Sr IT Architect (Enterprise Business Architecture)

Position Summary

Creates an environment where full context is provided to drive strategy for moderately complex, transformative initiatives.  Develops and validates the IT architecture against requirements of the business for initiatives of moderate 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 moderate sophistication in relationship building and partnership. May perform duties in one or more of the following practices: Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, and Technology Architecture.

What You'll Do: This opportunity is for a Sr IT Architect: Enterprise Business Architecture (Corporate Enablement)

• Support strategies while evolving with changing priorities and operating models
• Support business agility through agile engagement across multiple delivery operations
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, commercial technology investment, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, and risk management
• Ability to drive closure of decisions within a consensus-driven environment
• Strong consulting skills applied via solid relationships and trust
• Exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including facilitation and negotiation

Preferred Experience & Skills:

• Skill Breadth: 2 or more domains/portfolios
• AWS Solutions Architect - Professional Certification
• Experience: 3+ years in architecture

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. 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

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

Physical Requirements