IT Architect
Johnson Financial Group · Wisconsin, United States · Yesterday
On-siteInformation TechnologyFull-time
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.