Job Title: Enterprise Solutions Architect (Hybrid - 2 Days onsite)
Duration: 12+ Months
Location: Richmond, VA
End-Client: State Of VA
Exp. Required: 15 Years
Looking for candidates who have supported cover 300 applications in their environment-- and a good percentage are home-grown .NET applications-- and there\'s a huge push to move to Azure cloud. So, this person will be supporting multiple different facets within the top 3 skills found above, as they make this push. Details around the push to the cloud:
- Move into Azure cloud, as well as professional cloud environments and take advantage of SaaS solutions (any experience here is a huge plus).
- Architect would be primarily supporting of initiatives around this-- need someone that can jump in and hit the ground running.
- Need someone with an extremely broad portfolio of experience-- could be supporting impact analysis on one application one day, then completing detailed coordinating governance documents on another item the next.
Responsibilities
- Create overall application and solution architectures, component designs, and systems integration and implementations for a particular business solution.
- Create data models and xml schemas at all levels including conceptual, logical, and physical for both relational and dimensional solutions. Models will include objects, entities, attributes, their inter-relationships and dependencies in 3N and/or dimensional formats
- Integrate disparate data models into coherent enterprise data models
- Create data dictionaries and business glossaries to document data lineages, data definitions, and metadata for all business-critical data domains
- Work to identify master data (entities and attributes) and capture how data is interpreted by users in various parts of the organization
- lead efforts in defining, documenting and estimating the following for enterprise applications.
- Capture requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, hardware and operating system environment, on- prem, hybrid and cloud topologies, interfaces with other systems, internal and external checks and controls, system inputs and output.
- collaborate with other IT staff to assess business needs and requirements and translate them into automated solutions
- produce relevant solution design artifacts including but not limited to technical estimates, conceptual, logical and physical system designs, sequence diagrams, and data models
- Will coordinate new system development to ensure it is consistent and well integrated with existing application systems and COTS solutions
- Analyze and estimate feasibility and compatibility with hardware and other programs; and will consult with clients to prototype, architect, and design applications to meet needs.
- Collaborate with Business areas and cross- functional Enterprise Architects to fully understand business needs and provide strategic consultation
- Partner with architects, other technical team members and to develop roadmaps and strategies to support agency KPIs
- Design/Implement Enterprise Security/technology Patterns
- Consult with teams as needed on initiatives and provide tactical direction as well as provide architecture considerations on legacy solutions
Qualifications
- Experience with SAFe architecture and proven work experience with Agile/Scrum teams.
- Proven experience in developing enterprise and solution level architectural designs.
- Proven experience in overseeing the linking of cross-functional applications between disparate business units and systems.
- Experience with business and technical requirements analysis, business process modeling/mapping, methodology development, and data mapping.
- Knowledge of relational database design and management techniques.
- Good project management skills and/or substantial exposure to project-based work structures, project lifecycle models, etc.
- Strong knowledge of system and software quality assurance best practices and methodologies.
- Competency with XML constructs and schemas.
- Confidence and experience with API protocols and schemas such as SOAP and REST.
- Strong understanding of end-user needs and requirements.
- Broad understanding of Data Architecture and Data Management approaches and implementation methodologies
- Ability to work with business as well as IT stakeholders
- experience designing large scale data models for functional, operational and analytical environments
- Demonstrated experience in Conceptual, Logical, Physical and Dimensional Modeling
- Excellent understanding of the organization's goals and objectives.
- Ability to work creatively and analytically in a team environment.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
Requirements
- Broad understanding of Data Architecture and Data Management approaches and implementation methodologies
- Ability to work with business as well as IT stakeholders
- Minimum of 5+ years of experience designing large scale data models for functional, operational and analytical environments
- Demonstrated experience in Conceptual, Logical, Physical and Dimensional Modeling
- Hands-on experience with data modeling tools
- Knowledge of BI tools, such as Power BI, Tableau
- Experience with Agile/Scrum is valuable
- Ability to work creatively and analytically in a team environment
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
- 5+ years of experience as Data Modeler/Data Architect creating data models and working in Data Architecture and Data Management solution