IT Solutions Architect II

Responsibilities

• Understand business needs and objectives and determine how IT can support those needs leveraging software, hardware, or infrastructure.
• Coincide with stakeholders and make sure that each party's needs are considered and factored into the project's scope.
• Analyze existing systems and recommend improvements as needed to support Business and IT strategic initiatives and direction.
• Evaluate and select suitable tools and frameworks to support Business and IT strategic initiatives and direction.
• Provide estimates of technical level of effort, assist with total cost of ownership and project goals, objectives, and outcomes.
• Develop proof-of-concept projects to validate the proposed solutions.
• Review and validate solutions designs from other team members.
• Oversee all aspects of the design, implementation and integration of solutions.
• Ensure technological scalability and compliance with security standards.
• Maintain process monitoring after stakeholders and IT Leadership have approved a project and keep IT Leadership Team updated and informed on the progress.
• Create technical documentation and architectural diagrams.
• Assists in designing and documenting a 3-5 year strategic roadmap for business verticals to achieve long-term goals.
• Leads all aspects of development and maintenance of data pipelines using Boar’s Head streaming technologies (Kafka, Flink, and Clickhouse).
• Oversees organizational Data Quality (i.e. how well data sets meet criteria for accuracy, completeness, and timeliness).
• Ensures proper monitoring of data across various processes and pipelines within the organization and assists in fixing data when required.
• Assists IT Leadership in conducting decision support analysis and identifying potential technical solutions.
• Collaborates with Technical Delivery Managers, Infrastructure Team, Development and QA teams along with cross-functional business teams to develop state-of-the-art solutions to solve business challenges and requirements.
• Identifies and documents data needs, data analytics objectives, “As Is” and “To Be” operational reporting issues.
• In scenarios where a tool will be built involving Integrations with existing or new Enterprise Applications, collaborate with Project Management, Infrastructure leads, and Technical Delivery Managers to define resource requirements for implementation and future scalability of IT solutions.
• Leads Gap-Fit Analysis to evaluate states, identify gaps, and provide recommendations for achieving the desired future state.
• Oversees efforts in identifying and vetting technology partners and provides expertise in contract reviews and negotiations.
• Reengineers core business processes for standardization and optimal effectiveness while fostering an understanding of software functions, user interactions, limitations, usage scenarios, error handling, and expected success measures (targets, metrics for continuous improvement).
• Outlines the current state and designs future state process diagrams using Visio or other advanced modeling tools, and provides technical process documentation and data flows, including system/application dependencies across auxiliary systems.
• Other duties and responsibilities may be added at the manager’s discretion.

Technical Requirements

• Provides expertise and guidance to the definition of technical requirements for assigned projects and approves level of effort estimates.
• Aids the Project Manager with schedules, resources, and scope; defines change requests for missed technical requirements and/or scope change or other constraints (schedule, resources, and scope/quality).
• Experience with Atlassian project management tools (JIRA, Confluence) is required.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in a tech-related field such as computer science or software engineering or a related field.
• At least 6 years’ experience in a role equivalent to Solutions Architect or Data Engineer.
• Familiarity with data streaming (Kafka, Flink or equivalent, Clickhouse or equivalent), wrangling, modeling, and analytics.
• Experience in data quality, data observability, data governance, data integrity, data analytics and validation.
• Conceptual understanding in technical topology, overarching technical footprints.
• Basic understanding of Cyber Security concepts and Oracle EBS.
• Tableau or similar analytics tool knowledge is beneficial.
• Microsoft Proficiency: Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Visio, and SmartDraw is advantageous.

Soft Skills

• Demonstrates ability to adjust to various situations and environments, and effectively convey and receive information.
• Demonstrates ability to analyze and evaluate issues to form sound judgments, and guide, inspire, and organize individuals towards a common goal.
• Demonstrates the ability to identify, analyze, and find solutions to problems, maintain a professional demeanor and ethics, work collaboratively with others, and effectively manage one’s time and priorities.