Enterprise Architect

Job Title: Enterprise Architect

Job Location: Wilmington, DE (preferred), Omaha, NE, Coral Springs, FL, Berkeley Heights, NJ (100% Onsite - local only, no relocation)

Employment Type: FTE

Work Eligibility: US Permanent Eligibility to Work Required 

Key Technology: Front-end/UI Architecture, Java, digital platforms 

Job Responsibilities:

• Thought leadership in the sales and hand-off to delivery of complex solutions encompassing multiple products and services, involving a clear strategy for product integration
• Influence product development senior management on enterprise-level innovation roadmap strategy
• Assist Product Leaders with business guidance, consultative direction, and knowledge development
• Solution leadership on complex, supporting RFPs requiring collaboration and input from multiple Client divisions
• Develop design specifications, infrastructure diagrams and other system-related information.
• Maintain and/or obtain a detailed level of knowledge on company solutions, products and services.
• Engage extensively with development teams, related enterprise/software architects, business analysts, etc.
• Apply extensive analytical skills to address the needs of corporate strategy, understand technology specifics, understand how different parts of the business operation are connected.
• Good documentation skills and able to document detailed solutions for the overall domain area with current, interim, and target state detailed out.
• Present architecture solutions for architecture board to review and track down any open items.

Skills and Experience Required:

Required:

• 10 years of experience in large-scale IT system development, design and implementation, involving demonstrated project management, resource management, business analysis and leadership skills. Familiar with the functions of hardware, software, and network systems
• 3 years of experience in Front end/ UI architecture and product development with strong consultative and strategic sales support skill sets - React and Angular.
• 3 years of architecting solutions on modern tech stack leveraging microservices, cloud and data using domain driven design techniques.
• Must have modern technology stack experience in Java based microservices preferred with Kafka for event streaming.
• Experience with both Relational and non-Relational databases
• Financial industry experience.
• Experience with architecting a unified digital platform across web/ mobile spanning card-based payments, digital banking platforms, core banking and merchant solutions.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, emotional intelligence, with the ability to listen, advise, empathize, and explain to varied audiences, at all levels.
• Exceptional analytical skills and the ability to see the connections between layers of business operations

Desired:

• Mainframe experience.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree

- Strong understanding of technology platforms and modern technologies/approaches to drive technology that is innovative, competitive, secure and resilient.

- Exceptional communicator and presenter with excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to lead and influence cross functional teams to deliver and meet organizational needs in compressed timeframes.

- Ability to quickly evaluate options, unlock enterprise challenges, make technology recommendations, and recommend solutions within a diverse technology environment with multiple stakeholders inside customers’ environments.

- Familiarity with working in an agile-based environment

- Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

- Comfortable working with ambiguity and gray spaces.

- Exceptional interpersonal, negotiation, prioritization and relationship management skills

- Strong critical thinking, problem solving, conflict management and decision making skills

- Ability to manage multiple work commitments, producing high quality work products under pressure and within deadlines

Minimum Education Requirements:

- High School Diploma/GED with 2 years of experience, or Associate’s Degree, or Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s degree preferred.

- Minimum of 5 or more years of architecture experience; experience working in a large global IT environment strongly preferred.

Minimum Work Experience Requirements:

- Must have experience at a large technology products and services organization.

- Five or more years’ experience in an information technology discipline with increasing responsibility.

- Healthcare IT experience is highly preferred, ideally encompassing a broad range of business areas, care delivery settings, including related processes, integration and solution exposure.

- Product Model and Agile experience preferred (at scale)

- Familiarity with The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) and architecture modeling tools (e.g. Abacus, IBIS, Orbus iServer, MEGA, LeanIX, etc.