Lead Architect – Consumer – Employee – & Financial Solutions
| Company | Verizon Communications |
|---|---|
| Location | E Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL, USA, Berkeley Heights, NJ, USA, Irving, TX, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience
- Eight or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
- Experience in IT architecture, in a lead role capacity
- Proven experience with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, FEAF, etc.)
- Strong understanding of IT security, data management, and integration strategies.
- Experience with large-scale IT transformation initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Leading the development and execution of the enterprise architecture strategy, aligning technology systems with business objectives to drive transformation and growth
- Overseeing the design of scalable and secure enterprise architectures that meet business needs and adhere to industry standards and best practices.
- Mentoring a team of architects, working closely with other IT leaders, project managers, and business stakeholders to ensure successful solution implementation.
- Evaluating and recommending emerging technologies and tools that can enhance the organization’s IT capabilities and streamline business processes.
- Establishing architectural governance frameworks, including standards, policies, and processes, and ensuring compliance with industry regulations and organizational objectives.
- Leading integration efforts for key enterprise applications and platforms, ensuring seamless data exchange and functionality across systems.
- Identifying and mitigating architectural risks, ensuring that the IT infrastructure is robust, resilient, and secure.
- Promoting continuous improvement of enterprise architecture practices, frameworks, and tools to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve the customer experience.
- Continually working internally and externally with subject matter experts on identifying best-in-class architecture solutions for pain points common to Enterprise systems.
- Leveraging standardized architecture frameworks (TOGAF, TMForum, etc.) that drive repeatable processes, technology efficiencies and improvements, governance, and a dynamic Northstar architecture.
- Driving Application & Portfolio Rationalization recommendations to either Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, or Eliminate (Gartner TIME model) individual enterprise-level systems.
- Publishing build vs buy decisions, and determining on-prem vs cloud tenancy for relevant functions based on TCO, speed and scale, vendor maturity and support, and operational effectiveness.
- Developing and maintaining architectural documentation, including diagrams, policies, and standards into a centralized architecture repository.
- Providing technical leadership and mentorship to junior team members.
- Drive roadmapping (product and vendor-based) of IT patterns and trends for quarterly executive reviews.
- Directing engagement in Strategic Planning, Project Planning, & Ongoing Operations to ensure IT alignment with business goals.
- Fostering the creation of Business Process Maps for alignment to system architecture choices and decisions.
- Holding Architecture Review Board, TechTalk, and similar presentations for mass communications.
- Partnering with business and IT stakeholders to align with business drivers and product strategy across various lines of business, and apply service-oriented architecture, microservices architecture patterns and cloud native principles to deliver architecture artifacts.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Certification in Enterprise Architecture (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, etc.)
- Experience with enterprise architecture using cloud-based platforms
- Proven ability to design and implement complex enterprise-wide solutions.
- Ability to break down complex topics into simple-to-digest information and data points, adjusted to audiences at various levels.
- Ability to facilitate group meetings/discussions
- Ability to broker solutions for issues between functional domains, senior leaders
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
- Demonstrable experience in articulating the business drivers and architectural approach/trade-offs during discussions for solution buy-in at various levels.