Enterprise/Platform Architect

Job Details :

Job Title : Enterprise / Platform Architect

Job Location : Richmond, VA 23219

Contract Duration : 11 Months (Possibility of extension)

Work Mode : Hybrid (Onsite at least once a month)

Interview Type : Both Web Cam and In Person Interview

Complete Description :

The Client is seeking an Enterprise / platform architect to join the Enterprise Architecture team. This individual will work with key members to balance and prioritize current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer-term strategic vision of the organization.

Furthermore, the enterprise / platform architect provides technology guidance, road maps, principles, standards, and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Provides direction, guidance, and definition of IT Platform architecture to effectively support client’s IT and business strategy.
• Supports all architectural disciplines and champions architectural initiatives.
• Reviews existing business processes and establishes metrics to improve business processes, as well as support of all architectural disciplines under their direction.
• Works on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized architecture domains.
• Aligns architecture strategy with business goals.
• Defines, explains, and advocates technology strategy.
• Develops and communicates architectural policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
• Promotes the EA process, outcomes, and results to the organization and senior leadership.
• Reviews and / or analyzes and develops architectural requirements as needed for the organization.
• Ensures the conceptual completeness of the technical solutions.
• Leads teams in developing technology plans.
• Consults with project teams to fit projects to enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.
• Ensures recommendations are based on business relevance, appropriate timing, and deployment.
• Collaborates with project management and IT leaders to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with project goals and requirements.
• Preferred experience includes Esri's GIS tools and platform

Required / Desired Skills :

• Experience in technical, substantive and methodological issues related to design architecture for new or emerging solutions and technologies.
• Experience in defining enterprise metadata standards and an enterprise taxonomy
• Experience with various aspects of enterprise architecture with knowledge of one or more formalized frameworks such as NASCIO, TOGAF, FEAF
• Experience applying application / software / systems development methodologies including agile approaches
• IT and business / industry work experience including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management, and infrastructure planning and o
• Experience with Esri's GIS tools and platforms is highly desired.
• Experience in cloud application (Azure / AWS) / GIS architecture.
• experience in SaaS (Software as a Service) architecture
• Competency with XML constructs and schemas. experience with API protocols and schemas such as SOAP and REST
• Partner with architects, other technical team members and to develop roadmaps and strategies to support agency KPIs
• Create overall application and solution architectures, component designs, and systems integration and implementations for a particular business sol.

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