Job Summary:
The Solutions Architect (SA) is a member of a Web & Creative services delivery team supporting new development and projects. Their primary focus will be moving business objectives through technology enablement by creating technical solutions. The primary technologies used in this team is Sitecore and SharePoint platforms to deliver web-based solutions.
The SA is responsible for:
· The assessment of business requirements; approval of technical requirements; creation of technical specifications and solution design documents.
· Project Registry initial project estimate sizing based on very broad and/or limited statements for business prioritization and planning purposes.
· Presenting designs to Enterprise Architecture for review after initial design and prior to production implementation.
· Technology solutions that require development to be viable - i.e., business applications, LOB applications, work flow systems, purchased applications, developed applications, and applications integration; subsequently guiding solution execution from design to production.
· The quality and integrity of a solution; and is ultimately responsible for its viability in the Production environment.
· Use of the Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) tool Troux adding, updating/maintaining information of the Allegis Group systems and technologies.
The SA must be able to:
· Speak the language of business - translate business problems into technical solutions and measure success using business terms.
· Speak the language of architecture - frameworks, methodologies, patterns, maturity models, physical, logical, functional diagrams, use cases, etc.
· Speak the language of technology - new technologies, trends, directions, modeling, POC’s, non-functional requirements, SLA’s, compare/contrast vendors in a technology space.
The SA will:
· Adhere to Enterprise Architecture (EA) standards, and may also assist in the creation of EA standards, methodologies, and frameworks.
· Ensure that new technology solutions are designed for optimal access and usefulness; and to leverage existing technologies, as appropriate.
· Understand enterprise wide impacts to people, process, and technology when introducing new solutions.
· Assist in near/mid-term roadmap creation - to address gaps and move their domain towards the future state architecture, in support of future business growth and innovation.
· Guide a solution from concept to delivery - envision and create solutions that meet requirements; model the pieces of an infrastructure and their points of integration; prove the feasibility of a design; and can ultimately be implemented and supported in the Production environment.
Essential Functions:
· Establish domain specific standards, near/mid-term strategy, and roadmaps (0-18 months), in adherence to, and in support of Enterprise standards, strategy, and roadmaps.
· Assist in creating the vision for future state technologies and architecture and participate in setting Enterprise standards and mid/long-term strategy / roadmaps (18-60 months), acting as domain specific subject matter experts.
· Apply architectural and engineering concepts to design a solution that meets operational requirements, such as scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, extensibility, flexibility, availability, and manageability.
· Identify the technologies to employ based on price, performance, service agreements, and organization constraints.
· Participate and lead research and development efforts (proof of concept, prototypes), as subject matter experts, when introducing new technologies.
· Provide technical expertise to propose level of effort estimates (LOE), work breakdown structures, and technical resource planning for proposed and current work to support the Project Management Office (PMO) and Demand Management process.
· Ability to gain buy-in on proposed solutions.
· Provide input to management throughout the project management lifecycle (PMLC).
· Assists managers with developing the service level agreements (SLAs) and deployment of key performance measures.
· Participate in various phases of the SDLC to perform QA/architectural review functions, and to ensure adherence to Enterprise Architecture (EA) technology standards and project specific solutions architecture. (i.e., design reviews).
· Keep current and informed of domain related technologies and best practices.
· Serve as technical owner and point of contact for domain specific solutions.
· Provide coaching and mentoring to team members in the areas of technical skills and competency.
Supervisory or Management Responsibility: N/A
Budget Responsibility:
· Assist delivery and enterprise architecture teams with creating and maintain financial plans regarding the technology roadmaps.
Decision Making Level:
· Assist with determining enterprise architecture standards, principles, and technology decisions.
Minimum Education and/or Experience:
· B.S. in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related major or equivalent IS / business experience.
· 8-10 years experience of IS / business experience, more specifically programming, engineering and/or systems analysis. Has a broad level of understanding surrounding information systems.
· 5+ years experience with Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Content Management Systems (CMS), Document Management, and related technologies and concepts such as Responsive Web Design, Cloud/SaaS technology, Wikis, and Social Media.
Requisite Abilities and/or Skills:
· 5 + years of experience with relational data structures, theories, principles, and practices.
· Knowledge and skills in content and document management methodologies and tools
· Proven track record of successfully delivering application development projects.
· Demonstrated thorough understanding of modern enterprise architecture, hands-on experience with Microsoft suite of technologies.
· Expert level of technical knowledge and understanding of architecture, application systems design and integration
· Demonstrated understanding of software development design patterns
· 3-5 years of experience with deployment and administration of:
o Web development experience using web technologies and languages (.net, c#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, JSON, XML)
o SharePoint suite of tools
o Microsoft SQL Server
· Demonstrated understanding of
o Internet Information Server (IIS)
o Issues related to scalability and reliability
o Experience integrating SharePoint 2010/2013 with Office 2010/2013
o Extensible Markup Language (XML), Extensible Style Language (XSL), CAML in the context of Microsoft SharePoint
o Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), experience with Tibco integration a plus
o JMS messaging, transaction, XML and/or Web Services integration technologies.
· Possesses in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline and broad knowledge of other disciplines within Information Services
· Collaborates with management to establish protocols and processes for the discipline
· Possesses in-depth knowledge of industry’s business environment
· Anticipates internal and or external business challenges and/or regulatory issues; recommends process, product or service improvements
· Behaves in accordance with objectives and strategic plan; provides strategic or conceptual advice and updates on project milestones and achievement of objectives
· Anticipates and solves unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business; uses conceptual thinking to develop solutions
Special Requirements of the job:
· Microsoft SharePoint and related certifications
· Office 365/SharePoint Online
· SiteCore WCMS experience and related certifications
· Experience with Troux EPM
· Microsoft Team Foundation Server
· Microsoft SQL Server
· Oracle DB
· Oracle WebCenter
· MongoDB especially in the contact of SiteCore DMS
· Software Development Lifecycle, especially Agile
· HP Quality Center knowledge a plus
· ITILv3 certifications a plus
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Core Competencies:
· Customer Service
· Building Relationships
· Business Knowledge / Organizational Acumen
· Initiative and Drive
· Leading Self and Others