader scope of projects or products
• Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes
• Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects, and systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information
• Works closely with the program management office (PMO) or project management office to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the project or product lifecycle
• Obtains guidance from Digital Enterprise Architects (EA) on standards, regulations, EA principles, and target-state blueprints applicable to their specific solution
• Designs architectures in compliance with standards, regulations, EA principles and target-state blueprints
• Leads detail design and implementation activities
• Creates technology roadmaps
• Establishes architectural & design principals
• Analyzes technology trends and disruptions and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models
• Implements the difficult parts of project or products
• Minimizes technical exposure, cost exposure, and risk on projects
• Guides and sometimes drives evaluation of third-party software solutions
• Plan and Manage the IT Portfolio
• Leads analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
• Develops and applies architectural standards and minimal viable architectures through the EA governance model, which is informed by the business strategy and corporate governance
• Facilitates a collaborative relationship across product owners and agile development teams
• Collaborates with agile teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market
• Collaborates with infrastructure and project teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture
• Oversees EA implementation, continuous improvement and ongoing refinement activities