IT Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Define and govern enterprise and solution architecture, including architectural principles, standards, guardrails, and ongoing governance.
• Lead technology evaluation, selection, and evolution, and contribute significantly to enterprise technology strategy.
• Develop and maintain current state and future state architectures, capability roadmaps, and technology lifecycle plans aligned to business strategy.
• Identify major system interfaces, business capability needs, architectural gaps, and opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Leverage data and process analysis and modeling to inform architectural decisions and solution design.
• Produce conceptual, logical, and physical solution designs, including clear transition paths from the current state.
• Partner with business and technical stakeholders to translate business needs into architecturally sound solutions using agile practices.
• Collaborate with project managers, business representatives, IT teams, and third party vendors to ensure architectural alignment, influence execution, and validate deliverables against design specifications.

Job Requirements

• Self-starter with the ability to work independently and collaboratively in team-based environments.
• Excellent verbal, written, technical, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to translate high-level business concepts into clear, actionable technology solutions.
• Strong consultative skills to gain knowledge of business unit functions, applications, and terminology; able to work effectively with clients, IT management, and technical staff.
• Technical expertise across business, data, application, and general technology domains, including Microsoft, infrastructure (servers, firewalls), security, SaaS, software engineering, and data structures.
• Demonstrated strength in both process and data analysis as well as analytical tools, with strong problem-solving capabilities.
• Disciplined in modeling, documentation maintenance, and adherence to standards, principles, methodologies, and emerging trends.
• Ability to mentor, educate, and transfer knowledge to business and technical partners on architecture and technology practices.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple tasks and projects, meet deadlines, and maintain high quality using sound project planning and management skills.