Enterprise Solutions Architect

Description

Work Summary The candidate filling this Enterprise Solution Architect role will be responsible for articulating the architectural vision, conceptualizing and experimenting with alternative architectural approaches, develop and validate the architecture and high level solution design against business requirements. The individual will guide and mentor development teams on methodologies, processes and best practices. Responsibilities The Enterprise Solution Architect will help teams follow envisioned business and technology direction through the fact that the enterprise solution architectural vision transcends the scope and lifespan of any individual project or effort. The ideal candidate will be responsible for Articulate and document a solution architecture vision. Map business capabilities and services to IT solutions, plan IT solutions for future business opportunities. Assist in aligning business strategy to IT strategy, in ways that adhere to the IT maxims. Create solution architectures that are leverageable for future reuse, actively seek opportunities to leverage existing IT solutions for new business offerings and services. Align IT solutions with business functions to improve flexibility, facilitate large scale reuse, improve comprehensibility and visibility of team value to the business. Partner with business, Research and other teams, where appropriate, in designing IT solutions that match the needs of the business. Continuously improve processes, technologies, applications to provide best value to business. Assist development teams in developing and enhancing detailed application designs and interfaces. Assess and formulate go forward architecture and technology direction for IT solutions. Aggressively identify enterprise IT application solution/technology initiatives that are of value. Collaborate with other architects and teams in execution of the initiatives. Facilitate cross team and cross component collaboration. Review and approve project deliverables to ensure that they are architecturally sound and achieve as great a degree of fit with the desired architectures as possible. Facilitate leverage and reuse of components, solutions and technologies across teams and projects. Additional responsibilities include influencing business strategy by explaining the capabilities of the architecture to management and the business, maintain a broad understanding of the business including customer and market trends. The candidate must have the ability to contribute to future vision and strategy by conducting research and proof of concepts, maintaining a broad knowledge of new technical tools and trends, envisioning how those tools could be used in improving the business processes.