Doozer Software’s IT staffing division is currently assisting one of our clients in a search for a Sr. Software Solutions Architect.  This Architect will be responsible for the overall software development life-cycle and technology solutions across the enterprise.  The position will assist the company in aligning their technology solutions to business needs while following their enterprise architectural standards.

Responsibilities

• Manages end to end - from conception, through delivery, into production of solution architectures
• Partners with business and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions
• Leads the design and modeling of tactical architectures for delivery, development, and support of projects
• Designs both the physical and logical components of solution architectures that will deliver a positive business outcome
• Collaborates with other domain architects to provide a consensus based scalable and adaptable architectural solution
• Responsible for technical analysis and design capabilities
• Facilitates technology design workshops for emerging technologies
• Validates designs produced by third-party vendors wishing to sell solutions to the organization
• Aligns IT strategy and planning with the company’s business goals and objectives
• Promotes the use of a shared infrastructure and application roadmap to reduce costs and improve how information flows
• Circulates roadmaps to align information technology priorities with business partner requirements and strategies
• Builds and maintains technical trusted advisor relationships with influential technical decision makers within Technology

Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field and four (4) years of solutions architecture experience
• OR a high school diploma or GED and six (6) years solutions architecture experience
• Experience of N-tier architectures and complex design architectures
• Experience with technical, application and information architecture delivery techniques and methodologies
• Certifications in the technology domain of the enterprise
• Experience with Agile methods, skills and competencies

• Understanding the technology of the organization, e.g. Middleware, .NET, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Oracle, etc.
• Awareness and ability to document designs using internal and external notational standards (Business Process Model and Notation {BPMN}, Unified Modeling Language {UML})
• Working knowledge of modern Operating Systems (Linux/Windows), Networking, Servers/Mainframe, Secure Coding Practices, Development Environments (Java/.Net), Databases (DB2/Oracle/SQL Server)
• An understanding of, and ability to use design patterns to steer business requirements into enterprise wide technical strategies
• Knowledge of security design techniques
• Demonstrate ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly