Associate IT Architect

Associate IT Architect

Join us as an Associate IT Architect to provide targeted support to key IT projects and align with the overall architecture direction and strategy.

• Provides design services, ensuring adherence to departmental policies and procedures.
• Coordinates and defines requirements (i.e., design, configure, install, etc.).
• Performs architecture and engineering tasks of various complexities.
• Coordinates and participates in assigned projects, following the project from beginning to end, ensuring that the project continually supports the attainment of corporate goals and is completed in a timely, accurate, and quality manner.
• Implements designs by writing scripts, configuring systems, servers, cloud resources, including testing, and debugging.
• Analyzes network, application and system requirements and produces efficient, secure, reliable, and cost-effective designs.
• Utilizes best practices for application engineering, component reuse, architecture design and technical standards, while maintaining an awareness of new/emerging technologies and their potential application to existing service offerings.
• Monitors trends in documented incidents and determines appropriate actions necessary to eliminate future occurrences and improve customer service levels in an appropriate time frame.
• Applies architecture and engineering theories, methods and techniques to solve both process and technical challenges.
• Partners with engineering and operations teams to coach, mentor and train staff on new technologies.
• Assists with the implementation of new technologies/designs as needed.
• Works with cross‑functional teams across the development organization to ensure end‑to‑end technical and business viability.
• Creates solutions that answer current business needs and are scalable for future requests.
• Collaborates with the Chief and Data architects to establish a consistent and effective application development environment.
• Performs capacity analysis and planning of holistic enterprise datasets.
• Troubleshoots escalated issues across the entire stack: server, network, application, database, hardware.
• Researches opportunities to improve the effectiveness of applications and systems.
• Maintains, communicates and enforces guidelines for industry recognized best practices of all aspects of data and application development efforts.
• Performs other duties as assigned and modified at manager’s discretion.

• General knowledge of systems, network and security architecture technical domains.
• Understanding of architectural solutions to address functional and non‑functional requirements, and hands‑on experience implementing technical solutions.
• Understanding that the architectural vision for the enterprise transcends the scope of individual projects or efforts.
• Ability to influence and recommend a course of action to team members and management.
• Largely self‑directed; may provide direction to individuals or small teams (