IT Application Architect
Company: Hornet Staffing
Location: Jacksonville
Posted on: January 27, 2023
Job Description:
Job Description:
- The IT Technical Solutions Architect will work within a project
along with the Project Manager to exercise end-to-end
accountability for the solution to ensure quality project outcomes
and that the system that is built meets the business needs and
achieves the intended business value.
- They are accountable for the overall architecture and design of
the solution across a limited number of applications or domains and
are assigned to projects/initiatives of medium size, complexity and
risk.
- They provide broad cross-functional expertise to assist with
problem resolution.
- The IT Technical Solutions Architect serves the company as an
advisor on best practices and is responsible for designing and
effectively implementing strategies, architectures and solutions in
alignment with CTO office guidelines.
- The IT Technical Solutions Architect develops actionable
blueprints, principles, models, designs, standards and guidelines
for assigned projects/initiatives to ensure information technology
architecture is consistent, usable, secure and adds value to the
business.
- The position facilitates design and implementation of flexible,
scalable and cost-effective solutions.
Essential functions:
- Responsible for development and implementation of
cross-functional application design strategy, architecture and
platforms to ensure solutions are optimized for flexibility,
scalability, security and performance.
- Responsible for making software solutions more understandable
and manageable by providing unifying and simplifying concepts
including better work partitioning with decreased and/or more
manageable dependencies.
- Accountable for adhering to corporate architecture standards,
ensuring technology standards and best practices are maintained
across the organization and contributing to corporate architecture
strategy-setting.
- Accountable for shepherding the design solution all the way
through coding, testing and into production, including resolution
of post-production issues.
- Participates in governance processes of new technologies and
solutions to ensure consistent technology life cycle
management.
- Participates in formulating solution estimates and working
planning including determining appropriate task sequencing and
identification of technical skill sets required.
- Builds consensus around principles of application architecture
and interprets and clarifies these principles.
- Participates on project teams contributing input with regard to
technology vision, opportunities and challenges.
- Participates in the evaluation, selection and implementation of
technology solutions including providing detailed analysis of pros
and cons and build vs buy options.
- Develops conceptual, logical and physical application process
and architecture, working closely with other Architects as
needed.
- Maintains operational, architectural and design documentation
including procedures, task lists, and architecture
blueprints.
- Evaluates strengths and flaws in application architecture
including performance, quality, availability, simplicity of design,
security and total cost of ownership.
- Facilitates project handoffs including preparing documentation,
educating and supporting to ensure smooth transitions.
- Establishes and maintains relationships with IT and business
area partners and provides consultation to the BRM and business
teams.
- Troubleshoots, recommends and executes action plans for issue
resolution.
- Selects and designs tools that allow reuse of design components
and patterns between projects.
- Participates in issues resolution by removing barriers and
driving development teams toward a solution.
- Continually works to enhance breadth and depth of knowledge and
experience. Benchmarks technology strategies and architectures.
Monitors and anticipates trends and investigates organizational
objectives and needs. Prepares benchmarking reports and
presentations.
- Promotes implementation of new technology, solutions and
methods to improve business processes, efficiency, effectiveness
and value delivered to customers.
- Develops actual working solutions or prototypes based on their
own designs and resolves any issues that arise.
Requirements:
- Demonstrated proficiency in creating gradually complex
architectural designs.
- Proficiency in consulting, negotiating, communicating,
consensus building, presentation and facilitation.
- Demonstrated ability to learn from mistakes and apply
constructive feedback to improve performance.
- Mastery of a variety of hardware platforms including
mainframes, distributed platforms, desktops, and mobile
devices.
- Experience and understanding of a variety of operating
systems.
- A broad and deep understanding of databases.
- Demonstrated ability to innovate and think beyond established
standards and processes.
- Knowledge of and demonstrated experience applying current and
emerging technology solutions and trends including security and
regulatory industry requirements.
- Demonstrated effective decision-making skills related to
implementing architecture and design.
- Knowledge of Project Management Methodologies.
- In-depth knowledge of development practices of application
technologies.
- In-depth business process knowledge of two or more key business
functional areas.
- Ability to communicate technical information clearly and
articulately.
- Health care industry related experience.
- Experience using Agile methodology.
Technical Skills Requirements:
- Java & Python Language and frameworks
- Knowledge of DevOps Tools such as Git and Jenkins
- Knowledge of Big Data tools such as Apache Hadoop, Apache
Spark, Apache Kafka
- Knowledge of Cloud Architecture concepts
Required Experience:
- 5+ years of related work experience or equivalent combination
of transferable experience in Technology application design and
development
- 2-5 years of work experience designing systems/applications
architecture on progressively complex IT projects.
Required Education:
- Related Bachelor's degree in an IT related field or relevant
work experience
Keywords: Hornet Staffing, Jacksonville , IT Application Architect, Other , Jacksonville, Florida
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