job description
* Provide technical and thought leadership in assisting client to move toward Services Oriented Architecture
* Develop, socialize, and publish architectural deliverables (As-Is & To-Be environment strategies, system landscapes, application connectivity methods and frameworks, decomposition diagrams)
* Create & Maintain landscapes/diagrams/blueprints to reduce application, integration, and operational complexity
* Determine Enterprise Patterns based upon Adaptive Enterprise principles and component engineering practices
* Create application convergence plans and implementation plans to improve reusability
* Identify and define common components for re-use
* Support the release team by reviewing global Block-point releases and advising of negative impacts based on GMAC level architectural roadmap
* Produce application architecture decomposition diagrams which depicts the major architectural layers (presentation, business rules, Data, Middleware, etc.) that depict the major components (COTS package, custom software, application interfaces)
* Author requests to build proof-of-concepts and prototypes
* Author change requests for new standards, and deviations from standards
* Support oversight architect with the constraints and tradeoffs needed to create viable solutions
* Provide cost benefit and risk management as required
Qualifications
* 10+ years working experience in system/IT architect design and plan
* Expert design, development, and deployment of applications using a variety of technologies and platforms (mainframe, client/server)
* Recent industry relevant experience using J2EE/.NET, Web Services, Portals, Integration, and SOA capabilities
* Demonstrate ability to build consensus and promote standards
* Advanced verbal and written communication skills
job description
* Create and maintain As-Is and To-Be strategies and system landscapes
* Lead and collaborate with peer architects to recommend domain-level convergence strategy & target architecture that supports Bill of IT goals
* Provide thought leadership and innovation in the planning, design, and creation of domain architecture constructs (e.g. reference architectures), and deliverables (e.g. standardized work, common initiatives)
* Provide architectural costs, benefits, and risk management (including operations, security)
* Define and develop architecture solutions
* Communicate strategic vision and detailed architecture representations
* Work with the Enterprise Data Architect to develop a domain-level Data Management Program
* Develop, socialize, and publish architectural deliverables (As-Is & To-Be environment strategies, system landscapes, application connectivity methods and frameworks, decomposition diagrams)
* Support the release team by reviewing global Block-point releases and advising of negative impacts based on the architectural roadmap
* Document standards for common data objects, and data formats
* Participate in reviews of technical/product evaluations
* Provide coaching, mentoring, and guidance to project teams (e.g. review checklists, architecture starter kit collateral, integration requirements, tradeoff analysis)
* Author change requests for new standards, and deviations from standards
* Provide cost benefit and risk management as required.
Qualifications
your profile
* Recognized expert in Enterprise Architecture development and management
* Proven track record IT management or IT consulting with experience in financial services and/or insurance industries
* Proven experience in examining and re-engineering business and IT processes, formulating policy, and developing and implementing new strategies
* Advanced verbal and written communication skills
* Excellent facilitation, negotiation, and consensus building skills
* Communicate effectively with a wide variety of people including senior management
* Knowledge of project management principles, practices, techniques, and tools
* Experience working on a geographically dispersed team
* Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills
* Expert knowledge of data integration design principles in a complex computing environment
* Demonstrated ability to build consensus and promote standards, and design principles to project teams
* Expert technology research and analysis