IT Integration Architect

Overview

Responsibilities

• Works with the business to strategically align IT projects and initiatives with the business area goals.
• Takes the lead on issues requiring coordination with all internal IT groups and other organizations, including vendors to ensure that issues are addressed. Directs team members as required for resolution.
• Leads planning and evaluation of application roadmaps with respects to upgrades, vendor product lifecycles, and functional enhancements for vendor and interlay developed applications.
• Collaborates with peers; researches, establishes and updates technical standards; manages application development lifecycle and methodologies, provides oversight on processes and other governance responsibilities.
• Develops effective business relationships and manages and maintains open and effective communications with all stakeholders.
• Provides direction on all issues requiring coordination with all internal IT groups and other organizations, including vendors to ensure that issues are addressed.
• Manages vendor resources to deliver high quality deliverables according to agreed upon timeframes and costs.
• Leads and manages team in the development of new/enhanced IT products from project initiation through user acceptance and implementation including planning, requirements gathering, business analysis, design, development (coding, configuration, customization), testing, training, and implementation. IT products include new custom applications, major enhancements to existing systems or vendor packaged applications, any of which may be enterprise-scale affecting multiple companies and departments and integrating with multiple systems. Develops transition plan for project responsibilities to a long-term support structure after project implementation.
• Monitors all aspects of the project life-cycle including the business analysis and legacy data conversion phases of a project to ensure strategic business and ITs project management, functional, compliance, and cost management goals and KPIs are met. Lifecycles may be traditional Waterfall/System Development Lifecycle, Agile or other approved methodologies.
• Develops staff as needed; researches/provides recommendation on technical training, evaluates/provides feedback for skill development of junior technical staff.
• Ensures alignment of technology solutions with IT standards, documentation requirements and guiding principles. Ensures supportability, scalability, maintainability, reliability, data security, cost efficiency and alignment across IT domains including IT Systems Delivery and IT Engineering & Operations.
• Manage projects including but not limited to resources, scope, budget (costs), schedule & overall project plans.
• Monitors the IT & business industry as well as best practices; develops strategies for implementation. Communicates & influences strategic direction & can represent IT at senior executive level.
• Create reusable standards & patterns (e.g., reference architecture).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in IT, computer science, business administration, engineering or decision sciences including mathematics, analytics, quantitative methods. and a minimum of 8 years experience designing, developing, implementing, and operating technologies in one or more IT domains, e.g. applications, data, solution, infrastructure, process change management. or
• Master's Degree in IT, computer science, business administration, engineering or decision sciences including mathematics, analytics, quantitative methods. and a minimum of 6 years experience designing, developing, implementing, and operating technologies in one or more IT domains, e.g. applications, data, solution, infrastructure, process change management.

• Master's Degree preferably in IT, computer science, business administration, engineering or decision sciences including mathematics, analytics, quantitative methods. and a minimum of 8 years experience designing, developing, implementing, and operating technologies in one or more IT domains, e.g. applications, data, solution, infrastructure, process change management.

• A minimum of three (3) years leadership or managerial experience. Required
• Must have a solid understanding of architectural concepts and practices leading to solutions that are reliable, maintainable, reusable, scalable and extensible, e.g. service oriented architectures. Required
• Excellent oral and written communication including creating PowerPoint presentations. Must be comfortable and skilled at selling new processes and techniques. Must be able to communicate designs and give persuasive presentations. Must be able to interact with all levels of management and communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience. Required
• Candidates must demonstrate that they have strong emotional intelligence (empathy, self-knowledge). Candidates must demonstrate ability to persuade and collaborate through influencing, listening, acting on feedback, balanced exploration of alternatives and building relationships. Candidates must be agile learners and demonstrate continuous self-development. Candidates should demonstrate high energy and a passion for customers. Required
• Ability to work through ambiguity - demonstrate confidence when making difficult decisions, leading through adversity with a focus on the right business outcome. Required
• Experience with writing or modifying standards and procedures, templates or toolkits. Experience working with peers to develop new reference architectures, tools, methods to be adopted by the IT organization. Required
• Ability to work under pressure, manage expectations and conflicts effectively and not get overwhelmed by pressures on team. Required
• Ability to motivate, challenge and develop staff. Required
• Must be flexible and able to work off-hours as required to support deployments, resolve production problems or respond to corporate emergencies. Required
• Manage projects including but not limited to resources, scope, budget (costs), schedule & overall project plans. Required
• Experience identifying and vetting vendor products preferred, including developing requests for proposal, vendor research and proposal evaluation. Experience preferred in planning for vendor technology upgrades or obsolescence management. Preferred
• Experience participating on multi-disciplinary review boards a plus.
• Preferred

• Driver's License Required

• Sit or stand to use a keyboard, mouse, and computer for the duration of the workday

• Must be able to respond to Company emergencies by performing a System Emergency Assignment to restore service to our customers.