Senior Architect

Overview

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Responsible for architecture, design and building of Strategic Data Initiatives that with enterprise scope. The Senior Architect will lead the strategic data initiatives with solutioning of platform capabilities and design/ building of Modern Data Platform with unified & integrated ecosystem of Advanced Analytics, AI and Modeling capabilities for on-prem and cloud to enable broader data uses and various business use cases.

Aids in developing a technology strategy and ensures the solutions comply with applicable standards. This role advocates and advances modern, agile solution delivery practices and evangelizes open, modular design standards and engineering practices. Senior architect works closely with enterprise architecture, platform architecture, information architecture, and governance teams to design an end-to-end data solution, document requirements and, when needed, define end user proofs of concept to test the architectures, usage models and corresponding technologies in testbed or real end user environments.

They also work with end users and ecosystem partners to deploy those solutions in early adopter production environments.

• Works across the business, operations and technology to create the solution intent and architectural vision for complex solutions and prioritize functional and non-functional requirements into a technology backlog to enable the technology roadmap and functionality to support evolving capabilities and services
• Contributes to the creation of the architecture roadmap of defined domains (Business, Application, Data, and Technology) in support of the product roadmap and the development of best practices including standardized templates
• Clarifies the architecture, assists with system design to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments
• Facilitates solution driven discussions, leads the design of complex architectures, and finds creative solutions through knowledge of domain, practical experiments, and proof of concepts while ensuring architecture is flexible, modular, and adaptable
• Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions
• Supports the team as needed to select the technology stack required for solutions and helps select preferred technology products
• Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements are sufficiently met (for example, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability)
• Responsible for understanding emerging and evolving end user usage models and requirements in Big Data and Analytics, documenting those usage models and business, technical and user requirements and designing solutions to meet those requirements and specifying an implementation HW and SW solution stack that works seamlessly OnPrem and Cloud and enables self-service capabilities for technical and line of business users.

• 8+ years of technical architecture and solutions experience including 5+ years of in a combination of relevant Big Data/Analytics areas including: 6+ years of hands-on experience in software…