Solution Architect

I. Essential Responsibilities 1. Deliver well-architected end-to-end solutions for various major/complex initiatives across business domains with a cloud-native/API-first mentality ensuring that all business requirements are met aligning with the business growth strategy and that the solution is resilient, performant, secure, and future-proof while meeting all standards and best practices 2. Define target state architectures for programs, transformation initiatives, architecture domains, and modernization efforts, where required, including analysis of build-vs-buy scenarios, reasonable options for short-term vs longer-term timeframes, and reduction of technical debt 3. Provide architecture oversight and direction to 2 scrum teams (approximately 15-20 people) through review and approval of detailed designs ensuring they are in line with the solution architecture and both business and IT strategies 4. Provide solutions that look to deliver reusable capabilities and reuse as much as possible themselves 5. Govern and control changes to architecture through alignment to standards, design approaches, architecture documentation, and governance 6. Provide mentoring and thought leadership to the broader organization with respect to architecture education, evangelization, and innovation through deep collaboration across numerous forums 7. Mature the architecture practice through delivery of standards, patterns, templates, and best practices as well as maximal leverage of an architecture repository 8. Research new technologies and present proposals to management on technologies that would solve problems in the current state and/or provide value-added capabilities to the organization 9. Partner with architects, business stakeholders, delivery team, peers, and SMEs to become knowledgeable about the current state of the technology portfolio 10. Timely and accurate reporting to IT leadership 11. Other projects or assignments as determined by supervisor