• Together with the team of Architects and Subject Matter Experts, develop and adapt architecture, solution, products and services to ensure predictable and sound systems that meet business needs 
  
• Drive the architecture process ensuring the right solutions are delivered to meet customer needs, TCO and compliance.
• Advice clients on possibilities of our solutions, and design solutions to meet business needs 
•  Participate in Customer Relationship management, building trust in the role as customer advisor 
• Capture & translate business requirements to actions & deliveries. 
• Ensure that the project decisions made are in accordance with the customers IT principles and meet security and compliance requirements. 
• The Role reports to Enterprise Architect 

Your profile 

• Higher relevant education at a university level 
• Sound technical background, detailed understanding of modern enterprise/solution architecture 
• Experience with supporting business processes with ERP and CRM system design and strong understanding of symbioses between data, integration and application platforms. 
• Experience with managing stakeholders, business and technical requirements and change management.
• Ability to design & adapt solutions to customer needs, using existing building blocks in possibly new ways 
• Ability to direct solution development across application portfolio. 
• Work with vendors and vendor market to identify (and adapt) new solutions 
• Previous experience with Salesforce, Azure, SAP, ServiceNow, DevOps will be considered a plus
• Ability to connect the dots between diverse business needs

The Application Architect works at the highest systems level to provide expert advice and counsel to users, management, and IT project teams for systems of the most complex nature. Our ideal candidate will be recognized as a technical expert within IS and the organization in systems design and analysis.

Job Description

• Designs process frameworks, sequence diagrams, and detailed component lists in the design and analysis phase. May lead proof-of-concept and prototyping activities to assess whether the proposed architecture and components meet requirements.
• Participates in reviews of component designs to ensure best usage of the proposed architecture.
• Supports the technical architecture throughout the project life cycle, including the testing and implementation phases.
• Coordinates with technical engineers across the domain and enterprise, ensuring that technology standards and processes are followed. Gathers, develops, and/or applies industry and architecture best practices.
• Accountable for the code quality of a given solution.
• Along with IT leadership, develops long-term roadmap and planning for a given set of capabilities and the technologies that support them.
• Leads root cause analysis; drives quality improvement.
• Acts as on-call escalation for issues.
• Provides guidance and coaching for junior developers.
• Sets application of team-level development standards and ensures they are followed.
• Collaborates with end-user community and executive stakeholders to understand pain points and to develop long-terms plans to fill those gaps.
• Researches new technologies and evaluates how to apply them.
• Monitors technical debt and creates long-term plan for remediation.
• hybrid cloud platforms like Azure, AWS and Google Cloud;
• microservices architecture and RESTful (API) services;
• SQL and NoSQL database management.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• 5+ years’ experience in Object-Oriented Design (OOD), Unified Modeling Language (UML), stateless distributed architectures, and designing for scalability and performance.
• 2+ years in a professional, senior technical role, such as technical lead, architect, or other hands-on leadership role.
• 5+ years’ experience in software development utilizing Java, C#, or similar language.
• 3+ years’ experience writing SQL queries, stored procedures, and performance tuning within relational databases.
• Experience with systems design in complex computing environments.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from senior business and Information Services management and staff, customers, and clients.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to develop, implement, and support systems applications in large-scale projects in client server environments using object-oriented software.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• 2+ years’ experience in IT architecture.
• Experience with web technologies: AngularJS, HTML, CSS.
• Experience in designing and developing multi-tier distributed systems.