Principal IT Solutions Architect

Job Title - Principal IT Solutions Architect

Job Location - Hybrid-Jacksonville FL 32202

Job Duration - 6 Months Contract

Job Description:

The Principal IT Solutions Architect provide support for architecture discipline as defined by departmental requirements. Provide overall direction, guidance, definition and facilitation for the development of architecture required to meet business strategies and goals. Identify, support, and analyze the enterprise s business drivers, IT strategies, and current IT environment and recommend solutions to improve, develop, and align IT solutions to enable the business. Lead, consult or oversee multiple highly complex projects/programs/domains that have significant impacts and require in-depth technical knowledge across multiple specific architecture disciplines such as technology, solution, business or information/data.

Essential Functions/Duties:

• Lead and analyze the information to evaluate the effectiveness of controls, determine the accuracy of reports, and monitor the efficiency and security of operations.
• Develop, review, and communicate domain-wide policies, standards, guidelines and procedures. Promote the IT Architecture process, outcomes and results.
• Participate in the IT Architecture Governance process. Lead and facilitate the domain s architecture governance process based on governance structure. Manage exceptions to architectural standards at a domain level. Review and approve recommendations to architectural standards at a domain level.
• Analyze the current architecture to identify weaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements.
• Ensure compatibility with existing solutions, infrastructure, services, and strategic requirements. Guide the design of enterprise-wide initiatives to integrate systems.
• Provide strategic consultation to business and IT teams/leaders. Consult on application or infrastructure development projects to fit systems or infrastructure to the technical architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify the technical/solution architecture to accommodate project needs. Keep IT s technology and delivery managers aware of key customer issues, identifying and resolving potential problems and conflicts. Develop a communication plan for architecture at the domain level.
• Coordinate architecture implementation and modification activities. Ensure the conceptual completeness of the technical solution. Work closely with project management to ensure alignment of plans with what is being delivered.
• Lead the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry and market trends to assist in project/program development and/or operational support activities. Consider potential application and impact to domain s architecture.
• Identify the tools and components used within the domain based on the enterprise toolset and can define exceptions as warranted.
• Recommend expenditures based on the size, scope, and cost of hardware and software components.
• Develop, motivate, and mentor IT members to create a team environment.
• Provide leadership, technology guidance and mentor others throughout their domain.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to less-experienced team members.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Enterprise Departmental Requirements:

• Contributes to the IT strategy and ensures alignment with architectural strategy and business goals.
• Develops the solutions viewpoint, in which the business, information and technology viewpoints are synthesized into solutions that deliver capabilities to the enterprise.
• Participates in the business strategic planning cycle, gaining an understanding of common issues, drivers, imperatives and objectives across the enterprise.
• Lead technology industry analysis and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise architecture.
• Ensure the integration of all aspects of architecture across each domain and type (solution, technology, information, process) and alignment with business strategies, objectives and capability needs.
• Develop the principles to guide architecture decisions for the enterprise across all architecture types.
• Lead the development of holistic blueprints in coordination with the domain subject matter experts. Coordinate with other plans and strategic partners, identifying opportunities for shared solutions.
• Lead and coordinate the domain technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction.
• Guide strategy development and ensure alignment with architectural strategy and business goals.
• Contributes to the IT strategy and ensures alignment with architectural strategy and business goals.
• Analyze, design, and develop a roadmap and implementation plan based upon a current vs. future state in a cohesive architecture viewpoint.
• Define principles that guide technology decisions and the relationship between enterprise business context (industry and market trends) and specified technology.

Knowledge, Skill and Abilities:

Knowledge of:

• Utility business practices and relevant business needs, management principles and concepts, methods for troubleshooting systems and process issues.
• Utility culture to include market analysis and risk/mitigation strategy against competitors.
• Multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
• Advanced to expert level knowledge and understanding of architecture, application design, systems engineering and integration.
• Subject matter expert knowledge of products and services.

Skills and Abilities:

• Strong Leadership skills.
• Strategic thinker with strong analytic skills.
• Ability to self-motivate, take initiative and endure leadership skills to seek out work and accomplish goals.
• Decision making and critical thinking abilities to relate to and understand issues to reach productive decisions.
• Ability to think and act strategically to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the organization.
• Extensive experience in client relationship management through knowledge and ability to determine and satisfy client needs and maintain a partnering relationship during engagements.
• Ability to provide technical and business guidance in multiple situations both internally and externally.
• Ability to develop and integrate new ideas and initiatives that improve the performance of the organization.
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing and maintain effective working relationships with various levels of stakeholders internally and externally to the organization.
• Create detailed business case documents.

Job Requirements:

Education: A bachelor s degree in technology, engineering or comparable discipline from an accredited college or university; master s degree in business, information sciences, engineering, economics, or finance a plus.

Experience: Ten (10) years applicable experience in managing strategic initiatives in the utility or technology industry with eight (8) years of successful experience in consultation and deployment of complex technical projects, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of applications.

OR

A comparable combination of education, experience and training.

Industry recognized certifications within a specialty and/or other emerging technologies is preferred.