SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

Solutions ArchitectThe Enterprise Architecture & Digital Services organization is looking for experienced Solution Architects to join their dynamic organization. The Solution Architecture role is a leadership technical position that requires strong application design skills, excellent communication skills, and strong leadership. Solution Architects are responsible for conceptualizing and designing solution architectures that enable business objectives. The Solution Architect ensures that the business' functional and non-functional requirements are met by the technical solution design and ultimately implemented. The Solution Architect is responsible for ensuring that architectural standards and best-practices are practiced and followed.• Responsible for creating architecturally sound solution designs that solve business problems• Responsible for delivery of architecture/design and related deliverables, including Business, Application, Integration, Data, and Infrastructure design artifacts• Responsible for the design of the applications (including databases, programming languages, utilities, and testing approaches)• Responsible for documenting solution designs and other architecture artifacts using standard architecture artifacts and notations, including UML• Responsible for applying and ensuring that all enterprise and industry standards and best-practices are followed in solution designs on assigned projects• Responsible for developing solution designs that follow Business and Domain roadmaps, blueprints, and enterprise standards• Responsible for creating "solution snapshots" that drive estimation processes, provide insights into proposed solutions, and potential impacts on existing systems• Responsible for hands-on involvement and participation in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including without limitation, requirements gathering, analysis & design, and implementation• Responsible for working with technical and business partners to collect functional requirements on assigned projects• Responsible for establishing, prioritizing, and creating designs that meet or exceed a project's non-functional requirements, including: Performance, Availability, Scalability and Reliability, Maintainability• Responsible for stewarding a project's solution design through architecture governance processes• Responsible for ensuring that Enterprise Architecture's roadmaps, blueprints and long term strategies are realized (or considered) on assigned projects• Responsible for identifying, articulating and communicating technical impacts when technical decisions at a project or program level affect or constrain long term strategies or total cost of ownership• Responsible for managing and conducting design and post-implementation technical reviews.• Responsible for providing architecture and technical leadership on assigned projects• Responsible for establishing and maintaining the overall technical vision for assigned projects• Responsible for educating other team members on Enterprise standards and best practices• Responsible for owning the overall solution design and associated trade-off decisions throughout the life cycle of assigned projects• Responsible for assessing new technologies to determine suitability and alignment with enterprise technology• Responsible for participating in enterprise technology and functional planning processes to develop standards and best practices• Responsible for developing architecture roadmaps and blueprints for businesses and technical domains• Responsible for participating in or leading research and development opportunities to determine potential impact on the enterpriseQualifications• At least 5 years of hands-on architecture experience creating and implementing architecture solution designs• Broad and deep technical experience in multiple hardware/software computing environments and system components.• Must have strong analytical, research, and critical thinking skills• Must have strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to facilitate and work effectively on assignments• Excellent communication skills and demonstrated experience interacting with senior executives as well as those who do not have technical backgrounds• Demonstrated ability to influence a variety of roles and audiences• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks• Experience with UML, use cases, modeling, documenting architectures, and architecture design processes.• Experience with all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle• Must be self-motivated and self-directed• Must be able to handle multiple high priority demands• Must have the ability to be detail oriented, yet still be able to have clarity on the overall higher-level picture• Ability to understand and adapt to new and emerging technologies• Ability to use and document solution designs in Enterprise Architecture tools, planning IT and SPARX EA• A Bachelor's degree Computer Science or related IT field or equivalent work experience required, advanced degree preferred.Strengths in one or more of the following Disciplines are a plus:• Application Architecture – ability to design applications that are highly available and can execute in the cloud and multi-site architectures• Security Architecture – ability to design applications that meet the latest industry standards on security• Digital Architecture – Knowledge / experience in one or more of the following: web architecture and content management (Java, Fatwire), HTML5, mobile optimized web / native apps, inbound / outbound email communication, chat and cobrowse in the contact center.• Publishing/Document Management – Ability to apply industry standard Enterprise Content Management practices and patterns, such as bar coding, multi-channel, business process management, document management, retention, information lifecycle, high volume and interactive publishing, to drive lower total cost of ownership, straight thru processing, and multi-channel communication• Integration Architecture – ability to design using SOA principles into enterprise architecture design, including identifying opportunities for common services and service reuse• Infrastructure Architecture - Ability to design solutions across an array of infrastructure technologies and cloud services, and to drive infrastructure technology strategies and roadmaps with a services focus that align to business directionsTechnologies, experience with one or more of the following technologies• Strong working knowledge and experience with various integration patterns (Web Services, Messaging (MQ), Database Links, File Transfers)• Mainframe and n-Tier applications and technologies• HTML, XML, CSS, SAML• SOA principles into enterprise architecture design, including identifying opportunities for common services and service reuse• Object Oriented Analysis & Design• Workflow/BPM technologies• J2EE• .NET• ETL technologies and tools• SQL Server databases• Web Application development• Mobile Application development• Platform integration• Application Security Design