Job Description

Job Description:

Primary Accountabilities
Solution Architecture Development (40%)

Assesses proposed business ideas and determines architectural significance.
Determines primary dependent systems and infrastructure.
Determines high level system integrations needed to implement the proposed business idea.
Develops holistic candidate solution architectures, ensuring that all architectural aspects of the system, including data, application, infrastructure, and security are addressed.
Researches and makes recommendations on technology build vs. buy decisions.
Develops rough cost estimates (RCEs) for candidate solution architectures.

Solution Architecture Standards and Governance ( (20%)

Identifies, documents, and communicates ESA standards, patterns, and best practices.
Assesses solution implementations to ensure alignment with published ESA visions and strategies.
Recommends changes to enterprise architecture and enterprise solution architecture standards and policies.

Solution Architecture Consulting (20%)

Consults with application architects and reviews individual architected solutions.
Provides advice and support to project teams.
Participates in analysis of business and technology trends.
Participates in the development of enterprise architecture strategies and roadmaps.
Leads or participates in architecture and design reviews.

Solution Architecture Modeling (20%)

Develops and maintains architecture models draw.io and Confluence

Specialized Knowledge and Skills Requirements

Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service
Demonstrated experience communicating and influencing at all levels of the organization from technical IT staff to business executives.
Demonstrated experience negotiating complex or contentious issues, reaching consensus, and working through people to achieve goals.
Demonstrated experience working at a solution architecture level designing and estimating large and/or complex IT solutions.
Demonstrated experience working across a broad range of information technology disciplines, including application, data, infrastructure, and security domains, with expertise in one or more domains.
Demonstrated experiencing developing architectural models to communicate complex subjects in a clear and informative way to varying audiences.
Solid knowledge and understanding of enterprise architecture styles, including Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), web and mobile architectures, client/server architecture, business intelligence architectures, messaging and integration architectures, and legacy/mainframe architecture.
Solid knowledge and understanding of business capabilities and processes as they relate to enterprise solution architecture.
Solid knowledge and understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC).
Solid knowledge and understanding of solution architecture methods, artifacts, and tools.