Application Architect - Manager

Summary

The Application Architect is responsible for the development and ownership of architectural solutions, leveraging standards, patterns, and framework, and maintaining an application's data architecture that align to Enterprise Architecture's Standards and Patterns as well as the business strategy and goals for the company. This role provides technical guidance on custom application and data solution implementations within the business technology team. The Application Architect collaborates with Project teams, Enterprise Architecture, Product Managers, and Business Stakeholders to determine solutions based on business requirements and consults on their implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Evaluate and analyze business needs and current technical assets/data to develop and implement solutions and strategy for applications.
• Perform application technology planning and drive technical product roadmaps with the product manager, suggesting improvements to increase efficiency, scalability, and maximize product value.
• Interact and communicate effectively with business sponsors, technology management, executives, end users, and subject matter experts.
• Utilize and evangelize enterprise architecture strategies, including reference architectures and standards, use of application patterns, and assisting development teams with best practices for application design.
• Create and maintain technical application architecture depicting the Business and IT landscape in its current, transitional, and future state for a portfolio of applications.
• Utilize enterprise application policies and standards for design, integration, scalability, navigation, maintainability, and reuse of capabilities in designs of solutions.
• Provide technical consultation for technology and software solutions based on business needs; oversee architectural aspects of business solution development and deployment.
• Work with the product team on a portfolio of applications and solutions to design, perform code reviews, roadmap solutions to keep with current technology and assist support on escalation of issues

Education / Professional Experience/ Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science or Information Systems (or equivalent work experience).
• 8+ years of experience in application technology—primarily within application architecture and development, including experience with TOGAF and Zachman frameworks, SOA, integration patterns, solution design, target architecture, cloud platforms, technology maturity models, Java, .NET, Python, microservices, and governance.
• Extensive experience working with application teams, vendors, or service providers; considerable experience with SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) methodologies and design/architecture aspects of project delivery.
• Experience with Microsoft technologies (Azure PaaS DBs, Event Grid, Kubernetes containers, Azure Insight, Azure Data Factory, Power Platform), Amazon technologies (Lambda, S3, EKS, EC2), BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) tooling, and other relevant industry leaders.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely with others, including senior leadership, in and outside of the organization, in a credible, engaging, and confident manner. Adapt communication style and method as necessary.
• Ability to summarize and translate complex, technical information into straightforward language for various technical and non-technical audiences.
• Critical and creative thinking skills; ability to use a variety of tools and processes to conduct research and analyses, recognize solutions, and make timely decisions.
• Pursue professional and technical expertise; participate in developmental opportunities to ensure continual growth.
• Take initiative, proactively look for solutions, and help others to think ahead. Be innovative and share ideas with Enterprise Architecture for continuous improvement.
• Be flexible and work effectively across various situations to achieve goals. Prioritize different work streams and balance short-term versus long-term objectives.
• Value individual differences, treat everyone with respect, and appreciate diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
• Align actions with words, maintain a positive attitude, and respond productively to conflict.
• Hold yourself and others accountable for accomplishing high-quality results within timelines and appropriate resources.

Desirable Characteristics

• Experience with professional services firms.
• Experience working within an IT organization with a mix of managed IT services and internal services.
• Experience with IT software capabilities such as CRMs, e-signatures, rules engines, workflow engines, reporting, SSO, OCR, financial systems, software sales tooling, and document assembly