What are the responsibilities and job description for the Solution Architect – Data Management position at GEHA, Inc.?
Summary
Create and provide solutions regarding data storage and database administration. Conduct evaluations of technology standards, tools, products, and solutions, make rational design decisions from business and technical perspectives and communicate recommendations. Define guidelines and recommendations based on leading industry practices tailored to GEHA’s data needs and infrastructure. Maintain responsibility for defining the technical strategy, work closely with all stakeholders to vet technology decisions that support product capabilities now and for the future, and guide it successfully through its execution.
Duties
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of GEHA strategic business plans.
- Provide architectural consulting expertise, direction and assistance to systems analysts, IT cloud engineers and other system engineers.
- Document and develop in-depth knowledge of GEHA existing architecture / infrastructure and technology portfolio.
- Develop, document, communicate and enforce database technology standard policies.
- Conduct research on emerging database and cloud technologies in support of organizational data requirements and development efforts.
- Make recommendations about database and data storage technology and process adoption.
- Evaluates existing applications and systems. Recommends improvements or modifications.
- Acts as technical mentor for members of the IT team, providing input and feedback to others. Review Business Requirements Documentation, Technical Design Documentation and participate in peer review cycles with technical & non-technical counterparts.
- Assign tasks to the appropriate technical resource within the team; follow up on assigned tasks to ensure adherence to proposal internal and delivery milestones.
- Other duties as assigned.
