Job Title: Senior Architect 2
NFP Rate: 91.33
Will close to submissions: Friday 9/20/2019 at 10:00am EST
Interviews: Skype
Job Description:
The Department of Developmental Disabilities is re-aligning the technical architecture for continuous deployment and cloud based services. This effort is to rebuild the current infrastructure starting with the networking and supporting software and migrating applications to the new Architecture. The Architect will assist in leveraging Business Capability Modelling artifacts and facilitate Business and IT Strategic planning in collaboration with application support Managers and Senior Leadership. Architectural guidance will be defined and utilized for the new environment and new projects to technical and application standards are applied. In addition this individual will conduct research, technology evaluation and tool comparison and operationalize modern technology and application standards.
Job Overview: Roles and Responsibilities
- Facilitate and drive Business and IT Strategic Planning discussions with Senior Leadership, Business Managers and subject matter experts ensuring alignment with organization’s goals and objectives.
- Partner with IT staff and technology experts to create IT Strategy, establish technology standards and guidelines.
- Partner with business and technology experts to understand business requirements, analyze market trends, conduct technology evaluation and comparison analysis and provide recommendations to senior leadership
- Maintain a holistic view of the organization’s strategy, processes, information and technology assets.
- Skills and experience in architecting standards and technology configurations supporting Devops, systems monitoring and overall change management.
- Skills and experience in Robotic Process Automation, Cloud services, Microsoft Windows Azure, Salesforce and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enable digital business transformation and provide guidance for modernization efforts.
- Technical writing leveraging Word, Powerpoint, Visio, and similar tools
Scope of Activities:
- Provide strategic consultation to business and IT management and aligning technology with strategies as well as in researching, internally marketing and enabling the use of standard technologies based on customer requirements.
- Create IT Strategies and guidelines by collaborating with subject matter experts across different IT teams
- Provide architectural input and technical consultation services to implement the strategies and guidelines in projects
- Participate in business opportunity identification and business innovation portfolio development by conducting research, leveraging emerging technologies and adhering to market trends.
- Participate in enterprise architecture development, including business architecture, information architecture, application portfolio and technical architecture and create models to drive informed business and IT decisions.
- Assess near-term needs, using structured interview processes, to establish business priorities; consult with technical subject matter experts and develop alternative technical solutions; advise on options, risks, costs vs. benefits, and impact on other business processes and system priorities.
- Conduct informal learning sessions for the organization on developed strategies and cutting-edge technologies
- Collaborate with other IT functional areas to remain apprised of project status, and inform LOB customer management of progress; conversely, keep IT's technology and service managers aware of key LOB customer issues, identifying and resolving potential problems and conflicts.
- Facilitate development of cross-LOB (enterprise) solutions that combine knowledge of business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques.
Skills and Credentials:
- Experience developing strategic technology plans and roadmaps, including business capability planning
- Ability to present and communicate both business and technical concepts
- Experience leading efforts to create technology solutions and architectures impacting critical areas of the business
- Strong leadership and negotiation skills with business and technical groups
- Ability to establish and maintain a high-level of customer trust and confidence.
- Strong analytical and conceptual skills; ability to create original concepts and theories for a variety of projects.
- Ability to think critically and solve problems
- Demonstrated technology skills across multiple IT domains (e.g. application, security, infrastructure)
- Strong consultative skills at a cross-functional level
Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information systems or related discipline, or equivalent and extensive related project experience; Master’s degree preferred.
- TOGAF Certification or similar framework preferred.
- Seven years of Information Technology experience with a minimum of three in Enterprise Architecture role.
- Experience with process redesign methods (such as business process re-engineering, Six Sigma or total quality management) and tools (such as Abacus, System Architect or Mega).
- Minimum of five years of hands-on design and implementation experience in IT, with knowledge in a minimum of two of the following technical disciplines:
- Application development
- Mobile design
- Network design
- Middleware
- Servers and storage
- Database management
- Operations
- Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
- Solution Architecture Experience using Kony Mobile Fabric (Mobile & PWA), Automation Anywhere(RPA), Microsoft LUIS (NLP), Salesforce (Force.com) is preferred
- Enterprise Architecture experience using ABACUS EA tool is preferred
