Application Architect

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Enterprise Application Architecture Develop and maintain the enterprise application architecture roadmap aligned with Aureon's business strategy and technology vision. Define and document current-state, transition-state, and future-state application architectures. Establish application architecture principles, standards, patterns, decision records, and governance processes. Create and maintain enterprise application capability maps, system context diagrams, and platform interaction models. Evaluate existing platforms and recommend opportunities for consolidation, modernization, optimization, or replacement. Conduct architecture reviews and provide recommendations on application design, platform selection, solution fit, and technical debt. Ensure the application portfolio supports strategic business objectives while minimizing unnecessary complexity, duplication, and operational risk. Integration Architecture and API Strategy Design and govern enterprise integration architecture across business applications, customer platforms, operational systems, analytics environments, and third-party solutions. Establish standards and reusable patterns for APIs, middleware, event-driven architecture, enterprise messaging, data services, workflow automation, file exchange, and SaaS integrations. Define appropriate real-time, near-real-time, event-driven, and batch integration approaches based on business and technical requirements. Ensure integrations are secure, resilient, scalable, observable, supportable, and maintainable throughout their lifecycle. Create integration reference architectures, interface inventories, sequence diagrams, canonical models, and system interaction documentation. Partner with development teams, administrators, vendors, and implementation partners to translate architecture into working integration solutions. Ensure integration designs preserve data integrity, consistency, auditability, traceability, privacy, and appropriate error handling across platforms. Design synchronization and orchestration patterns for master and transactional data across enterprise applications. Information and Data Architecture Define and maintain enterprise information architecture principles and standards that support operational, analytical, reporting, automation, and approved AI use cases. Identify and document systems of record, authoritative data sources, data ownership, stewardship responsibilities, and data lifecycle expectations across business applications. Establish architecture standards for customer, product, service, billing, contract, operational, and financial data domains. Develop and review conceptual, logical, and high-level physical data models that support business processes, system integrations, analytics, and application modernization. Design and document enterprise data flows between applications, integration services, reporting platforms, analytics environments, and automation solutions. Partner with business and technology teams to improve data consistency, quality, usability, and trust while reducing duplicate or conflicting data. Collaborate with data engineering and analytics teams to ensure operational applications support reporting, business intelligence, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and approved AI requirements. Support data governance activities including data quality, metadata management, lineage, classification, retention, ownership, access, and master data management. Ensure application and integration architectures align with long-term operational and analytical data strategies. Business Process Architecture Collaborate with business teams to understand end-to-end business processes, customer journeys, business rules, handoffs, and information needs. Design application ecosystems and cross-platform workflows that support efficient, scalable, and measurable business operations. Identify opportunities to eliminate manual processes, redundant data entry, disconnected workflows, and unnecessary platform complexity. Create future-state business process, application interaction, and information flow models. Design workflow orchestration across multiple systems and support process standardization and automation initiatives. Partner with business leaders, process owners, and product owners to align technology investments with customer and operational outcomes. Platform Modernization and Transformation Lead application and integration architecture activities associated with enterprise platform modernization initiatives. Develop target-state architectures, transition roadmaps, migration approaches, integration transition plans, and application retirement strategies. Evaluate emerging technologies, enterprise SaaS platforms, integration services, and application capabilities. Support software selection, requests for proposal, proofs of concept, vendor assessments, technical due diligence, and business case development. Provide architecture leadership through discovery, design, implementation, testing, cutover, stabilization, and operational transition. Security, Compliance, and Governance Ensure application, integration, and data architecture designs incorporate security, privacy, compliance, resiliency, and governance requirements. Collaborate with Information Security and GRC teams throughout the solution lifecycle. Define secure integration patterns, API governance requirements, authentication and authorization expectations, and appropriate data protection controls. Ensure designs align with Aureon policies, contractual requirements, data handling standards, and applicable control frameworks. Participate in architecture risk assessments, control reviews, exception evaluations, and remediation planning. Technical Leadership and Collaboration Serve as a trusted advisor to technology and business leadership on application, integration, and information architecture decisions. Facilitate architecture reviews, design workshops, solution evaluations, and cross-functional decision-making sessions. Communicate complex technical concepts, options, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs to technical and nontechnical audiences. Build consensus among stakeholders and influence decisions without direct authority. Manage multiple priorities, communicate status and risks, and escalate decisions requiring leadership direction. Maintain professional knowledge through continuing education and industry best practices. Other duties and responsibilities as assigned and required. EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND EXPERIENCE: Bachelor's degree from a four-year university in computer science, information systems, software engineering, business information systems, data management, or a related field. Equivalent education and relevant experience may be considered. Eight or more years of progressive technology experience, including five or more years designing enterprise application, integration, solution, or information architectures. Experience designing integrations across complex enterprise application environments and leading application modernization initiatives. Experience with SaaS, cloud, hybrid application, API, middleware, workflow automation, and data integration architectures. Experience supporting enterprise data architecture, data governance, analytics, reporting, or master data initiatives. Experience leading cross-functional architecture decisions and influencing teams without direct authority. REQUIRED SKILLS: Strong understanding of enterprise application architecture, integration architecture, information architecture, and solution design principles. Deep knowledge of API design, middleware, event-driven architecture, enterprise messaging, service-oriented concepts, integration patterns, and interface lifecycle management. Experience designing integrations among CRM, customer service, billing, ERP, ITSM, analytics, identity, finance, and operational platforms. Strong understanding of business process design, workflow orchestration, business rules, system boundaries, and application capability mapping. Working knowledge of data modeling, data governance, data quality, master data management, metadata, lineage, classification, retention, and information lifecycle principles. Understanding of transactional, operational, analytical, and reporting data architectures and how application decisions affect downstream data use. Ability to create application architecture diagrams, integration maps, sequence diagrams, data flow diagrams, conceptual and logical data models, interface specifications, and solution designs. Ability to translate business objectives into scalable application, integration, workflow, and information architecture solutions. Strong analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, documentation, and organizational skills. Effective written, verbal, presentation, and stakeholder communication skills for technical and nontechnical audiences. Ability to evaluate options, articulate trade-offs, manage competing priorities, and navigate organizational and technology change. Strong judgment, attention to detail, customer focus, and commitment to confidentiality, security, and responsible handling of company and customer information. TOOLS, EQUIPMENT, AND SOFTWARE: Experience with enterprise platforms such as Salesforce, customer service platforms, billing systems, ERP solutions, ITSM platforms, data and analytics platforms, and enterprise SaaS applications. Experience with REST APIs, GraphQL, web services, middleware, event streaming, ETL/ELT, enterprise messaging, integration platforms as a service, and workflow automation technologies. Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure Integration Services, Power Platform, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Purview, or comparable integration, data, governance, and analytics platforms is desired. Familiarity with modern data architecture concepts including data warehouses, lakehouses, data lakes, semantic models, master data management, and data virtualization. Proficient with Microsoft 365 applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and Visio. Experience with architecture modeling, diagramming, documentation, source control, backlog management, and collaboration tools. Familiarity with AI-enabled business applications, enterprise automation, and the data and integration requirements needed to support approved AI solutions is desired. WORKING CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Primarily indoor work in an office or hybrid environment requiring extended periods of sitting. Frequent use of a computer, keyboard, mouse, visual display, video conferencing, and collaboration tools. Occasional travel between Aureon locations, vendor sites, customer locations, or business meetings may be required. Participation in strategy sessions, architecture reviews, workshops, implementations, and transformation initiatives may require flexible scheduling. No unusual physical requirements. Equal Opportunity Employer This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. 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