Application Architect

Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide input to the scope definition of strategic initiatives leveraging roadmaps, capability heatmaps, etc. to give visibility to impacts, dependencies, overlaps, and improvement opportunities, for on premise and cloud monitoring solutions spanning toolsets.
• Contribute to the architecture review process by creating validation checklists, reviewing architectural artifacts, and providing domain specific guidance to drive architectural alignment across the enterprise
• Define, communicate, and document the architecture patterns, standards, and technologies
• Analyze enterprise business context (e.g., trends and business strategy) and change requirements in other architecture viewpoints to derive the solution architecture 'future' state
• Apply architectural and engineering concepts to design solutions that meet operational requirements, such as scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, extensibility, flexibility, availability, and manageability
• Research, enforce, and drive the adoption of design patterns throughout the enterprise and deliver best practices for solution design and development
• Foster and maintain good relationships with colleagues to meet expected customer service levels
• Build detailed technical designs related to monitoring as a part of complex projects.
• Build and maintain 2-year technical domain road map that aligns with the technical direction of the organization and company. Collaborate with other technical architects to integrate and align all technical roadmaps. Present technical roadmaps to senior it leadership.
• Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned on a temporary or permanent basis as needed

Knowledge, skills, and abilities

• Rapidly acquires new knowledge and skills perpetually, ability to "think big”
• Ability to understand the long-term and short-term perspectives of situations
• Ability to estimate the financial impact of individual solution architecture alternatives (scenario planning)
• Ability to define multiple solution options to business problems
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies
• Knowledge of all aspects of enterprise architecture, planning, and goal setting at high and detailed levels
• Ability to implement technical strategy and design solutions to meet that strategy
• Ability to solve problems independently, quickly, and completely and to communicate them clearly to IT management and staff
• Ability to challenge conventional wisdom regarding technology refresh and hype
• Strong leadership and negotiation skills with business and technical groups
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong project management and organization skills
• Demonstrated ability to build consensus among many stakeholders
• Ability to be comfortable with ambiguity and willing to take principled bets on new technology
• Ability to establish, implement, and enforce appropriate IT standards to meet business requirements
• Established skills in system design
• Must be able to take initiative and work without direct supervision
• Must be able to work in a team environment

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related field required
• Master's degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field preferred
• TOGAF certification preferred
• At least 5 years of experience in an IT architectural or technical leadership capacity required
• At least 3 years of experience leading design and architecture of technology solutions preferred
• At least 10 years of experience working in a complex IT environment preferred * Experience operating monitoring tools (Splunk, Science Logic, Azure Log Analytics, PRTG, etc.).
• Experience with industry standards scripting language (Java, Perl, Python, Powershell, etc.)
• Experience working with key office automation tools such as Visio, PowerPoint and Word.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate both laterally and up to influence decisions and actions.