What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Solution Architect position at The Jackson Laboratory?
Job Summary
Are you passionate about defining and guiding architectural strategies that drive innovation and efficiency? As a Senior Solution Architect, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our organization. Reporting to the Senior Director, JMCRS IT, you'll establish best practices and standards to ensure excellence in software delivery. You'll collaborate closely with key stakeholders, including Leadership, to maintain architectural integrity and achieve successful project outcomes.
In this role, you will be responsible for developing and implementing architectural strategies that align with both business objectives and technical requirements. You'll drive innovation and efficiency across the organization by ensuring the conceptual solution architecture is robust and scalable. Your expertise will be crucial in identifying opportunities to optimize current processes and technologies, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
What You'll Contribute
- Lead architectural reviews for all software delivery projects within our portfolio, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and technical standards.
- Establish, define, and foster architectural standards, best practices, and ways of working, optimizing current processes to enhance efficiency and quality.
- Create an architecture community of practice, collaborating cross-functionally to share knowledge, set direction, and drive architectural excellence.
- Lead the Technical Architecture Review Board (ARB) process to socialize and make decisions on work prior to implementation, incorporating input from other cross-functional areas and roles.
- Evaluate current application implementations and identify ways to rationalize and simplify our application portfolio, ensuring a streamlined and effective technology landscape.
- Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices, driving innovation within the organization by orchestrating proofs of concept (POVs) when applicable.
- Recommend the best-fit technology for business problems, identifying commodity versus differentiating capabilities, and providing direction on the buy versus build decision.
- Partner cross-functionally to ensure alignment of architecture and delivery across the organization, fostering a cohesive and integrated approach to technology solutions.
What You're Good At
The salary range is $113,718 - $190,388. Salary will be determined based on qualifications and relevant experience.
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About JAX :
The Jackson Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution with a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center and nearly 3,000 employees in locations across the United States (Maine, Connecticut, California),Japan andChina. Its mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health.
Founded in 1929, JAX applies over nine decades of expertise in genetics to increase understanding of human disease, advancing treatments and cures for cancer, neurological and immune disorders, diabetes, aging and heart disease. It models and interprets genomic complexity, integrates basic research with clinical application, educates current and future scientists, and provides critical data, tools and services to the global biomedical community. For more information, please visitwww.jax.org.
EEO Statement :
The Jackson Laboratory provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, age, mental disability, physical disability, medical condition, gender, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, national origin, veteran status, and other classifications protected by applicable state and local non-discrimination laws.
Salary : $113,718 - $190,388
