Job Details
Position - Solution Architecture
Location: Columbus, Ohio (Hybrid)
Rate - DOE
Start Date - Immediately
Description:
The Solution Architect works closely with IT leadership, business leaders, and service providers to develop and implement architecture strategies, as well as developing methodologies and processes to ensure compliance to those strategies.
Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Provide architectural leadership on the design and development of an enterprise solution.
- Drive the translation of the business client's complex business problems into the selected technology solutions by designing complete solutions that leverage various IT services components.
- Research possible solutions and alternatives for implementation of the project technology applications, business process and technical problems, problems, performs an analysis of alternatives, and leads the recommendation to a solution.
- Coordinate and develop systems integration designs for the project, including high-level and detailed system, application and technology diagrams.
- Align the selected technology solutions with the technical architecture, operational processes and lifecycle processes.
- Create solution architecture documentation and deliverables throughout the project lifecycle.
- Ensure that the project infrastructure is supportable and can be transitioned smoothly into production support organizations.
- Work to ensure that deliverables are completed on-time and under budget.
- Work with the project team to complete Integration Agreements and Technical Requirement documents for services being designed and developed as part of these solutions.
- Collaborate with data architects, infrastructure architects, and other portfolio/enterprise architects across the organization to ensure the proposed solutions align closely with the portfolio/enterprise level architecture.
- Be an IT liaison between various vendors engaged with and business staff for the project.
- Manage IT tasks to ensure they are being completed on a timely basis per project timeline.
Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- 7+ years of experience in IT application development
- 5+ years of experience functioning as a solution architect.
- General knowledge of IT Application, Security, and Infrastructure architecture and design
- This position requires an extensive background in information technology along with excellent interpersonal, research, analysis, and communication skills.
- The individual must be comfortable working across multiple business and IT product center domains and can demonstrate the ability to easily shift between technical analysis and business value discussions.
- Knowledge of systems development methodologies and systems integration methodologies
- Knowledge of business application technical design and implementation
Preferred Qualifications - Customer system experience.
- Utility industry experience.