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ID #15460021
State Illinois
City Chicago
Job type Contract
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source Signature Consultants
Showed 2021-06-15
Date 2021-06-15
Deadline 2021-08-14
Category Et cetera
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Enterprise Architect

Illinois, Chicago, 60603 Chicago USA

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Job Summary:

Signature Consultants is seeking an Enterprise Architect for an opportunity with a client located in Chicago, IL.

This initiative is focused on assisting our continuous improvement of our Enterprise Architecture practice. As part of our IT strategy we are looking at opportunities to better manage our application and infrastructure portfolios and find opportunities to simplify and modernize our technology footprint. This work will be focused initially on helping establish an Application Portfolio Management process and framework and then working with chief architects across IT to rollout the framework. This will then be used to drive application rationalization and layout a roadmap for modernization.

This position is responsible for providing internal IT solutions consulting to ensure optimal outcomes for our Lines of Business from our IT teams. The consulting engagements are generally complex and cross-business unit in nature providing enabling teams to develop business cases, define the solution architecture and select appropriate vendors and solutions. A key focus in our enterprise architecture practice is to reduce the complexity of IT. The ideal candidate would have a strong IT cross-functional background and experience in management consulting with financial services firms.

Experience Level:

  • Mid Level: 5-7 years post relevant degree; experience of broad enterprise architecture

Qualifications:

  • Individual contributor, a self-starter with excellent communication skills (both oral and written), story-telling, visual design, and PowerPoint skills
  • Diverse problem-solving experience and ability to analyze problems using data-driven approaches across technology areas
  • Passion for technology and understanding of key industry trends and emerging technologies such as cloud, advanced analytics, RPA, intelligent automation etc
  • Person should have skills in translating broad strategic intent into tactical plans and directions to enable delivery
  • Ideal candidate will have familiarity with enterprise architecture fundamentals
  • Business architecture - mapping strategy to execution - e.g. business capability mapping
  • Systems and technical architecture - integration patterns, evolution to cloud architectures
  • Data architecture - understand business intelligence / analytics and data as a service models

Nice to Haves:

  • Experience of management consulting
  • Support large, multi-year strategic technology initiatives, and work effectively with business and technology stakeholders to deliver outcomes
  • Enterprise architecture certification (e.g. TOGAF)

Tasks and Responsibilities:

  • Provide enterprise architecture consulting to new projects as required
  • Support evolution of business architecture practice
  • Understand and find opportunities to improve our core IT data sets (e.g. CMDB)
  • Establish Application Portfolio Management framework with chief architects
  • Define application and infrastructure portfolios
  • Define process to assess disposition of the applications in portfolios (e.g. which applications need to be modernized or retired)
  • Facilitate process to capture the disposition of all applications

About Signature Consultants, LLC

Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Signature Consultants was established in 1997 with a singular focus: to provide clients and consultants with superior staffing solutions. For the ninth consecutive year, Signature was voted as one of the "Best Staffing Firms to Work For" and is now the 14th largest IT staffing firm in the United States (source: Staffing Industry Analysts). With 28 locations throughout North America, Signature annually deploys thousands of consultants to support, run, and manage their clients' technology needs. Signature offers IT staffing, consulting, managed solutions, and direct placement services. For more information on the company, please visit www.sigconsult.com. Signature Consultants is the parent company to Hunter Hollis and Madison Gunn.

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Signature Consultants is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Signature will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department at or

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