Enterprise/Solution Architect

With a company culture rooted in collaboration, expertise and innovation, we aim to promote progress and inspire our clients, employees, investors and communities to achieve their greatest potential. Our work is the catalyst that helps others achieve their goals. In short, We Enable Possibility℠.

• Own the application and data technical domains for Arch and drive the organizations assets from the current state to target state architecture.
• Maintain subject matter expertise in these domains both business and technical.
• Collaborate with members of IT to review and assess the architecture of products, systems, or applications for compliance to existing standards, guidelines, or best practices.
• Collaborate with other Enterprise Architects, Domain Owners and APMs (Agile Program Managers) to ensure that any recommendations or approaches will align well from an application, infrastructure, and data perspective.
• Perform in depth technical analysis, research proof of concepts and evaluations as required to validate that the recommendations enterprise architecture makes are sound and will not introduce risk into IT Execution.
• Maintain an understanding of long-term company strategy and ensure that designs will enable the company to meet the changing industry/competitive demands.
• Review systems, applications, and products and provide recommendations for improvements that will enhance the alignment to standards, best practices, or guidelines.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and other members of the wider Arch IT team to define architecture standards that drive business capabilities and optimization to create efficiency, quality and agility.
• Prepare presentations, documents, diagrams, models, and other artifacts as required to communicate analysis, recommendations, or designs.
• Communicate with stakeholders at varying levels within the organization to drive our use of technology forward.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the CTO and IT Leadership team.
• Prepare materials to support the IT Governance Committee (monthly) and IT Steering Committee (as required).
• Analyze collected data to identify what contributed to performance positively or negatively to foster a culture of continuous improvement and to drive to outcomes.
• Coordinate projects and activities to ensure they are completed on time with limited supervision from management.
• Drive enterprise architecture governance and activities across multiple business units in a federated enterprise architecture model.

Experience

• 15+ years of related experience in software development, systems design and delivery.
• Prior experience and accountability for system or applications architectures at the enterprise level.
• Ability to span high level and low-level analysis and design across different technologies for application and technology domains.
• Familiarity with multiple technologies in the application and finance domains to drive modernization and optimization of systems.
• Ability to drive decisions in the face of incomplete data and be able to articulate complex concepts to diverse stakeholders. 
• Broad enterprise technology and application architecture experience with ability to quickly analyze & solution new technologies and applications.
• Ability to be a fast learner and contribute quickly. 
• Familiarity with a broad range of systems and application technologies spanning financial systems, BPM, Low code/No Code, ERP, APIM, Event hubs and application integration technologies.
• Ability to map complex business processes and define target state architecture with the appropriate use of application technologies, automation and integrations.

Education

• Degree in information technology or related field.

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