Enterprise Solutions Architect

Enterprise Solutions Architect

The Enterprise Solutions Architect oversees multiple dimensions of assigned applications and/or capabilities including but not limited to stability, life cycle management, version control, design and development of technology solutions, mapping of business requirements to capability oriented technical requirements, and ensuring Technology solutions to business needs are developed in accordance with the enterprise architectural roadmap, guidelines, and standards.

Primary Responsibilities

• Manages end to end from conception, through delivery, into production of solution architectures
• Partners with business and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions
• Leads the design and modeling of tactical architectures for delivery, development, and support of projects
• Designs both the physical and logical components of solution architectures that will deliver a positive business outcome
• Collaborates with other domain architects to provide a consensus based scalable and adaptable architectural solution
• Oversees technical analysis and design capabilities
• Facilitates technology design workshops for emerging technologies
• Validates designs produced by third party vendors wishing to sell solutions to the organization
• Aligns Information Technology strategy and planning with the company’s business goals and objectives
• Promotes the use of a shared infrastructure and application roadmap to reduce costs and improve how information flows
• Circulates roadmaps to align Information Technology priorities with business partner requirements and strategies
• Builds and maintains technical trusted advisor relationships with influential technical decision makers within Technology
• This position is exempt from timekeeping requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field and (5) years of solutions architecture experience
• Or a High School Diploma/GED and nine (9) years of solutions architecture experience
• Experience of N-tier architectures and complex design architectures
• Experience with technical, application, and information architecture delivery techniques and methodologies
• Experience with Agile methods

Certifications/Licensures

• Certifications in the technology domain of the enterprise

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• An understanding of, and ability to use, design patterns to steer business requirements into enterprise wide technical strategies
• Awareness and ability to document designs using internal and external notational standards (Business Process Model and Notation {BPMN}, Unified Modeling Language {UML})
• Knowledge of security design techniques
• Understanding the technology of the organization, e.g. Middleware,.NET, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Oracle, etc.
• Working knowledge of modern Operating Systems (Linux/Windows), Networking, Servers/Mainframe, Secure Coding Practices, Development Environments (Java/.