What are the responsibilities and job description for the Solution Architect-Marketing - Remote / Telecommute position at CYNET SYSTEMS?
Job Description:
Pay Range $75hr - $80hr
Responsibilities:
Interfaces with Business Relationship Managers and Systems Architects, providing technical and functional expertise to provide vision, oversight and coordination across portfolio of technical solutions being developed in a business capability domain.
Develops, maintains, and communicates processes and standard practices related to the high-level design, development, and implementation of solutions across portfolio of projects and enhancements in the domain.
Ensures solutions meet business needs along with architecturally significant functional and nonfunctional requirements.
Helps to ensure outside partners are educated on approved technical solutions and works with those partners to ensure requirements are met.
Scope of Activities:
The Solutions Architect will demonstrate competencies across four key dimensions:
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 documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
Analyzes the technology industry, competitors and market trends, and determines their potential impact on the enterprise.
Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs.
Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes.
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 based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.
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).
Orchestrates Solutions 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 product managers in EOL (end of life) product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire products, services or systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information).
Develops a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from future to current state (as defined by the solutions architecture).
Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.
Identifies the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures or culture) and financial impact of the solutions architecture.
Facilitates and Collaborates to Deliver Business Outcomes.
Works closely with the program management office (PMO) or project management office to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the project or product lifecycle.
Provides consulting support to application architects within agile 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 solutions architecture.
Supports a community of practice (CoP), guiding and helping agile teams, product owners, and application architects to align with the overall enterprise architecture governance and assurance.
Skills:
Familiarity with SDLC methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile / Scrum / Iterative, Rapid Prototyping, Incremental, and DevOps.
Knowledgeable in various aspects of enterprise technology architecture such as business, information, data, network and security.
Experience and knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL).
Extensive experience of Application Development Methodologies and Design Patterns.
Expertise in Integration Technologies.
Knowledge of Infrastructure Technologies, including Cloud computing / SaaS / IaaS / PaaS technologies.
Frontend web development languages such as JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
Backend development languages such as Java, Go and Python.
Database technologies such as MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle, HANA.
Knowledge and understanding of different modeling languages such as UML.
Experience in delivering within IT standards and controls.
Marketing Capability:
Solution Design experience in the following areas preferable:
Digital Experience Platform (DXP).
Content Management Systems (CMS).
Digital Asset Management (DAM).
Technologies could include:- Drupal, Salesforce, Solr, twill, Bynder, Akamai, API Integration, and microservices.
Competencies:
Skilled at influencing, guiding and facilitating stakeholders and peers with decision-making.
Ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to understand immediate and "big picture" perspectives.
Ability to translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirements.
Organizationally savvy, with strong business acumen.
Ability to propose and estimate the financial impact of solution architecture alternatives.
Ability to work creatively and analytically to solve business problems and propose solutions.
Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
Pay Range $75hr - $80hr
Responsibilities:
Interfaces with Business Relationship Managers and Systems Architects, providing technical and functional expertise to provide vision, oversight and coordination across portfolio of technical solutions being developed in a business capability domain.
Develops, maintains, and communicates processes and standard practices related to the high-level design, development, and implementation of solutions across portfolio of projects and enhancements in the domain.
Ensures solutions meet business needs along with architecturally significant functional and nonfunctional requirements.
Helps to ensure outside partners are educated on approved technical solutions and works with those partners to ensure requirements are met.
Scope of Activities:
The Solutions Architect will demonstrate competencies across four key dimensions:
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 documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
Analyzes the technology industry, competitors and market trends, and determines their potential impact on the enterprise.
Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs.
Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes.
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 based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.
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).
Orchestrates Solutions 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 product managers in EOL (end of life) product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire products, services or systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information).
Develops a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from future to current state (as defined by the solutions architecture).
Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.
Identifies the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures or culture) and financial impact of the solutions architecture.
Facilitates and Collaborates to Deliver Business Outcomes.
Works closely with the program management office (PMO) or project management office to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the project or product lifecycle.
Provides consulting support to application architects within agile 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 solutions architecture.
Supports a community of practice (CoP), guiding and helping agile teams, product owners, and application architects to align with the overall enterprise architecture governance and assurance.
Skills:
Familiarity with SDLC methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile / Scrum / Iterative, Rapid Prototyping, Incremental, and DevOps.
Knowledgeable in various aspects of enterprise technology architecture such as business, information, data, network and security.
Experience and knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL).
Extensive experience of Application Development Methodologies and Design Patterns.
Expertise in Integration Technologies.
Knowledge of Infrastructure Technologies, including Cloud computing / SaaS / IaaS / PaaS technologies.
Frontend web development languages such as JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
Backend development languages such as Java, Go and Python.
Database technologies such as MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle, HANA.
Knowledge and understanding of different modeling languages such as UML.
Experience in delivering within IT standards and controls.
Marketing Capability:
Solution Design experience in the following areas preferable:
Digital Experience Platform (DXP).
Content Management Systems (CMS).
Digital Asset Management (DAM).
Technologies could include:- Drupal, Salesforce, Solr, twill, Bynder, Akamai, API Integration, and microservices.
Competencies:
Skilled at influencing, guiding and facilitating stakeholders and peers with decision-making.
Ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to understand immediate and "big picture" perspectives.
Ability to translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirements.
Organizationally savvy, with strong business acumen.
Ability to propose and estimate the financial impact of solution architecture alternatives.
Ability to work creatively and analytically to solve business problems and propose solutions.
Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
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