Job Description:

Lead efforts to define enterprise, system, level goals, principals, and guidelines

Development and maintenance of the architecture and design principles for applications, build, and integration

Apply Enterprise Architecture goals and principles to execute project architecture governance, which includes review, approval, and ability to influence project alignment to Enterprise Architecture goals

Define interactions between systems
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Establish current state system architecture, future state models, and transition steps. Identify potential application reuse opportunities

Collaborate with other architects to define enterprise solution patterns and define optimal environment solutions for development, test, and production

Work with technical architects to determine the most appropriate application partitioning to achieve optimal performance, scalability, etc..

Collaborate with business and information architects to ensure application-level software components are derived from and consistent with the business object model

Ensure functional requirements are successfully implemented in the business domain/object model; identify the techniques and technologies that should be applied at the application level; define the system and operational requirements that the technical infrastructure must support

Participate in application/project design and review sessions and in collaboration with other architects to validate and ensure the application design is in conformance with the enterprise technical, information and business architecture

Resolve the potential implications and conflicts between the application architecture, with any constraints imposed by the application (logical/physical) design to the architecture; provide viable alternative approaches and recommendation

Abstract and describe logical enterprise systems architecture to a variety of audiences.
Effectively negotiate and influence others, build and maintain relationships; communicate effectively with business teams, development teams, and executive management


Requirements:

Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills may be acquired.

Six to eight years of experience in designing and implementing small to medium size information systems projects through the integration of new technology; gathering information system requirements, analyzing requirements to determine system data architecture; implementing information systems; and solving complex technical problems in information systems

Hands on experience in object oriented and component oriented software design and development (Java, JEE), data modeling, hardware, design patterns, networks, and security

Understanding of mortgage related finance a plus

An understanding of the way technology and information architecture interacts with application architecture required.


If you are interested in the position described above, and/or any other openings, we would be happy to speak with you about this role or other active opportunities, and discuss your parameters for an ideal position, or simply to establish a relationship for the future. Our agency has clients in multiple locations throughout the United States and Canada.

Please, forward us a copy of your MS WORD resume to the address listed below. Obviously, we would not do anything with your resume, until we have had a chance to speak in depth about each opportunity, and make sure it is a suitable fit for your background and your interests.

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