IT Architect/Sr IT Architect

Position Summary

Creates an environment where full context is provided to drive strategy for minimally complex, routine initiatives.  Develops and validates the IT architecture against requirements of the business for initiatives of isolated architectural impact.  Sets direction and achieves alignment around the IT strategy and determines the best path to achieve it.  Empowers the organization to efficiently make high-quality technology and process decisions that enable our business vision in environments that require basic skill in relationship building and partnership. May perform duties in one or more of the following practices: Solution Architecture or Technology Architecture.

What You'll Do:

This opportunity is for an IT Architect or Sr IT Architect to serve as the Technical Architect Supporting the Omnichannel and Service Management program team technology stack. 

Preferred Experience & Skills:

• Understands Agile
• Understands Systems and how they integrate
• Good communicator, understands patterns and standards, comfortable with challenging conversations.
• Effective at influence and persuasion without authority

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Deals with ambiguity well and demonstrated leadership on technical efforts

Duties and Responsibilities

• Applies focus to driving change within people as change leaders, catalyzers, influencers, etc.
• Aligns investments to business outcomes by providing the direction and artifacts for how people, processes, technology, and information combine to improve business capabilities.
• Actively matures discipline based on industry and internal best practices.
• Actively engages with partners to define business outcomes. Clearly articulates business and technical concepts so others can understand the context of our investments.
• Provides outside-in (external, industry, customer, etc.) and outcome-based perspective to drive change that reduces expenses, enables business agility, and improves competitive position.  Ensures flexibility of change to future-proof investment by providing the ability to re-configure or pivot as necessary with less switching costs.
• Drives collaboration across disparate groups on broad topics towards decisionable results and provides appropriate levels of open communication.
• Utilizes sufficient facts and sound business judgment to influence decision makers in an evolving environment and captures those decisions in meaningful artifacts.  The artifacts are created as written accounts of collaboration.
• Forms an effective partnership with other job families for results-driven outcomes. Presents a unified architectural perspective and function.

The first eight duties listed are the functions identified as essential to the job. Essential functions are those job duties that must be performed in order for the job to be accomplished.

The position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the incumbent. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instruction and to perform any other duties as requested by their supervisor, or as become clear.

Competencies

Qualifications

Minimum Educational and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT, MIS, Business or related field, plus two years' related experience, or; 
• Associate's degree in a technical field, plus four years' related experience, or; 
• High School Diploma plus six years' related experience.
   

Physical Requirements