Title: Enterprise / Platform Architect
Location: Richmond, VA
Duration: 12 Months
Interview: Both Webcam and In Person Interview
Job Description
Seeking an enterprise/platform architect to join the Enterprise Architecture team. This individual will work with key members to balance and prioritize current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer-term strategic vision of the organization. Furthermore the enterprise/platform architect provides technology guidance, road maps, principles, standards, and best practices.
Responsibilities
- Provides direction, guidance, and definition of IT Platform architecture to effectively support IT and business strategy.
- Supports all architectural disciplines and champions architectural initiatives.
- Reviews existing business processes and establishes metrics to improve business processes, as well as support of all architectural disciplines under their direction.
- Works on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized architecture domains.
- Aligns architecture strategy with business goals.
- Defines, explains, and advocates technology strategy.
- Develops and communicates architectural policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
- Promotes the EA process, outcomes, and results to the organization and senior leadership.
- Reviews and/or analyzes and develops architectural requirements as needed for the organization.
- Ensures the conceptual completeness of the technical solutions.
- Leads teams in developing technology plans.
- Consults with project teams to fit projects to enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.
- Ensures recommendations are based on business relevance, appropriate timing, and deployment.
- Collaborates with project management and IT leaders to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with project goals and requirements.
- Preferred experience includes Esri’s GIS tools and platform.