Information Security Architect

What You Will Be Doing

• Helps to provide guidance and design standards for the architecture.
• Areas in scope include: Business Architecture, IT Strategy Facilitation, Strategic Portfolio Development and the Technical Architecture Domains.
• Provide professional expertise, has broad technical, analytical, and communication skills that reflects knowledge about industry best practices and emerging trends for Meijer.
• Align Architectural Runway to SAFe Agile Development.
• Provide leadership and oversight to partner within the organization to ensure that the architecture defines and demonstrates the interoperability, scalability, and portability of applications.
• Strives to achieve optimum proficiency in all aspects of enterprise solutions and services inclusive of: business process, end user experience, applications, databases, integrations and infrastructure.
• Collaborates with architects to achieve strategic and operational objectives relating to the Enterprise roadmap.
• Ensures alignment to security architecture standards and secure coding practices.
• Provides leadership to develop and oversee production activities of architecture documentation including: architecture roadmaps, foundation principles, schematics, guidelines, enterprise standards, technology roadmaps, interoperability, communications, governance and compliance.
• Develops and facilitates the implementation of architectural policies and standards, procedures and templates for use in architectural design, service transition and sustained enterprise solution operations.
• Defines and integrates culture of ownership for architecture standards and design patterns.
• Analyzes overall effectiveness of architectural decisions to ensure best practices are incorporated to successfully meet the strategic goals of the company.
• Provides input to the annual budget reviews for technology investments to ensure alignment to strategic goals for major projects.

What You'll Bring With You

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Analysis or related discipline.
• 8 years’ experience in at least two IT disciplines in a multi-tier environment including but not limited to technical architecture, network management, application development, package delivery, middleware, database management or operations planning.
• Ability to disambiguate complex ideas and communicate in a simple and compelling way to a wide variety of audiences.
• Knowledge of business, technology, industry and market ecosystems.
• Think, behave, and act in an innovative consulting manner to drive organizational strategies.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technical configurations, technologies and processing environments.
• Analyze trends and disruptions, and assess their impact on targeted business outcomes.
• Drive the evolution of the EA teams services and operating model.
• Breadth of knowledge in technologies, platforms, and domains.
• Strong interpersonal skills including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.
• Strong analytical and technical skills.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills.
• Knowledge of the components of a technical architecture.
• Knowledge of business re-engineering principles and processes.
• Basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting.
• Understanding of the political climate of the enterprise and how to navigate the politics.
• Ability to understand the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term perspectives of situations.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical architecture requirements.
• Ability to assist in the estimate financial impact of technical architecture alternatives.
• Ability to apply multiple technical solutions to business problems.
• Quickly comprehends the functions and capabilities of new technology.