Solutions Architect

Senior Solutions ArchitectLocation: Philadelphia, PA Salary: $130k/yr. Position Type: Full time Interview Process: Phone Followed by F2F US Citizen, Green Card and GC EADCore Responsibilities:Access the technology landscape and identify critical deficiencies. Recommend solutions for improvement.Establish, define, maintain and communicate guidelines, principles, standards and best practices across all ERP systems architectures.Provide technical leadership for solution architecture management with key focus in the areas of systems design, integration, security and management.Collaborate with Comcast development, security, and support organizations to establish reusable frameworks and govern adoption/usage.Serves as the subject matter expert in SOA concepts and strategies and lead the ongoing efforts to mature our integration solution portfolio.Serves as the subject matter expert in approaches and best practices that enable the development or transformation of internal solutions to externally managed, cloud-based technologies.Understand, advocate and augment the architecture principles within the software suite leveraged by ERP, while ensuring alignment to support forward looking business and technology strategies.Analyze enterprise business trends and developing strategies to derive future state integration architecture for ERP Services.Drive and influence the successful implementation of strategic architectures.Job Specification:Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field. Combinations of relevant education, certifications, and experience may be considered in lieu of a degree. Continuous learning, as defined by Comcast's learning philosophy, is required. Certification or progress toward certification is highly preferred and encouraged.5-8 years of progressive responsibility in an IT environment with demonstrated technical knowledge which provides the necessary skills, knowledge and abilities.5-8 years related experience planning, designing, delivering, and improving platforms, services, and customer experience with technology solutions or innovations.3-5 years relevant experience with enterprise-wide integration architecture required. Additionally, this position requires demonstrated knowledge and expertise in a broad range of information technology applications and infrastructures, as well as knowledge of how these technologies can be leveraged to solve business needs.Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:Clear understanding of commonly used development, operations, and architecture guiding principles and best practices.Experience with related industry frameworks and methodologies including waterfall, iterative, agile, SCRUM, and ITIL.Strong verbal and written communication skills with presentation experience.Ability to work as a collaborative member of a team while also being comfortable in leading a work initiative when directed to do so.Ability to set strategic architectural direction in integration technologies.Deep knowledge in service oriented architecture frameworks, standards and tools.Recent working knowledge for design, configuration and management of one or more application development platforms and frameworks including Weblogic, JBOSS,.NET, AJAX, .NET, REST, Perl, HTML5, and Objective-C.Recent knowledge of business and systems flows within ERP environments, a plus.A clear understanding of the architecture standards and best practices surrounding integration technologiesA clear understanding of the security considerations and implications surrounding SOA and architectures and security frameworks used to mobile-enable business functions within the organization.Ability to determine the architectural implications from requirements that might impact other application ecosystems.Ability to breakdown requirements into project estimates and determine timelines and dependencies with the other domains/ projects.Ability to manage small work teams with experience in one or more project management tools.Clear understanding of ongoing and planned projects and their interdependencies/timelines.