Enterprise Architect - Schools Financial : Job Details

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Enterprise Architect

The pay range for this position is listed below. Our pay ranges are built to allow for candidates with various levels of skill and experience to be considered, as well as for room for growth and tenure achieved in a role over time. Typical new hire salary offers fall within the minimum to midpoint of a pay range for many candidates. Any offer extended to a candidate will be based upon their unique set of knowledge, skills, education, and experience as well as internal equity.

Pay Range:

$128,873.00 - $206,197.00

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

What You'll Be Doing

Responsible for ensuring best practice of the overall design, development, testing and implementation of SchoolsFirst FCU's information solutions. Develops high level frameworks that align IT infrastructure with business processes/data to improve the efficiency and productivity of business operations including: Mapping the relationships between information systems components (i.e., end users, business processes, applications, data, IT platform hardware/software, and networks). Identifying key interactions and dependencies across separate systems and platforms. Evaluating the total cost of ownership and return on investment of various architecture alternatives.

* Develops and maintains current and planned state architectural documents such as Domain roadmaps, Standards, Patterns, reference architecture/implementation documents for Enterprise Applications. Develop strategies, roadmaps, standards and reference architecture/implementation for Enterprise tools.

* Understands and transforms business requirements into scalable/manageable solution architecture and design specifications for reliability, scalability, security and integration.

* Solves complex problems with many variables using various security, network, storage, and compute platforms.

* Develops full-stack and reference architecture designs for infrastructure across hybrid environments inclusive of cloud platforms.

* Participates in the development of governance processes to ensure that objectives are achieved, risks are managed appropriately and the organization's resources are used responsibly for the infrastructure landscape.

* Documents existing systems architecture and technology portfolio to ensure accuracy is maintained.

* In partnership with the IT leadership team, identifies opportunities and risks for architecting the company's applications or infrastructure solutions, including identification of competitive services, opportunities for innovation, total cost of ownership, benefits and assessment of marketplace obstacles and technical hurdles.

* Leverages industry standards to guide solution decisions in relation to reliability, scalability, security and integration for the enterprise.

* Designs Technical/Application Architectures, including development, testing, runtime and operations architectures.

* Defines solutions using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), micro services patterns, automating business process models and cloud based services.

* Designs message and event-driven architectures. Creates prototypes and authoring detailed interaction specifications.

* Interacts with business units in response to service requests; researches and gathers all necessary details to determine functional requirements to meet project user's needs.

* Owns integration for integration scenarios across applications, data and processes, as well as code deployment and solution monitoring activities.

* Works closely with other IT Departments to ensure consistency, compliance with IT standards, policies and architectural plans, quality of solutions and knowledge sharing.

* Participates in highly complex or impactful operational incidents to ensure proper response and resolution to issues and errors.

* Stays abreast of how information technologies are currently impacting and driving competitors and provide recommendations and subject matter expertise regarding industry trends, technology and tools / services.

* Creation, update and maintenance of key Enterprise Architecture deliverables.

* Establishment and maintenance of contacts within business units and information system programs to understand business activities and business drivers, business requirements, solutions strategies, and alternatives, etc., being considered and/or implemented.

Additional Job Functions

* Performs other duties as assigned

* Complies with regulatory compliance and assigned training requirements including but not limited to BSA regulations corresponding to their specific job duties. Failure to do so may result in disciplinary and other employment related actions

Qualifications

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent years of experience required

* 7-10 years experience in building/implementation of technology solutions required

* 3-5 years experience at an architect level. required

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

* Follows problem management procedures

* Monitors accuracy of teammembers' work effort

* Displays technical expertise and applications knowledge

* Follows logical process for problem identification

* Diagnoses and resolves system problems

* Demonstrates knowledge of architectural concepts as required

* Strong oral and written communication

* Responsibility for cross functional teams

* Establish and maintain vendor relations

* Adheres to practices and standards

* Demonstrated ability to lead the design and development of complex applications.

* Understanding of and experience with the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), including functional and technical specification, implementation, QA processes, deployment, and maintenance

* Expert level with Microsoft Visio

SchoolsFirst FCU is committed to Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Hiring

At SchoolsFirst FCU we are dedicated to building and growing a diverse, inclusive, and authentic Dream Team, so if you're excited about a position or wanting to make a career change but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. Many skills are transferrable and you may be just the right candidate for the position, or for other roles we are working on.

SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. SchoolsFirst FCU is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibits discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, political affiliation, or genetic information.

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