IT Solution Architect

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The IT Solutions Architect II is a career professional with knowledge of analytic principles, practices, concepts, and theories or IT Architectural designs. Ensures new solutions fit into the existing enterprise architecture from the technical, business and user perspectives. The Solution Architect is responsible for clearly communicating the technical aspects, risks, challenges, and benefits of the solution. The Solution Architect aids in the development of IT policies and standards.

Key Responsibilities

- Champions a corporate culture that emphasizes transparency, integrity, safety, environmental responsibility, employee development, diversity and inclusion, customer service, and operational excellence.

- Responsible for leading and/or supporting Enterprise Architect activities for creating deliverables that guide the development of a portfolio of solutions.

- Provides assistance in the establishment of an IT Architecture practice, and the adoption of an architecture and standards methodology.

- Directly assists in the development of a solutions architecture program including departmental roadmaps and project portfolios for IT systems architecture.

- Provides the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks related to the development of an enterprise's solutions architecture.

- Support solutions that include systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services.

Qualifications

Required Education, Skills & Experience

- Bachelor’s degree (Computer Science, Information Systems preferred)

- Minimum of 5 - 7 years of related experience on IT Architectural Role including technical architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or operations

- Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.

- Strong knowledge of leading practices for their practice area

- Good understanding of strategic and new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models.

- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex results to technical and non-technical audiences

- Proficient at functioning effectively within a team environment, present ideas and opinions in a respective and collegial manner

- Strong customer focus and employee experience mindset

Key Competencies

BEHAVIORAL

- Balances stakeholders

- Builds effective teams

- Business insight

- Communicates effectively

- Courage

- Demonstrates self-awareness

- Drives Results

- Drives vision and purpose

- Ensures Accountability

- Instills trust

- Nimble learning

- Plans and Aligns

- Safety

- Strategic mindset

TECHNICAL

- Analytical skills

- Compliance

- Computer Skills

- Business Partnering

- Application Development

- Architecture

- Business Requirements Analysis

- Database Administration

- Hardware Management

- IT Data Management

- IT Implementation and integration

- IT Support

- Network/IT Security

May perform other duties as assigned.

Salary dependent on experience, skills, education, and training.