30 Nov
Lead Digital Architect
Vacancy expired!
- Advises software developers and systems engineers.
- Serves as a resource with strong knowledge of the Architectural Body of Knowledge (frameworks, building blocks, standards, principles, best practices, models, design patterns, strategies, roadmaps and target states).
- Designs and develops IT architecture solutions (integrated processes, applications, data and technology) to address business needs in alignment with the product leadership and corporate strategy.
- Champions change management through mentoring and influence.
- Collaborates in planning initiatives in application development, systems architectures, future roadmaps, operations and strategic planning.
- Facilitates communication between delivery teams and other functional areas such as Engineering and Information Security.
- Ensures alignment of all solutions delivered by teams to Enterprise Architecture body of knowledge (standards, principles, best practices, models, design patterns, roadmaps, and target states).
- Identifies potential architectural risks in solutions delivered by teams and informs the appropriate decision makers.
- Assesses the compatibility and integration of proposed systems/applications to ensure an integrated architecture across interdependent technologies and across the Jackson environment.
- Ensures that architecture solutions are efficient, maintainable, scalable, stable, highly available, portable, secure, agile and implemented correctly.
- Accountable for architectural reviews on solutions delivered by their assigned teams.
- Utilizes architecture deliverable templates, populating solution or enterprise architecture documents for projects and systems, clearly articulating goals, constraints, and rationale for all architecturally significant decisions.
- Promotes reuse and application of the model architecture to the system architecture.
- Contributes to and enforces coding standards.
- Assists in evaluation and recommendation of new technologies.
- Creates and maintains high level technical documentation to ensure efficient planning and execution.
- Facilitates updates, communication, and demonstrations of technical standards through showcases.
- Leads moderate planning initiatives in application development, systems architectures, future roadmaps, operations and strategic planning.
- Maintains general knowledge of multiple major systems in their assigned areas.
- Seeks and participates in development opportunities and maintains knowledge in field of expertise.
- Possesses and leverages an expert knowledge of enterprise transformation concepts, practices, methods, principles and an understanding of evolving industry trends, practices and standards.
- Evaluates and recommends new technologies of moderate impact.
- Manages expectations and requirements of architecture project stakeholders.
- Mentors less experienced team members.
- Presents information to management, clients and peers.
- Performs other special projects or duties as assigned.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to develop appropriately complex technical and business solutions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, specifically to translate technical complexity to non-technical audiences.
- Basic presentation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment to achieve desired results.
- Demonstrated ability to convert business requirements to appropriate system designs with flexibility and extensibility.
- Demonstrated ability to successfully lead others through solution delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to successfully manage assignments on multiple teams, in a fast-changing technical environment.
- Demonstrated experience applying methodologies to designs and implementing the designs in solution delivery.
- Demonstrated record of successful, complex cross-system implementations.
- Demonstrated ability to apply design patterns to implement architecture.
- Excellent ability to influence and negotiate.
- Expert collaboration skills.
- Mastery of development methodologies, tools, and software engineering.
- Mastery of at least two of the following languages: JAVA, COBOL, C, Perl, SQL, etc.
- Strong knowledge of security concepts, secure protocols, and current cryptographic ciphers and modes
- Knowledge of at least two of the following: web services, IT infrastructure, systems and/or commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) systems.
- Strong knowledge of business architecture skills: business case building, scenario & process modeling, strategic planning, visioning and business metrics.
- Successful completion of an analytical aptitude exam.
- Successful creation and implementation of n-tier architecture solutions.
- Excellent knowledge of at least multiple solution architecture viewpoints (application design, infrastructure design, data design, integration design).
- Excellent knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks, specifically TOGAF.
- Strong knowledge of some architecture tools and processes (reference architecture maintenance, standards maintenance, technology portfolio rationalization, RFI/RFP support, project architecture support).
- Strong business architecture skills: business case building, scenario & process modeling, strategic planning, visioning, and business metrics.
- Ability to work extended hours as needed.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and/or education.
- 8+ years of relevant experience required.
- Financial services experience and professional insurance designations are preferred.
- Experience in software design and implementation for moderate systems preferred.
Vacancy expired!