Senior Solutions Architect-Philadelphia, PA

Senior Solutions Architect

Location:

Philadelphia, PA Salary: $130k/yr. Position Type:
Full time Interview Process:
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Core Responsibilities:

• Access the technology landscape and identify critical deficiencies. Recommend solutions for improvement.
• Establish, define, maintain and communicate guidelines, principles, standards and best practices across all ERP systems architectures.
• Provide technical leadership for solution architecture management with key focus in the areas of systems design, integration, security and management.
• Collaborate with Comcast development, security, and support organizations to establish reusable frameworks and govern adoption/usage.
• Serves as the subject matter expert in SOA concepts and strategies and lead the ongoing efforts to mature our integration solution portfolio.
• Serves as the subject matter expert in approaches and best practices that enable the development or transformation of internal solutions to externally managed, cloud-based technologies.
• Understand, advocate and augment the architecture principles within the software suite leveraged by ERP, while ensuring alignment to support forward looking business and technology strategies.
• Analyze enterprise business trends and developing strategies to derive future state integration architecture for ERP Services.
• Drive and influence the successful implementation of strategic architectures.

Job Specification:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field. Combinations of relevant education, certifications, and experience may be considered in lieu of a degree. Continuous learning, as defined by Comcast's learning philosophy, is required. Certification or progress toward certification is highly preferred and encouraged.
• 5-8 years of progressive responsibility in an IT environment with demonstrated technical knowledge which provides the necessary skills, knowledge and abilities.
• 5-8 years related experience planning, designing, delivering, and improving platforms, services, and customer experience with technology solutions or innovations.
• 3-5 years relevant experience with enterprise-wide integration architecture required. Additionally, this position requires demonstrated knowledge and expertise in a broad range of information technology applications and infrastructures, as well as knowledge of how these technologies can be leveraged to solve business needs.

Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:

• Clear understanding of commonly used development, operations, and architecture guiding principles and best practices.
• Experience with related industry frameworks and methodologies including waterfall, iterative, agile, SCRUM, and ITIL.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with presentation experience.
• Ability to work as a collaborative member of a team while also being comfortable in leading a work initiative when directed to do so.
• Ability to set strategic architectural direction in integration technologies.
• Deep knowledge in service oriented architecture frameworks, standards and tools.
• Recent working knowledge for design, configuration and management of one or more application development platforms and frameworks including Weblogic, JBOSS,.NET, AJAX, .NET, REST, Perl, HTML5, and Objective-C.
• Recent knowledge of business and systems flows within ERP environments, a plus.
• A clear understanding of the architecture standards and best practices surrounding integration technologies
• A clear understanding of the security considerations and implications surrounding SOA and architectures and security frameworks used to mobile-enable business functions within the organization.
• Ability to determine the architectural implications from requirements that might impact other application ecosystems.
• Ability to breakdown requirements into project estimates and determine timelines and dependencies with the other domains/ projects.
• Ability to manage small work teams with experience in one or more project management tools.
• Clear understanding of ongoing and planned projects and their interdependencies/timelines.