"Java Architect "

Job Description:-

The Enterprise Architect plays an integral role in building a holistic view and roadmap of the company's technology strategy, processes, and information technology roadmap. The Enterprise Architect partners with both business and technology groups to ensure that the proposed technical solutions not only align with the company's overall objectives, but also ensures that both groups enable and drive each other to meet the needs of the company's mission and vision. Enterprise Architect must possess broad experiences to leverage and draw upon in building out the vision, strategy and roadmap working in varying levels of abstraction.

Primary Responsibilities

· Leads the creation of architecture strategies and develops technical architecture and solutions for large enterprise level applications and systems

· Builds the long-term strategy and roadmap that aligns with IT to business strategy and objectives.

· Works with business and technology stakeholders to develop and iterate enterprise architecture that adapts to changing business needs

· Works on highly complex enterprise-wide projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized architecture domains.

· Seamlessly integrates business and service strategy into enterprise architecture roadmap.

· Partners with business and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions.

· Leads the design and modeling of tactical architectures for delivery, development, and support of projects.

· Partners with other solution architects to provide a consensus based scalable and adaptable architectural solution.

· Develops and maintains policies, standards, and guidelines to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across the company.

· Leads design governance across IT teams

· Maintains a strong understanding of the business strategy, IT strategy and commercial frameworks within IT

· Promotes the use of a shared infrastructure and application roadmap to reduce costs and improve how information flows.

· Manages and facilitates review boards to evaluate project proposals for architectural fit.

· Circulates roadmaps to align IT priorities with business partner needs.

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Qualifications

Any combination of relevant education and experience and/or related professional designations/certifications in this field is highly desirable.

Education

· Minimum Required: Bachelor's in a business related field or Computer Science, Information Technology, or Computer Engineering

· Masters in a Business Related field or Computer Science, Information Technology, or Computer Engineering, preferred

Experience

· 12+ years' experience.

Technologies

· Expert in Java technologies and ecosystem, with good understanding of tools and frameworks in both commercial and open-source domains.

· Breadth of expertise in multi-discipline technology domains typical of large-scale enterprise transformations.

· Knowledge of integration technologies (ESB, BPM, API Gateway) and application to API-first architectures.

· Understanding of content management systems and Content as a Service models.

· Latest user interface and user experience technologies (AngularJS, ReactJS, Google Material Design) and mobile-first architectures.

· Proficient in security concepts such as OAuth, SSO, and Attribute Based Access Control.

· Master Data Management concepts especially in the insurance domain.

· Configuration Management (ex. Chef, Puppet, Ansible).

· Continuous Integration (ex. Jenkins).

· Relational (Oracle, SQL Server) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, etc)

· Awareness of open source tools and technologies.

Essential Skills

· Demonstrate depth and breadth of expertise in Enterprise Architecture Frameworks; Deep insurance domain expertise.

· Proven track-record of design and development of medium to high complexity IT solutions for applications and systems

· Ability to defend architectural decisions to IT, business, and operations audiences

· Ability to build relationships and work across IT and Business functions

· Ability to articulate the relationship between business strategy and technology strategy and provide thought leadership.

· Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.

· Ability to think big and challenge conventional wisdom regarding technology refresh and hype.

· Provide guidance on technology assessment and fitment from an enterprise architecture strategy.

· Comfortable with ambiguity and willing to take principled bets on new technology.

· Strong leadership and negotiation skills with business and technical groups.

· Excellent analytical and technical skills.

· Strong written and verbal communication skills.

· Ability to understand the long-term 'big picture" and short-term perspectives of situations.

· Ability to translate business needs into solution & architectural requirements.

· Ability to estimate the financial impact of individual architectural alternatives.

· Ability to define multiple options to address a business problem or need.

· Basic knowledge of business process re-engineering principles and processes.

· Basic knowledge of information principles and policies.

· Basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.