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Solutions Architect  

Job Responsibilities 

• leading the development of solution architectures for both tactical and strategic projects,
• producing architecture documentation and deliverables including Architecture Plans, proofs-of-concept, standards, and roadmaps,
• providing leadership, knowledge, and experience to delivery teams on the architecture, design, and delivery of cost effective and sustainable solutions,
• ensuring proper and effective reuse of application and technical services, frameworks, and standard tools and templates in the proposed solution,
• ensuring that all aspects of the solution design follow best practices and meet the requirements of the business by participating in conceptual and physical design, participating in design reviews, and approving design deliverables,
• ensuring that code (and other implementation artifacts) adhere to standards and implement the specified design by participating in detailed reviews and providing approval,
• providing guidance to project teams in determining what functionality currently being implemented should be exposed as new services to the enterprise,
• providing training, mentoring, and knowledge transfer to project team members, and
• actively collaborating with other Architects to define new standards and best practices that are not provided for by the current architecture standards. 

Required Qualifications 

• must have a bachelor's degree in computer science, or an analytical discipline, or equivalent experience,
• must have at least five years of recent experience in full lifecycle solution development (analysis, architecture, design, development, testing, and deployment), preferably in a large enterprise environment,
• must have at least three years of recent experience leading the design and delivery of enterprise class solutions using object-oriented analysis and design techniques and object-oriented programming languages,
• must have expert knowledge and experience with the Microsoft development platform including the .Net framework, ASP.NET, VB.NET/C#, Visual Studio, and Team Foundation Server,
• must have expert knowledge and experience with multiple, diverse technical configurations, technologies and processing environments including databases, operating systems, application servers, web servers, messaging and message brokers, web services, workflow, security, and portals,
• must have expert knowledge and experience with designing and delivering solutions that factor in system performance, usability, quality, cross-system interdependencies, scalability, and overall cost to develop and maintain,
• must have expert knowledge and experience with object oriented analysis and design, design patterns, UML, object orient programming, service-oriented architecture, and solution frameworks,
• must have strong technical acumen with the ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies,
• must have strong business knowledge and technical skills, with the ability to translate complex business requirements into technology solutions,
• must have strong leadership and interpersonal skills, including written and verbal communication, teamwork, facilitation, consultation, and negotiation,
• must have excellent planning and organizational skills, with the ability to identify and estimate the financial impact of architecture alternatives,
• must have the ability to balance the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications of individual decisions and drive short-term actions that are consistent with long-term goals,
• must have an excellent attendance and punctuality record and a demonstrated ability to work under minimal supervision,
• must have high degree of self-motivation, commitment, and integrity, and
• must show enthusiasm, initiative, and pride in work and a commitment to our Mission. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• strong knowledge and experience with Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, SilverLight, Windows Server, SQL Server, and SSRS,
• strong knowledge and experience with the Oracle DBMS,
• strong knowledge and experience with JEE application servers such as WebLogic,
• knowledge and experience with SharePoint,
• knowledge and experience with Java development,
• knowledge and experience with design and performance tuning of large databases, and
• knowledge and experience with enterprise application integration technologies including IBM WebSphere MQ and Microsoft Biztalk Server.