Architect IT

Overview

We are seeking a full-time
Architect IT Applications in our Olathe, KS location. In this role, you will be responsible for identifying and implementing system improvements to Garmin’s Single Sign on System.

We are looking for candidate with experience in designing, implementing and maintaining secure, enterprise-wide authentication solution. Partnering with the product owner to create roadmap for Federation services, integration with SAML/OIDC/OAuth protocols to ensure application is compliant and is meeting security standards. This person will provide technical guidance to engineering teams, evaluate new technologies and troubleshoot complex federation issues within the SSO application.

• Develops technical roadmaps, supports, and enforces adherence to the technical roadmaps and development standards through interacting/collaborating with development teams, functional owners, and internal customers to understand long-term functional vision as well
• Negotiates with the business on prioritizing technical work with new business features; creating a balance between healthy systems and delivering critical business features
• Contributes to, supports, and encourages application development and integration best practices during the SDLC
• Identifies opportunities for improvement and implementing solutions to address those opportunities (e.g. architectural, performance, maintainability, security, scalability, reusability, etc.) within one or more business applications
• Translates, negotiates, and communicates complex architectural and development concepts across development teams and key (often non-technical) stakeholders to meet both architectural and business objectives
• Performs reviews of technical design and code changes for a specific, assigned portion of the overall applications and integrations code base; providing direction and recommendations to application implementation teams and developers as needed
• Recommends technology and development standards to be used on day-to-day feature development
• Ensures utilization of standard development tools, technologies, libraries, and frameworks (e.g. Eclipse, JQuery, Spring, JSF, custom plug-ins, Toad, SQL+, JDeveloper, OBIEE, Informatica, etc.)
• Exercises a significant degree of leadership to projects and programs which contribute directly to organizational objectives
• May lead major development, integration, or application implementation projects consisting of multiple components or sub-projects which require sophisticated project planning
• Identifies and implements opportunities for system improvement around stability, performance and maintainability and evaluates new technologies, features and functions and provides input on broader technology solutions outside of core discipline
• Works with Directors, Managers, Garmin IT Analysts, and Project Managers to determine system wide design impacts and regularly participates in partnering with Garmin IT Architects by participating in vetting new technology solutions
• Assists in validating and communicating detailed Level of Effort estimates for each project
• Attends or participates in applicable professional organizations to bring outside knowledge to Garmin
• Serves as a mentor to less experienced team members (Levels 1, 2 &
  3)
• Develops reliable solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creatively
• Provides on-call responsibilities as required by the team
• Participates in project definition activities including feature analysis and system tradeoffs

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related field
  AND
  a minimum of 9 years relevant experience
  OR
  an equivalent combination of education and experience>
• Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)
• Must possess experience (in years noted above) in developing and architecting scalable n-tier enterprise business applications, defining and implementing application development and integration best practices and processes relevant to Garmin’s business needs
• Must possess excellent leadership skills and the ability to generate…