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Enterprise Architect

Stride, Inc.

Richmond, Virginia

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JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analysis Skills, Application Framework, Architectural Design, Architectural Services, Background Investigation, Business Architecture, Business Model, Business Process Management, Business Processes, Business Skills, Business Solutions, Business Strategy, Cloud Architecture, Communication Skills, Compensation and Benefits, Consulting, Data Modeling, Enterprise Architecture, Industry/Trade Analysis, Information Architecture, Information Technology & Information Systems, Java, Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE/J2EE), Large-Scale Systems, Maintain Compliance, Metadata, Metadata Identification, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Windows Azure, Microsoft Word, Performance Analysis, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Process Analysis, Process Modeling, Product Testing, Service-Oriented Architecture (fka Distributed Object Architecture), Software Development, Strategic Planning, Team Player, Technical Strategy, Willing to Travel, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Richmond, Virginia
POSTED
5 days ago
Job Description
SUMMARY: The Enterprise Architect provides direction, guidance and definition to create and ensure that architectures (people, process, and technology) are aligned to effectively enable the business and technology strategy. This position enables the Enterprise Architecture team to bridge the facets between business architecture (process, technology and organization models) with a specific focus on information architecture disciplines (enterprise data, meta-data, identification of enterprise data services models).
Essential Functions, Duties and Responsibilities: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
  • Leverages expertise in broad disciplines to define future state and drive execution;
  • Is responsible for standards, architectural and process with regards to the overall technical architecture
  • Develops high-level business and applications architectures that depict the current and target architecture of aspects of the technical portfolio;
  • Creates roadmaps that prescribe a stepwise path to the target architecture;
  • Defines high level costs, benefits and schedule estimates associated to the roadmap;
  • Interfaces across multiple business areas to coordinate deliverables, build consensus and influence outcomes;
  • Resolves conflicting business requirements through enterprise perspective;
  • Consults on highly complex projects requiring in-depth knowledge across multiple business areas;
  • Shapes the design architecture based on strategic business and operating models;
  • Directly participates in the development of principles, strategies, frameworks, and standards;
  • Ensures compliance of principles, strategies, frameworks and standards across the enterprise;
  • Monitors and reports on project compliance and alignment to overall strategy;
  • Liaises with engineers and technology experts to ascertain system functional capacity, constraints and support lifecycles.

Supervisory Responsibilities:This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.

Certificates and Licenses: None required.

Minimum Required Qualifications:
  • Five (5) to ten (10) years of development, implementation, or maintenance of large-scale systems across multiple hardware and software platforms
  • Equivalent combination of education and experience

OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Expertise in process modeling, analysis and decomposition, rule definition and management, process performance analysis and measurement.
  • Experience driving cloud-based architectures (AWS, Azure, Google)
  • Exemplary oral and written communication skills including meeting facilitation and presentation
  • Effective collaboration skills with ability to interface with all levels of management and staff
  • In-depth understanding of enterprise architecture standards and the demonstrated ability to advocate and enforce their use
  • Critical and practical thinking - ability to balance financial, architectural, business and IT objectives
  • Command in all major architectural domains (application, information, technology infrastructure, integration, business)
  • Knowledge and understanding of prevailing development methodologies
  • Understanding of common application development frameworks (.NET, Java/J2EE)
  • Solid command of common architectures (web, client-server, real-time integration, SOA, BPM)
  • Integral experience with business projects in determining and driving process, technology and organizational changes/impacts
  • Proven problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to apply business judgment to complex problems and make decisions
  • Knowledge and understanding of the business implications of introducing (or displacing) solutions
  • Experience with driving product selection and evaluation; build vs. buy concept
  • Strong understanding of data/information architecture concepts and patterns
  • Broad-based knowledge of the IT industry and trends
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project
  • Ability to pass required background check

DESIRED Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree
  • AWS Certified Solution Architect or equivalent certification

Compensation & Benefits: Stride, Inc. considers a person's education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position's work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee's salary level. Salaries will differ ba

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