IT Principal Architect - Enterprise

Description & Requirements

The enterprise architect proactively and holistically helps and guides the enterprise leaders, product managers, product owners and distributed product delivery teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes and capabilities. Focus on development of the business and IT strategy and enterprise architecture of the organization as a whole.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Ensure that all of the resources and support for hardware and hardware modernization (as well as the addition of new capabilities) meet the client's requirements.

- Leverage technological advances to improve system capability, reliability, and extend system life.

- Provide a variety of technical support analysis and integration required.

- Provide subject matter expertise and guidance to both Business and Technical Teams on the overall solution architecture.

- Perform gap analysis of current and targeted system operating environments.

- Provide a technology roadmap for maintaining and improving services provided to the external customers.

- Provide forward leading solution enhancements to the Business that support both cost and quality competitiveness.

- Work effectively and efficiently with other departments and Senior Leadership (Capture Management Team, IT Infrastructure, Information Security, and Application Development) to ensure all needs are included in the overall architecture.

- Assist in proposal writing and business development which includes; understanding overall client business needs, product/service strategic direction operations, federal policy requirements, and business development strategy.

- Frequently responsible for providing guidance, coaching, and training to other employees across the organization within area of expertise.

• Leads analysis of the business' future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical gaps and opportunities and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business towards its targeted outcomes.

• Scans emerging technologies and the business ecosystem for major disruptive technology and nontechnology trends (trendspotting) that affect business.

• Provides consultative advice, adapted to stakeholder context, to business leaders and organizational stakeholders who seek actionable recommendations to make investment decisions about the next business and operating model of their organization, using technology to make that change happen.

• Provides practical advice and best practices to take advantage of new, or emerging, opportunities and successfully deliver the expected business outcomes.

• Leads analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.

• Leads the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and the varying IT strategies for project-driven or product-driven delivery teams.

• Develops and applies minimal viable architectures, which can include a set of standards, reference architecture patterns, principles and guardrails, through the EA governance model, which is informed by the business strategy and corporate governance. Clarifies accountability and provides the focal point for agile, effective and efficient decision making.

• Collaborates with delivery teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market.

• Collaborates with infrastructure teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.

Credentials and Experience

• Master's or bachelor's degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.

• Eight or more years of business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis or experience as an enterprise architecture consultant.

• Eight or more years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development,

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 10+ years of relevant professional experience required.

• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.

• Understanding of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting and risk management.

• Familiarity with enterprise architecture tools, related graphical models, and frameworks.

• Insight into information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.

• Understanding of various operating models such as project-centric and product-centric and also different types of agile principles, methodologies and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at the enterprise level.

• Awareness of existing, new and emerging technologies, and processing environments.

• Effective leadership skills with exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.

• Strong consulting skills such as targeted communications, engagement management, stakeholder management and business development.

• Mastery of all components of enterprise architecture, business & IT principles and processes.

Competencies

• Excellent analytical, planning and organizational skills. Organizationally savvy, with situational and contextual intelligence of the political climate of the enterprise and how to navigate obstacles and politics.

• Balances the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications of individual decisions and organization goals.

• Estimates the financial impact of EA alternatives and applies multiple solutions to business problems.

• Rapidly comprehends the functions and capabilities of new technologies.

• Ready to think, behave and act in an innovative consulting manner to drive the organization's digital business strategies.

• Understands and speaks the language of the business. Excellent written, verbal, communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

Characteristics

• Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders.

• Comfortable, experienced and accomplished at working with business executives, and able to push back in a professional and diplomatic way.

• Highly collaborative and supportive of business and of its ideals and strategies.

• Highly innovative with aptitude for foresight, systems thinking and design thinking.

• Vendor- and technology-neutral - more interested in achieving targeted business outcomes than in personal preferences, or in vested personal preferences of other business and IT leaders.

• Composed in the face of opposition to architectural principles, governance and standards.

• Practical in approach to problem solving and decision making.

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Minimum Salary


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130,240.00

Maximum Salary


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195,360.00