Carvechi Technology is hiring for a Solutions Architect based in Deerfield Beach, FL
Architecture Responsibilities
● Responsible for the architectural design and compliance of solutions
● Leverage the current technology portfolio, enterprise architectural standards and established patterns to create solution designs that deliver the required business capabilities.
● Collaborate with other architects, developers and engineers to create synergies and drive technology reuse within and across projects.
● Approval of detailed technical designs and vendor technical designs to
○ Ensure the adherence to enterprise standards
○ Reduce complexity
○ Increase reusability
● Drives down costs and complexity by using enterprise standards
● Designs solutions that meet the best interest of multiple stakeholders including those of the project and enterprise level
● Designs solutions that leverage enterprise tools and have reusable components and services
● Works with business users to reduce technical complexity introduced by business requirements
● Ensures designs meet business requirements
● Provide recommendations that yield efficiencies in technology support costs and improve performance while meeting customer requirements.
● Provide leadership and mentoring to less experienced associates.
● Translate highly technical problems in a manner that can be understood in business terms to a variety of audiences including project managers and business executives.
● Present recommendations and solutions clearly and concisely and is able to focus on key points to portray the intended message or purpose.
Technology Leadership Responsibilities:
● Acts as the lead Technology Services representative in the delivery of technology solutions
● Provides overall technical leadership and directs teams in the delivery of technology solutions.
● Collaborates with Project Managers, Portfolio Managers and technical stakeholders to deliver on the following responsibilities for end-to-end technical delivery:
○ Ensures the realization of the solution architecture, making sure it is operable & cost-effective
○ Leads and drives progress on all technical delivery aspects
○ Helps identify all required roles and technology resources
○ Ensures the assembly of the required technical teams
○ Leads identification of technical tasks and milestones
○ Ensures technical requirements are delivered with quality and completeness
○ Drives creation of financial estimates for all phases including TCO
○ Partners with PM to ensures a successful release to production including transition activities
● Assesses risks, anticipates bottlenecks, provide escalation management, and collaborates to drive toward mutually beneficial outcomes
● Drives to effectively resolve and provide awareness for technical issues and risks
● Manages the partner relationship to ensure delivery of technical work done by 3rd party partners or vendors.
● Provides feedback on performance of internal technical team members to their leaders
REQUIREMENTS:
● Must possess broad understanding of technology and business operations and is able to provide holistic solutions to business problems or requirements.
● Extensive experience and knowledge of software design, application integration and data integration.
● Extensive experience in designing and implementing canonical data models, SOA, messaging and transformation patterns.
● Understands the complexities of networks, database, systems, security practices and other infrastructure components in an IT environment.
● Understands the complexities of DevOps and its best practices as it relates to software and integration design
● Understands IT security and governance best practices as it relates to software and infrastructure design.
● Understands security methods such as ADFS, SAML or OAuth.
● Current knowledge of industry best practices for software architecture.
● Strong leadership, confidence, verbal and influencing skills.
● Strong oral communication, written and presentation skills. Demonstrate the ability to present complex technical information, in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences, in large and small groups.
● Strong organization, facilitation, analytical and deductive reasoning skills. Capable of thinking through problems in a systematic and logical manner in order to produce solutions.
● Strong customer service orientation.
● Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
● High level of energy, drive, and creativity to solve complex business problems and overcome complex challenges.
● Proven analysis skills and ability to conduct research for data and business logic issues as required.
● Proven innovative thought process and problem solving abilities.
● Knowledge of ITIL processes and standards is a plus.
● Experience in mobile development and/or design is a plus.
● Experience in cloud architecture is a strong plus.
● Knowledge or certification in TOGAF is a strong plus.