**Senior IT Architect** **\-** **INF0016619**
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**Description**
**_PLEASE ONLY APPLY IF YOU DO NOT NEED SPONSORSHIP TO WORK IN THE UNITED STATES\. WE ARE UNABLE TO CONSIDER CANDIDATES WHO REQUIRE SPONSORSHIP\._**
**Location:** Austin, Texas
**About the General Motors Customer Care & Aftersales Team:**
GM’s Customer Care & Aftersales IT team innovates and drives business value with systems that help GM deliver consistent messaging, transactions and services\. The Customer Care & Aftersales IT team is responsible for developing and delivering solutions leveraging a wide array of systems architectures and technical platforms\. Our industry leading developers, engineers, testers and architects work closely with internal teams and dealers to deliver the world’s best customer experience\.
**About the role:**
An IT architect is responsible and accountable for the quality and cohesion of solution architecture components within an assigned domain and their conformance to approved GM IT standards and alignment with the future state enterprise and domain architectural goals\. This includes both hands\-on development of IT technology solution architectures as well as management of various architectural initiatives\.
An IT architect is able to look across the assigned domain to ensure consistent alignment of technical solutions with the business goals and objectives of the supported unit\. The architect provides industry leading technical direction and guidance to various project teams to ensure appropriate and cost effective application of GM approved technologies\. Ensures appropriate and effective data integration across multiple applications\.
A Senior Staff Architect is a technical leadership level architect position\. An Advanced IT Architect is expected to have multi\-discipline expertise and capabilities required of an IT architect and a strong practically based working knowledge of various architectural patterns, technologies and architecture management processes\. An Advanced IT Architect is capable of working with without direct supervision to develop multi\-layered solution architectures that comprehend and specify business, application, data and infrastructure designs\. An Advanced IT Architect will also contribute to the definition of GM IT technology direction, standards and roadmaps across one or more business or technical domains\.
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**Qualifications**
**Education and Experience Required:**
+ A BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information technology, math, sciences or technical discipline or equivalent experience/training
+ 10\-15 years’ experience in analysis, design and development of integration n\-Tier application
+ Minimum 10\-15 years hands\-on experience with requirements gathering, test case development, system & integration testing, custom off the shelf \(COTS\)/business intelligence \(BI\) implementations and systems integration
+ Solid working knowledge of software or hardware design, selection and deployment techniques and methodologies
+ Practical knowledge of the application of architecture design methodologies and frameworks
+ Knowledge of multiple IT technology domains including software development languages and platforms, infrastructure platforms, data management and database technologies, networking technologies and security frameworks and tools\.
+ Knowledge of all and Mastery of many of the following product/technologies:
>Mainframe: COBOL, Mainframe, IMS
Frameworks: Struts, Spring, \.NET, Jquery, ExtJS
Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2,PL/SQL Programming, Stored Procedure Development, Performance Tuning, Data warehouses/ETL tools, Relational/OLAP Data Modelling
Web Application Servers: WebSphere, WebLogic, TomCat, IIS
Other: Business Intelligence, Mobile Development, Oracle SOA, SAP, Peoplesoft, Teamcenter/NX
Development Environments: Eclipse, Jdeveloper, Visual Studio
OS: Linux, UNIX, Windows, VMware, Android, iOS
Tools: QC/ALM, Performance Center, QTP, Selenium, Subversion, Rally, Teamforge, Rational suite, Hudson/Jenkins, Sonar
Methodologies: Agile, Spiral, Waterfall, Iterative
Network: LAN/WAN/CAN/WiFi/RF/PlantFloor \- CISCO, GE Cimplicity
Storage/BUR: EMC >+ Robust multi\-year experienced based knowledge and ability to apply the principles of application or infrastructure architectures, including the distinction between contextual, conceptual, logical and physical layers
+ Defines and applies the distinction and dependencies between business, information, systems and technology architecture layers
+ Proven experience based ability to design, develop, recommend and approve IT solutions based on defined requirements in a large\-scale multi\-national organization
+ Ability to evaluate and select various technologies for suitable inclusion in IT solution designs\. Can also identify opportunities to apply new technologies to improve IT solution architectures
+ Ability to develop and comprehend abstract models of IT solution architectures, including various views of solution architectures
+ Contributes to the development of GM IT standards for architecture model development and documentation
+ Ability to review, contribute to and lead the definition of functional and non\-functional business requirements and translate these into clearly articulated architectural requirements in the context of the required solution
+ Contributes to the definition of standard non\-functional architecture related requirements that are applied across multiple technology domains
+ Participates in and occasionally leads the discovery, documentation and refinement of business requirements to ensure alignment with technically viable solution designs
+ Identifies and documents applicable assumptions related to the technical viability of defined and reviewed solutions\. Validates these assumptions as needed to ensure solution appropriateness
+ Defines current and future state architectural models and views as necessary to ensure availability of a thorough and robust comprehension of the assigned domain
+ Participates in and occasionally leads technical incident management and troubleshooting
+ Ability to work constructively as an individual or in groups with minimal supervision\. Leads groups of technical professionals in the context of one or more projects\. Understands and can apply software engineering and application development methodologies in a complex multi\-project environment\. Subject matter expertise across applications, data, database, middleware, mainframe and midrange server computing, network \(Intranet/Extranet/Internet\), security, and client platform \(Including mobile\) IT products and services\.
+ Understands security risks for applications and code remediation techniques
SAP: HANA, ECC, GRC, EWM, BW, PI
Microsoft: ASP\.NET/VB\.NET/C\#/VC\+\+/MFC, Microsoft Dynamics, SharePoint
Web: Java, HTML, HTML5, JavaScript, Python, PHP, CSS3
**Why General Motors?**
At GM, we’ve charged ourselves with one mission: to design, build and sell the world’s best vehicles\. And to achieve our goals, we’re currently undergoing one of the largest information technology transformations in the history of the automotive industry\.
GM IT is a leader in cutting edge technologies such as Mobility, Telematics, Mission\-Critical Business Systems, Supercomputing, Vehicle Engineering, and Real\-time Computing\. We offer challenging growth oriented positions for passionate professionals looking to get in on the ground\-floor of a growing “Fortune 5” firm that is re\-inventing IT with a laser focus on innovation, speed, and business value\.
The policy of General Motors is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status\. Additionally, General Motors is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities\. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us at Careers\.Accommodations@GM\.com\. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying\.
## **Primary Location** US\-TX\-Austin
## **Posting Date** **:** May 11, 2016, 10:00:45 PM\-Ongoing
## **Job** **:** Information Technology
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