Technical Analyst / Architect

Technical Analyst / Architect

The existing systems in production and new systems that will be implemented, are critical to meet the mission

This position is for a Technical Analyst and general wide technical experience in architecture, design, development, implementation, and testing is required.

The ideal candidate must have the following experience:

• 5 years of success in a technical role working with technical leads.
• Work with the Solution Architect to provide feedback and suggestions to develop an effective technical architecture.
• Identify technologies and approaches to implement tools to support client.
• Coordinate with business partners and analyze business requirements in light of technical tools, design patterns and implementation approaches.
• Coordinate with team members to assist in triaging and researching infrastructure and application issues to a successful remediation.
• Coordinate with infrastructure and cloud operations on service tickets and pending configuration work such as the creation of firewall requests.
• Assist business partners to analyze changes in requirements and provide support to all team members in identifying the method to implement the change.

Highly desirable for the candidate to have a minimum of 3 years of general experience with:

• Review current architecture artifacts from contractor and internal staff and use them as a basis to validate what has been provided against discovery of said architecture.
• Working with the Solution Architect, create a Technology Reference Architecture (Model) - this will identify the technology standards and elements that comprise the ecosystem and how they support the business capabilities.
• Document all integrations to include point to point integrations, 3rd party integrations, API’s, SFTP, Microservices and who owns the integrations and the support model for those.
• Document Business Process Mapping - this will provide a business architecture view of the system and will inform our customers of key elements that can drive business process improvements.
• Working with the Solution Architect, provide architectural recommendations on what applications, integrations, platforms to use in order to increase accessibility, scalability, ease of use, reduced costs, improved security and standardization.
• Partner with OIT, CDLE stakeholders and strategic partners on deliverables in a phased program approach to ensure buy-in from everyone on the value of said deliverables.

Experience and Skill Requirements:

• Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure
• Architecture Best Practice
• Working with a development team and experience with a CI/CD pipeline and release management
• Elicitation of technical and business requirements
• Ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Prior experience working on data conversions

The candidate must possess the following:

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interact and communicate well with individuals at all levels of the organization, either independently or as part of a team.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate technical information either individually or in a group setting to the user in understandable terms.
• Ability to read, write and interpret documents such as procedure manuals, technical publications, work instructions, and software manual.
• Ability to developed detailed and clear presentations and reports on technical tools, approaches, and processes.
• Excellent reasoning ability with the ability to understand and implement instructions furnished in written, verbal, or diagram form.