Understand business needs and suggest solutions to problems and translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all architecture design and analysis work.
Develop, document, make recommendations, and communicate plans for investing in application infrastructure, including analysis of cost reduction opportunities.
Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to help management assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT.
Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes.
Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of solutions and/or integration architecture across business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, business requirements and enterprise standards.
Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution and/or integration development across including applications, technologies, processes and information.
Creates reference architectures focused on detailed design principles, decision points, detailed APIs, major systems and dependencies between business and IT; documents As-Is and Target Architectures
Analyzes the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical risks, and recommends solutions for improvement.
Participates in the governance activities associated with ensuring architecture assurance and compliance; participates in definition of the principles, guidelines, and standards to ensure solution and/or integration decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
Supports system managers in end-of-life system decisions to maintain, refresh or retire systems or technologies. Develops a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from future to current state.
Works closely with the PMO to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the project or product lifecycle and with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify projects to accommodate the solutions architecture.
Partner by working collaboratively throughout the EA team to develop, document and maintain current and strategic cross-capability roadmaps, principles, standards models, patterns, and reference architectures.
Add / manage technology stack and recommend system upgrades.
Contribute to EA standards, data architecture standards, EA governance frameworks, and system integration standards.
Develop and maintain the technology stack to include commercial integration platforms (could be expanded to manage the Technology stack).
Provide expert advice to project teams on use of integration technology, data architecture and modeling, system architecture including integration best practices.
Provide oversight in standards adherence through reviews of project work including detailed technical specifications and application code.
Work with project teams in definition of requirements for integration strategies of their projects into the Enterprise Architecture.
Partner with leaders of other disciplines to ensure proposed solutions align with information, technology, infrastructure, business, and security architectures.
