Description
Essential Job Functions:
The Project Architect will primarily focus on leading efforts on projects from the detailed technical design perspective. This will include leading, detailed technical discussions and working with member organizations as well as guiding the evaluation and selection of products and solutions. In this role the architect will work closely with the leadership and staff of the Enterprise Architecture Office, external consultants, the IT community, and the participating businesses to develop architecture solutions for projects. The Architect will document high-level cost estimates, benefits and risks, implementation sequencing, document the technical design efforts, and facilitate technical change management during implementation. The architect will manage technology selection process, which includes build versus buy decisions.
Essential Job Functions:
Work collaboratively with appropriate teams and business units to translate business requirements into conceptual and physical designs.
Produce proper documentation for each solution including and not limited to the architectural infrastructure planning document (AIP) and the software architecture document (SAD).
Identify key technology overlaps and gaps and formulate strategies to optimize technology spend.
Ensure project complies with Enterprise Architecture policy and standards.
Provide governance reporting and metrics for compliance tracking.
Competencies/Skills:
Some of the Competencies/Skills required to successfully perform this position are:
Building Trust Interacting with others in a way that gives them confidence in ones intentions and those of the organization.
Communication Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.
Customer Focus Making customers and their needs a primary focus of ones actions; developing and sustaining productive customer relationships.
Inclusion Appreciating and leveraging the capabilities, insights and ideas of all individuals. Working effectively with individuals of diverse background, style, ability, and motivation for a direct effect on business results.
Safety Awareness Identifying and correcting conditions that affect employee safety; upholding safety and security standards.
Collaboration - Working effectively and cooperatively with others; establishing and maintaining good working relationships.
Gaining Commitment - Using interpersonal styles to gain acceptance of ideas; modifying one's behavior to accommodate issues and individuals involved.
Leading through Vision & Values - Keeping the organization's vision and values at the forefront of associate decision making and action.
Results Oriented - Setting high goals for personal and group accomplishment; using measurement methods to monitor progress toward goal attainment; tenaciously working to meet or exceed those goals while deriving satisfaction from the process of goal achievement and continuous improvement.
Minimum Position Qualifications:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related equivalent work experience in an Information Systems position.
5 or more years of professional experience as a domain architect in one or more domains (application, data, or infrastructure architecture).
5 or more years experience in delivering large-scale technical solutions using a formal, structured, process oriented systems development life cycle and project management environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills to effectively communicate information to business partners and to all levels within the organization.
Excellent interpersonal skills. Must be a team player and team builder
Exposure to application and/or infrastructure technologies commonly leveraged to support large-scale, multi-platform enterprise environments and distributed systems across diverse domestic geographies.
Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
Effective facilitator of technical decisions. Comfortable with working through ambiguous initiatives to develop effective solutions.
Effective mentor and coach related to system component interdependence
Effective time management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects with competing priorities.
Knowledge of multiple architecture styles and their implications
Desired Previous Job Experience:
Portal architecture and design to include the following:
IBM Webshpere Portal, XML Access Scripts, Shell Scripting, Maven, JSR-268 Portlet Spec
Java: Java, J2EE, Eclipse or STS, Ant, Maven, JUnit, Web Service SOAP
Front End: TML, JSP, JavaScript, XML, AJAX, CSS
Working knowledge of UML, Datamodelling, and architecture repositories a plus.
If experienced in an application domain then an architectural understanding of: standards-based SOA/Web services with regard to application interfaces, open messaging platforms/EAI/MQ, database platforms, web technologies such as HTML, .NET, Java/J2EE, XML, XSL, Web 2.0 and industry standards and trends
If experienced in data domain, architectural understanding of data warehousing strategies and construction, ETL/Data integration processes, OLAP, OLTP, high availability database design, Business Intelligence applications, EDI and metadata standards, Datamodelling methodologies, and geographic/export control data management techniques.
If experienced in an infrastructure domain, architectural understanding of network topology, files systems, operating systems and hardware storage management, security practices, identity management, system recovery/backup tools and procedures, hardware virtualization, system monitoring and control processes and industry standards and trends.
Understanding of Enterprise Architecture processes for technology portfolio management and project governance, including technology selections and peer review.