Enterprise Architect

AVA Consulting is seeking an Enterprise Architect.

Location: Plano, TX

U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time.

Company Background: Our client, a major employer in the area, is looking for a Domain Architect/Enterprise Architect to be part of its team in its North American operations.

Job Description:

• The Domain Architecture Owner is responsible and accountable for all Architecture and design decisions within a Domain. They ensure proposed technology solutions are designed to meet or exceed functional requirements, non-functional requirements, adhere to the Architecture Standards, and aligns with the longer-term digital transformation strategy.
• The candidate would possess strong leadership, excellent oral and written communication skills, and a proven ability to present and discuss technical, functional, and managerial information clearly and concisely to various stakeholders from Business Executives to Developers. Expertise in architecting and developing secure, scalable, reliable, fault-tolerant distributed applications.
• The Domain Architecture Owners partner with their assigned Domains to drive key technology decisions. They create and maintain business architecture artifacts and domain technology roadmaps.

Responsibilities:

• Be part of the Domain leadership team to create technology strategy and influence technology direction.
• Responsible and accountable for all architecture functions within the domain.
• Collaborate with other stakeholders and architects to drive consensus.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining Business Capability map for the domain.
• Creates and maintains Technology Strategy, current and target State architectures for the domain.
• Participates in all Cross-domain architecture routines.
• Support solution architecture to create application high level and low-level designs and document the necessary artifacts.
• Other activities as assigned by the Domain Architecture Leader.

Requirements:

Required Skills:

• Four-Year College Degree (BA or BS
• 5-10 years of relevant / progressive work experience (in similar field and/or industry)
• Broad technology experience including cloud architecture, applications development, relational databases, NoSQL databases, analytics, machine learning, networking, security, storage, DevOps, containers, serverless, CI/CD, management and monitoring, cloud migrations, and IT transformation.
• Software Development Expertise such as, Solid understanding of domain specific applications.
• Mastery of distributed applications, project life cycle, and the basics of technical operations (networks, data center, database, integration, and migration activities).
• Development Methodology has mastered and understands common development models including waterfall and agile processes.
• Mastery of unit testing, software change management, software release management.
• Presentation and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and technical teams.
• Having experience with any EA framework such as TOGAF, Zachman, etc. as well as with any EAM tools such as LeanIX, Ardoc, ArchiMate, etc.

Preferred Skills:

• Cloud experience: Migrating or transforming legacy solutions to the cloud.
• Architecting/designing solutions built on cloud ideal but not required (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
• Project management skills:
• Working knowledge of project management principles.
• Experience in estimating and measuring project size and scope.

NOTE: Interested Candidates can apply by sending their Updated Resume and Contact Details.

Ron Tolson

AVA Consulting

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