Sr Solution Architect
The Application Architect is a member of the Enterprise Solutions and Applications team and is primarily responsible for overseeing design, implementation, governance, and quality for various initiatives. While broad technical knowledge is required for this position, core technology expertise in .NET platform is the focus. The individual will be assigned to various projects and will need to architect and govern a potentially broad technology stack (from Operating System to Middleware to Development Tooling to Application) while providing design / solution support for complex requirements, always keeping the enterprise architecture roadmap in mind. This individual is also responsible for establishing future strategy and roadmap for various technologies and technical patterns.
Position Responsibilities:
· Design and lead the implementation of solutions across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities and business requirements.
· Work closely with functional and technical teams to drive technical design decisions; able to identify gaps in vendor solutions
· Monitor the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.
· Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
· Analyze the business-IT environment (run, grow and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement (systems of record, differentiation and innovation).
· Define the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to align any solution decisions with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
· Design and direct the governance activities associated with assurance and compliance from an architecture standpoint.
· Ensure enterprise architecture guidelines are followed and present any new guidelines to Architecture Review Board (ARB)
· Develop and provide input into the roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from future to current state (as defined by the enterprise architecture).
Experience/Skills:
· Strong understanding of designing secure cloud-based applications and services including authentication, authorization, role-based access etc.
· Understanding of Azure platform services, understanding of their capabilities and limitations and being able to architect and deliver solutions leveraging various platform services is highly desired.
· ESB, Streaming / Messaging, and API Management platforms experience highly desired.
· Strong hands-on experience with DevOps tooling (such as Azure DevOps).
· Solid programming skills using JAVA, J2EE, Tomcat, JavaScript, Spring Boot, JMS, SOAP / REST Web Services, XML, JSON, WCF, Angular / MVC is highly desired.
· Experience with database access protocols such as ODBC, JDBC, Azure SQL, Databricks
· Strong understanding of container concepts, such as Docker and / or Kubernetes, is desired.
· Understand the various disciplines of application architecture, including development, integration, security, reporting.
· Service Now, Adobe architecture experience his highly desirable
Ability to develop prototypes to test design decisions is required.
Information Security Responsibilities
• Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices, including acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, and password security protocols
• Identify, assess, and report security risks, focusing on how these risks impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets
• Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
• Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information
The Application Architect is a member of the Enterprise Solutions and Applications team and is primarily responsible for overseeing design, implementation, governance, and quality for various initiatives. While broad technical knowledge is required for this position, core technology expertise in .NET platform is the focus. The individual will be assigned to various projects and will need to architect and govern a potentially broad technology stack (from Operating System to Middleware to Development Tooling to Application) while providing design / solution support for complex requirements, always keeping the enterprise architecture roadmap in mind. This individual is also responsible for establishing future strategy and roadmap for various technologies and technical patterns.
Position Responsibilities:
· Design and lead the implementation of solutions across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities and business requirements.
· Work closely with functional and technical teams to drive technical design decisions; able to identify gaps in vendor solutions
· Monitor the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.
· Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
· Analyze the business-IT environment (run, grow and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement (systems of record, differentiation and innovation).
· Define the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to align any solution decisions with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
· Design and direct the governance activities associated with assurance and compliance from an architecture standpoint.
· Ensure enterprise architecture guidelines are followed and present any new guidelines to Architecture Review Board (ARB)
· Develop and provide input into the roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from future to current state (as defined by the enterprise architecture).
Experience/Skills:
· Strong understanding of designing secure cloud-based applications and services including authentication, authorization, role-based access etc.
· Understanding of Azure platform services, understanding of their capabilities and limitations and being able to architect and deliver solutions leveraging various platform services is highly desired.
· ESB, Streaming / Messaging, and API Management platforms experience highly desired.
· Strong hands-on experience with DevOps tooling (such as Azure DevOps).
· Solid programming skills using JAVA, J2EE, Tomcat, JavaScript, Spring Boot, JMS, SOAP / REST Web Services, XML, JSON, WCF, Angular / MVC is highly desired.
· Experience with database access protocols such as ODBC, JDBC, Azure SQL, Databricks
· Strong understanding of container concepts, such as Docker and / or Kubernetes, is desired.
· Understand the various disciplines of application architecture, including development, integration, security, reporting.
· Service Now, Adobe architecture experience his highly desirable
Ability to develop prototypes to test design decisions is required.
Information Security Responsibilities
• Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices, including acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, and password security protocols
• Identify, assess, and report security risks, focusing on how these risks impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets
• Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
• Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information
