Associate Architect

About the role

Candidate must be a US citizen (due to contractual/access requirements).

Responsibilities

• Assists in providing strategic consultation to business customers in defining or designing less complex business processes, functions and organizational structures.
• Facilitates development of enterprise business solutions that combine knowledge of particular business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques.
• Participates in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.
• Assists in specifying and designing less complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or processes.
• Selects appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensures that they are applied effectively.
• Reviews others’ system design to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
• Establishes policy for selection of architecture components.
• Evaluates and undertakes impact analysis on major design options.
• Ensures that the system architecture balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements.
• Assists in using appropriate tools, including models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of architectures.
• Produces detailed component requirements, specifications and translates these into detailed solutions/designs for implementation using selected products.
• Provides advice on technical aspects of system development, integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and processes.
• Ensures that relevant technical and business strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly.
• Assists in selecting and using tools and methods to establish, clarify, and communicate the functional and non-functional requirements of system users, their characteristics, and tasks.
• Identifies the technical, organizational, and physical environment in which less complex products or systems will operate.
• Identifies, proposes, initiates, and leads improvement programs, taking responsibility for the quality and appropriateness of the work performed and the realization of measurable business benefits.
• Modifies existing process improvement approaches and/or develops new approaches to achieving improvement.
• Aids in resolving a variety of architecture and business problems and serves as a technical or business resource for less complex project initiatives.
• Communicates effectively with all levels of organization.
• Manages expectations of customers, partners and management.
• Participates in customer walkthroughs and plans; design and technical walkthroughs; and problem resolution and decision making.
• Interacts with departments across the organization as necessary, including the development and interpretation of less complex requirements for peers and other staff.
• Maintains an in-depth knowledge of specific technical aspects in area of expertise and provides advice regarding their application.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field.
• Preferred: None.

Skills

• Current skill set are reviewed every other year, new skills may be required to meet changing business needs.
• Skills include IMS, DB2, Oracle and Teradata Databases, Data Warehousing, COBAL, Visual Basic, C/C++, SAS, Java/JavaScript Framework, PEGA, CSS3, Mobile, JSON, Cognos, Hadoop, SQL, J2EE, HTML5/XML, Project Management Tools, Waterfall, Agile, Certification in application areas such as Java Developer, DB2, Cogno, PEGA, Enterprise Architect (SCEA), Project Management.

Benefits

N/A

Pay

Minimum $72,700.00, Maximum $116,600.00

Schedule

Office-based, occasional travel.