Enterprise Architect-Regulatory Solutions

Job Description

Overall Purpose

This position will ensure that technological solutions align with the business objectives of the company in a consistent manner across operating units and product lines.

Essential Functions

Provide the prescriptive point-solution architectures and guide the descriptive architectures
Ensure the point-solution architectures are in line with the enterprise strategies and principles
Guide the solution and application architects in the creation of architectural decisions and artifacts
Identify cross-product patterns and create reference architectures
Participate in architecting the evolution of infrastructure, frameworks and capabilities of the enterprise data and application platform technologies
Define, measure and disseminate EA metrics and KPI
Work closely with solution architecture to evaluate technologies and vendors
Ensure the solution development, release and operational teams have the proper tools and training for success
Collaborate with business and technology groups to identify the components and flow of the organization
Model the segment architectures to discover patterns, bottlenecks and opportunities for increasing efficiency and reducing waste
Complies with all security policies and procedures, to ensure that the highest level of system and data confidentiality, integrity and availability is maintained

Skills & Responsibilities

Required Experience

Minimum Qualifications

Education and experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor’s in Information Systems, Engineering or related field
Ten years of experience in a technology role, including three years as an Enterprise Architect
Technical expert with multiple years of experience leading architecture definition, detail designs, testing, and development in multiple languages (certification or extensive documented experience)
Professional interpersonal skills along with excellent verbal and written communication skills

Enterprise Architecture Toolkits:
- TOGAF, Zachman and PEAF frameworks
- ITIL or PEFF
Architecture and Technology Considerations:
- High-performance, distributed, massively scalable and highly available architectures
- JVM-based technologies with some integration to .Net and legacy technologies
- Domain-Driven Design
- Domain Specific Languages and frameworks
- Semantic web modeling/programming
- Streaming analytics
- noSQL & "Big Data" solutions like Cassandra, Hadoop, Hive, Solr, GigaSpaces and graph DBs
- SOA/ESB (JBoss)
- Other JVM-based languages – e.g. Groovy, Scala, Clojure
Approved background and drug screen is required

Preferred Qualifications

TOGAF, FEAC or other EA certification
Additional related education and/or experience preferred

Physical Requirements

Working conditions consist of a normal office environment. Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours. Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling and reaching. Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently. Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers. Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers.

Employee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire

The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow instructions and perform other related duties as assigned by their supervisor.

Early Warning Services is an equal opportunity employer.