Enterprise Identity Architect

Enterprise Identity Architect Location: Westlake Village CA
Duration: 5 months contract (potential to go PERM eventually)
Work from Office
Responsibilities:
The Vice President Architect is responsible for providing strategic guidance, designs, and solution patterns to team members, and is the "chief architect for a sub product/s. As the Architect, you will serve as a driver and collaborator throughout the development life cycle, partnering with business analysts and customers to review and optimize requirements.
The VP Architect will:

• Lead the architectural design and initial development and/or major revision of business software solutions
• Identify and solve systemic architectural problems at the product or multiple subproducts / teams / technical area levels
• Define product requirements and create high-level architectural specifications, ensuring feasibility, functionality and integration with existing systems and platforms
• Solve a variety of very open-ended and complex (even to the PM, TLs and Sr. TLs who presented them) problems
• Provide technical guidance across several scrum teams
• Perform other related duties as required and assigned
• Demonstrate behaviors which are aligned with the organization's desired culture and values

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or similar major
• 7+ years of experience with software development
• Demonstrated track record of anticipating technical problems that will fall out of major subproducts/products and designing solutions to overcome them.
• Financial Services and, if possible, mortgage industry experience preferred