.Net Architect with Azure

Job Title: Technical Architect

Job Type: Full Time/ W2 Contract

• Providing overall direction, guidance and definition of enterprise architecture solutions to effectively support the business strategy.
• Provides technical and architectural leadership for Microsoft .NET web applications
• Provides technical and architectural leadership on various business and enterprise applications. Works with architecture, development, and infrastructure teams to produce an optimal, high level, conceptual design for the project. Develops enterprise level solutions that integrate across applications, systems and platforms.
• Manages and mentors multiple Solution and Application Architects; approves application architecture designs, and lead technical design sessions with architects and developers.
• Defines application technology strategy and architecture to ensure alignment with technology industry standards, application technology roadmap, and business needs. Researches emerging technologies and solutions to solve complex business problems. Proposes and maintains reference architecture.
• Partners with business analysts, systems analysts and engineers to define and review requirements. Advises and consults senior leadership on costs, benefits, and implementation of technology solutions.
• Recommends changes in process, policies, and standards as they relate to the architecture and design principles.
• Creates project and application architecture deliverables that are consistent with architecture principles, standards, methodologies, and best practices.
• Responsible for defining technical evaluation criteria for product and technology selection and determining technical approaches to ensure all architectural solutions result in a coherent systems design.
• Leads technical design sessions with the development teams, including the creation of class models, sequence diagrams, component models, etc., and detailed design specifications to ensuring that architecture standards are followed.
• Provides support / guidance to the development teams during the analysis, development, and testing processes.
• Works with business clients and product owners to review business drivers, needs, and strategies to anticipate future business / technology needs.
• Reviews and approves 3rd party and integration solution architecture based on established enterprise application strategy.
• Communicates implications of architectural decisions, technology costs, benefits, and implementation requirements to business and IT Leadership.
• Defines and validates non-functional (technical) requirements and establishing traceability between requirements and application architecture/design.
• Provides input to the development of project initiation documents including objectives, scope, approach, estimates, and deliverables, when needed.
• Works closely with Performance Engineering and our Web/Infrastructure Technology teams on defining the deployment architecture.
• Stays abreast of changes in vendor landscape and provides guidance around Deloitte Application Studios long-term vendor strategy towards mobile application development.
• Instills a culture of execution, operational excellence, and accountability.
• Seeks and capitalizes on the opportunities to improve productivity, improving time-to-market, improving solutions quality, and improving cost effectiveness.
• Anticipates barriers to change and creates opportunities to remove them.
• Creates a culture that is based on knowledge sharing and learning from best practices.
• Exhibits high level of professional flexibility and volunteering innovation and new ideas.