Architect Specialist

Dearborn, Michigan Architect Specialist #1047960

Job Description

• Translate desired business capabilities into solution concepts and models and their requirements (functional and technical).
• Design strategies, technology patterns and service structures.
• Be accountable for architecture and information management guidance and governance processes.
• Describe and evaluate opportunities for enterprise information and process integration, select implementation strategies, and define required technology mechanisms. Applies to: enterprise level, portfolio level.
• Compile, develop and align architectural models of current and proposed capabilities across the enterprise to support strategy and investment decisions, portfolio management, program and project management, solution and service design and development and service management. Applies to: enterprise level, portfolio level, program/project level, technology level.
• Drive information integration, information standards, and information management through capability and value analysis and assessment. Applies to: enterprise level, portfolio level, program/project level.
• Deliver architecture artefacts to solution, service and technology delivery initiatives, programs and projects (business, information, data, process, solution, application, service, technology, infrastructure architectures).
• Set architecture and design direction (technologies, patterns, design principles, development frameworks) in cooperation with project management and system design/development. Applies to: program/project level.

• Provide direction and support to project teams by translating business capabilities into well-defined projects/programs with clear objectives and deliverables.
• Visualize and communicate architecture concepts, principles, strategies, and models for programs, initiatives, and domains.
• Facilitate architecture discussions with cross-functional business sponsors and product lines to ensure alignment.
• Participate as a member or facilitator in relevant business/IT governance processes.
• Ensure alignment between architecture projects and standards and related IT projects and plans by working with appropriate IT and business management.
• Develop recommendations to improve the business value of IT projects and plans.
• Set direction and approve future state architecture standards, guidelines, blueprints, and roadmaps for/across business functions.
• Drive architecture-related research to mature architecture standards, guidelines, blueprints, and roadmaps.
• Direct and approve innovations and/or prototypes based on research and approve recommendations on architecture, tools, methodologies, and/or processes.
• Facilitate architecture governance and ensure adherence to architecture standards.
• Obtain buy-in for architecture standards, guidelines, blueprints, and roadmaps from appropriate business and IT leaders.
• Promote benefits and value of architecture and architecture management to the business and IT senior management.
• Provide guidance on strategy and planning in support of overall prioritization and portfolio planning.

• Skills Required:
  
  Solution Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Google Cloud Platform
• Skills Preferred:
  Tekton, API, Python, Java
• Experience
  
  Required:
  
  Specialist Exp: 10+ yrs in IT; 4+ yrs in concentration
• Experience Preferred: 4+ yrs concentration working in Google Cloud Platform; 4+ yrs concentration working in a Solution Architecture role
• Education Required:
  
  Bachelor's Degree

At Fast Tek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Doing the right thing is our mantra. We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way. We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years!

Fast Tek Global is a financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused. We differentiate ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. We work with Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies. Our…