- Continue development of a transition strategy from the FACS Mainframe system (COBOL, IDMS) to a custom developed Azure Cloud based solution, including user experience, authoring, information, application, mobility, analytics, and other capabilities within an Azure tenant.
- Work closely with the Product Owners, Product Architect, and Business Analyst team to understand and document business drivers, capabilities, and processes (future and current state).
- Articulate the art of the possible to product owners and technology stakeholders, in the language and terms most suitable for the given audience.
- Evaluate and consult on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business value and outcomes.
- Develop and extend the Architecture Runway to sustain delivery velocity towards MVP release.
- Drive technology maturation/readiness and leverage into IT investments
- Partner with Core IT application/platform/service owners, Vendor Management, Regulatory and Security, Compliance, and other external State and Federal partners.
- Partner with IT Leaders on approaches to data integration, infrastructure, technical debt, and operational readiness.
- Introduce reusable design components, architecture patterns, and recommend fit.
- Create and maintain a standard set of solutions architecture artifacts, utilizing these for collaboration and analysis.
- Document architecture decisions and collaborate on strategies, policies, standards, and guidelines necessary to support business goals and alignment with Enterprise Architecture
- Work closely with the Product/Data/Security architects on their delivery of Product Roadmaps, Data Models, and Security Reference Architecture.
- Lead and present during Architecture Review Board checkpoints.
- Consult on proof-of-concepts.
A successful candidate for this role is expected to possess the following skills and experience:
- Proven strategic planning experience dealing with large systems – maintain a real perspective on what a multi-billion-dollar organization requires to support operational readiness and continuous change.
- Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms, and processing environments (on-premises, cloud, hybrid).
- Experience designing systems architectures utilizing SOA-based technologies (SOAP, REST, etc.), including component and web service design.
- A current-day future-focused IT thinker who can drill down to identify and define problems and issues, with the leadership experience to charter a course to meet current and future demands.
- Demonstrated architectural experience with multiple technical disciplines, including storage, network, compute, voice, video, artificial intelligence, and application development, across lines of business or entire enterprise domains.
- Ability to understand business needs, negotiate complex issues, and translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirements.
- Ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Experience building core platforms utilizing common architectural patterns and reusable building blocks that meet a wide range of customer-facing solutions.
- Experience using industry standard modeling languages and notations such as ArchiMate, BPMN 2.0
- Experience using Enterprise Architecture tools, such as Bizz design, for modeling solutions architecture.
- Experience using Lucid Chart, or similar tools, to collaboratively diagram, visualize, and communicate complex information.
- Experience delivering in an iterative, Agile product delivery environment, including a working knowledge of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
- Demonstrated ability to quickly build trust, inspire innovation, and uplift team members.