Senior IT Architect and Delivery Lead

Job Overview:

The Senior IT Architect will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the cloud delivery team’s IT infrastructure to support the holistic development and management of assigned projects and programs.

This role requires a deep understanding of IT systems, architecture frameworks, and best practices as well as projects, products, systems, shared infrastructure services, and shared application services. The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with strong technical expertise and the ability to lead complex projects to support the development of technology solutions that align with architectural governance and standards.

Scope of Activities:

The Sr. IT Architect will demonstrate competencies across four key dimensions:

1. Translates Business Strategy into Solutions Architecture

Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and

determines corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive

the organization's targeted business outcomes.

Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and the practical application of

existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and

operating models.

Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and creates and maintains architectural documentation, including blueprints, roadmaps, and diagrams.

Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs

to help the architecture review board (ARB) assess the impact of new and ongoing

technology investment on the business and IT estate.

Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms and vendor offerings to

drive targeted business outcomes.

2. Leads Solutions Design and Analysis

Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a solutions architecture

across a group of specific business applications or technologies as well as providing guidance and mentorship to the IT teams in those applications.

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Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across

products, services, projects, and systems (including applications, technologies, processes

and information).

Creates reference architectures focused on detailed design principles, decision points,

detailed APIs, major systems and dependencies between business and IT.

Manages and develops the architecture for a broader scope of projects or products,

working closely with application architects that manage and design architecture for a

single project or product or initiative.

Analyzes the business-IT environment (run, grow and transform the business) to detect

critical deficiencies, legacy and technical debt, and recommends solutions for

improvement (systems of record, differentiation and innovation).

Experience in leading and successfully implementing architecture for large complex solutions

3. Orchestrates Technology Delivery

Designs and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring solutions

architecture assurance and compliance.

Defines the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution

decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.

Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as

well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.

Supports EOL (end of life) product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire products, services or systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information).

Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the

technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business direction.

Identifies the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures or culture) and financial impact of the solutions architecture.

Ensure IT systems and infrastructure comply with industry standards and regulatory requirements to support robust security measures that protect agency data and systems as well as conduct regular related security assessments and audits.

4. Facilitates and Collaborates to Deliver Outcomes

Communicates complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders effectively to

ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the

project or product lifecycle.

Ensures a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.

Provides consulting support to application architects within teams to ensure the

project or product is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.

Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify projects to accommodate the architecture.

Required Credentials and Experience:

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in computer science, information-technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience

Minimum of ten years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines,

including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application

development, middleware, database management or cloud development

Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms and processing environments as well as proficiency in software development methodologies, tools, and emerging trends.

Strong knowledge of cloud computing, virtualization, networking, and security.

Excellent analytical, decision making, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Preferred Credentials and Experience:

Experience working in a relevant industry

Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies and roadmaps

Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences

Relevant certifications and training

Skills:

Knowledge of various development languages including Java/JavaScript, HTML, and React

Knowledge of various database technologies like Cosmos, MySQL, MongoDB and Oracle

Knowledge of various aspects of an enterprise technology architecture like business,

information, data, network and security

Understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as

waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize

and stabilize, and DevOps)

Excellent understanding of application development methodologies and infrastructure and

network architecture

Ability to work with developers in an in-and-out outsourced environment

Estimated Duration

07/02/2024 - 06/30/2026

Benefits:

Health, Dental, Vision, 401K

ABOUT ESG CONSULTING:

ESG Consulting is an award-winning national provider of diversified information technology consulting services to Fortune 1000, public sector entities, and emerging growth firms nationwide.

Founded in 1986, ESG offers more than 29 years of experience in the IT staffing, Engineering and consulting industry. While local to Atlanta we are headquartered in Santa Clara, we have opened offices nationwide and to this day are consistently re- evaluating and expanding our service offerings and geographic capabilities. Today, we serve most major metropolitan markets.

ESG is an equal opportunity company. Our flexible management culture believes in creating a business environment that fosters personal and professional growth and achievement. We make ESG a place where people are treated not as employees but as "partners".