Enterprise Architect

XTGlobal is driven by our principles of commitment, quality and client satisfaction. It is from these principles that our technology solutions are constantly evolving, allowing us to continually drive best-in-class innovations across our entire client base. We are committed to maintaining our position as an invaluable long-term resource for our clients, and look forward to leveraging our passion and enthusiasm as we continue to envision and develop business-driving technology solutions and services.

Enterprise Architect
Location San Antonio TX
Zip Code 78201

Position Summary
The Enterprise Architect is responsible for understanding the company's key business objectives, evolving technology strategy and architecting enterprise wide solutions. The EA provides oversight to various geographical distributed teams and organizational leadership in all areas of technology. The EA will serve as a technical advisor and subject matter expert on the effective use of technology in developing business solutions that meet the needs of clients and customers.

While the EA will have experience in multiple architecture domains, application architecture, and specifically, eCommerce / Web to print based solutions will be a key focus area for this role.

Education & Knowledge Required

• Four-year degree in Computer Science or related field with proven business acumen

• Working knowledge of EA Frameworks (Zachman, TOGAF, Gartner EA, etc)

• Solid understanding of Enterprise Patterns (Applications and Integration) and Objected Oriented Analysis and Design / Development

Experience / Skills / Abilities Required

• 8-10 years in Information Technology disciplines with 4-5 years’ experience in architecting enterprise solutions

• Self-starter requiring minimal to no direct supervision

• Proven track record of implementing and actively managing fundamental architectural frameworks, methodologies and architectures

• Proven ability to understand business objectives and translate into both conceptual architecture and project level deliverables

• Professional and strong communication skills.
Communicates appropriately to audiences verbally and in writing; keeps people informed; adapts communication style to the needs of the audience

• Ability to analyze business operations and processes to understand their relationships, and drive business process optimization

• Experience with large-scale high-volume application design, development and deployment for supply chain, B2B, and B2C operations

• Implementation experience with enterprise level clustering, load balancing, fail-over, scalability and performance tuning

• Detailed knowledge in B2B and B2C eCommerce, with expertise in at least 1 major eCommerce Framework (Oracle ATG, Websphere Commerce or related)

• Detailed knowledge of J2EE and .NET Platforms

• Detailed knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

• Experience designing and developing EDI solutions including translation, mapping and integration

• Integration experience with large scale enterprise applications (examples: SAP, Oracle or Related as well as EAI frameworks like Web Methods)

• Database (DB2, Oracle and SQL Server) product knowledge including transaction management, SQL programming, schema design and JDBC

• Experience with XmPie, Adobe Indesign Server or related Composition Engines is highly desired

Key Duties / Responsibilities

• Serves as technology lead and liaison to the business in developing and linking technical solutions to company requirements, goals, objectives, with emphasis on driving to an Enterprise technical strategy and achieving a positive ROI

• Technical advisor and subject matter expert on the effective use of technology in developing business solutions that meet the needs of clients and customers.

• Consults with the core processes and business units of the Company on effective approaches to interfacing/integrating with client technology systems

• Defines and documents technical environment and deployment methodologies to enable integrated solutions.

• Advises IT and other business processes regarding the feasibility of proposed approaches to project solutions in…