Open Systems, Inc./Alpharetta, GA
Role & Responsibilities
The Senior Application Architect will be responsible for articulating an architectural vision, conceptualizing architectural approaches, developing and validating the architecture and high level solution design against business requirements, and guiding and mentoring development teams on methodologies, processes and best practices according to Architecture Framework based on TOGAF. The Senior Application Architect will be expected to work on multiple tasks and initiatives concurrently while being accountable for driving success through:
Leadership. Knowing when to focus on the details or taking a step back to look at the big picture and evaluating an issue. The architect enforces engineering methodology, reviews engineering design packages and drives to minimize technical exposure and risks on projects. The ideal candidate is a trusted technical advisor that collaborates with both business and technical stakeholders, sets direction, builds consensus, mediates conflicts, and helps to create an environment which solicits contributions from all participants. Excellent client-facing skills and executive presence are essential to the role.
Promoting a Passion for Technology. The Senior Application Architect is expected to evangelize best practices for application engineering, component re-use, architecture design and technical standards, while maintaining an awareness of new/emerging technologies and their potential application to existing service offerings. An understanding of architectural solutions to address functional and non-functional requirements is critical, as is hands-on experience implementing technical solutions. As a technical thought leader, the Senior Application Architect also understands that the architectural vision for the enterprise transcends the scope and lifespan of any individual project or effort.
Collaboration and Ingenuity. The Senior Application Architect drives the solution architecture model and ingenuity is crucial to the problem solving and critical thinking skills required to craft successful results. The position brings facts and requirements to life in ways which inspire and motivate solution development. To achieve these goals, the Senior Application Architect is engaged throughout solution delivery, working closely with the following key organizational groups:
Enterprise Architecture to understand, define and apply enterprise level standards and influence business strategy
Application Engineering Leads, Technical Leads and staff to drive strategic goals/objectives
Infrastructure Architecture to understand, validate and action infrastructure impacts
Project Management to coordinate solutions from technical perspective and minimize technical risk
Business Analysts to understand and clarify functional and non-functional requirements
Quality Assurance to effectively support proper testing
Information Security to ensure compliance with secure development standards and negotiate security trade-offs
Operations to take into account operational (non-functional) requirements
Communication. The Senior Application Architect is expected to proactively identify and address technical strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Listening is the most effective art form available to gain these insights. A successful Senior Application Architect will build a shared understanding of the solution with the capacity for communicating that vision though technical materials, verbal presentations, and facilitating inter-team discussion.
Additionally, the Senior Application Architect will be responsible for:
Defining the overall data warehouse architecture (ETL Processes, ODS, EDW, Data Marts)
Defining technical and data architectures for the warehouse
Evaluating and recommending specific data warehousing technologies
Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree or equivalency (CS, CE, CIS, IS, MIS, or engineering discipline)
Minimum 6 years' experience leading successful data warehousing implementations as a software architect, providing technical leadership/guidance/mentorship
Extensive, real-world experience designing enterprise software and defining Solution Architectures and technology (UML, design patterns, SOA, EAI, BPI, etc. )
Experience building and supporting mission critical applications, running in a highly distributed manner. Experience with multi-tier system development for large enterprises
Strong understanding of RDBMS (SQL Server, Oracle), data integration patterns, ETL (SSIS), data modelling (normalized and multidimensional), data security, performance optimization. Must have experience working with highly transactional systems with large data volumes.
Intimate familiarity with Kimball and Inmon data warehousing models
Familiar with architecture principles and frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, Gartner, DOD etc.)
Knowledge of leading Business Intelligence/Reporting tools and reporting database design
Experience in designing and engineering applications using MS SharePoint platform (desirable)
Exposure to application security technologies and approaches
Experience in full development life cycle phases
Familiarity with various requirements gathering techniques
Familiarity with configuration management concepts and tools
Software prototyping experience
Must be able to communicate fluently in English, both written and verbal.
The following industry qualifications are desirable:
Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert: Data platform, Business intelligence
TOGAF 9 certified
Employment Type: Permanent
Work Hours: Full Time
Other Pay Info: BOE
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