IT Architect II

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To provide technical and software architectural leadership within the portfolio, program and project teams in support of development initiatives. To provide strong end-to-end leadership in the analysis, design and delivery of solutions/applications and be responsible for ensuring the project team follows design parameters and accepted design methodologies and principles.

• Works with Lead Developer to act as the technical leadership for Developers on the agile teams and defines the software architectural approach and high-level design for the project while working to ensure assigned project goals are met within expected timelines and following Paychex standards. Monitors development in each assigned project team to support compliance with approved technology standards and best practices.
• Collaborates with Project Development teams to analyze, design/enhance and implement mission critical, enterprise-level applications and deliver on portfolio and program objectives.
• Works with Development Managers, Program Managers and Product Managers to ensure program goals are met within expected timelines and include strategic architecture items. This includes the creation and review of project charters to ensure technical feasibility works with the team and to elevate issues to the program or portfolio.
• Creates and develops technology standards for Development projects within Paychex. These standards will be used as a baseline for design evaluations and adoption of technologies across all portfolios. Establishes practices and tools for managing and enforcing consistent security, performance and policies across the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Identifies performance limiting or otherwise problematic software designs and implementation patterns in present systems to improve software performance and design. Creates and maintains technical documentation regarding software architectural standards, best practices and implementation of architectural components.
• Prepares and delivers software architecture and design presentations to project, and program teams to educate and mentor the development organization.
• Works to create and maintain Paychex’s internal and external APIs (Application Program Interfaces).
• Monitors development processes across the application portfolio to support compliance with approved technology standards and best practices.
• Validates project requirements and performs analysis to design solutions which identify and promote enterprise services to ensure a unified client experience as well as eliminate duplicate data and redundant applications.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Development or related discipline
• 10+ years of experience in Designing, building and deploying highly scalable web and/or mobile based enterprise applications.
• Experience in design and development of orchestration/integration components using third‑party middleware technologies
• Experience with loosely coupled architectures or service oriented architectures. Extensive experience with Object Oriented Modeling and Design preferred. Full lifecycle experience designing mission critical, large scale, highly available, scalable software applications.
• React experience - Preferred
• Web components experience - Preferred
• Consulting - Preferred
• Creative Problem Solving - Preferred
• Application Programming Interface (API) - Preferred
• Application Development - Preferred
• Software Engineering - Preferred
• Applications Architecture -…