Solutions Architect

SUMMARY:

- Responsible for the assessment of business requirements; collection, identification, and approval of technical specifications; and the subsequent development of technology solutions that require development to be viable.

PRIMARY JOB DUTIES:

- Establish domain specific standards, near/mid-term strategy, and roadmaps, in adherence to, and in support of Enterprise standards, strategy, and roadmaps; provide direction on the implementation and execution.
- Assist in creating the vision for future state technologies and architecture and participate in setting Enterprise standards and mid/long-term strategy/roadmaps, acting as domain specific subject matter experts.
- Develop technology specifications and ensure that new technology solutions are designed for optimal access and usefulness, leverage existing technologies when possible, and adhere to Enterprise Architecture standards.
- Apply architectural and engineering concepts to design a solution that meets operational requirements, such as scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, extensibility, flexibility, availability, and manageability.
- Assist in identifying 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 input to management throughout the project management life cycle (PMLC).
- Assist 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. (ie, design reviews).
- Ensure technology solutions are production ready and meet the defined specifications; and that the solution can be maintained via production support methodologies and resources (knowledge management).
- Serve as technical owner and point of contact for domain specific solutions, in the Production environment.
- Facilitate communications between IS work groups and business stakeholders for technical issues and/or major changes; acting as the technical domain subject matter expert.
- Ensure technology solutions in Production are monitored and assessed for performance and sustainability through periodic health checks (such as capacity planning, incident and problem reviews).
- Assume ownership of problems and incidents and communicates critical situation status.
- Review the ongoing implementation solution for improvement opportunities.

SKILLS:

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

- B.S. in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related major or equivalent IS/business experience
- 6-8 years experience designing, implementing and supporting network solutions.