[Hiring] Architect II @AF Group

Role Description

The Architect II assists in creation of best practices and is responsible for designing and effectively implementing strategies and solutions in alignment with IT strategy and guidelines. This position assists in the development of actionable blueprints, principles, models, designs, standards, and guidelines for assigned projects/initiatives to ensure information technology architecture is consistent, usable, secure and adds value to the business. The position helps facilitate design and implementation of flexible, scalable, and cost-effective solutions and provides technical guidance to subordinate group.

• Accountable for adhering to corporate architecture standards.
• Ensures technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization.
• Contributes to corporate architecture strategy-setting.
• Participates in formulating solution estimates and work planning.
• Builds consensus around principles of infrastructure architecture.
• Participates in the evaluation, selection, and implementation of technology solutions.
• Maintains operational, architectural, and design documentation.
• Evaluates strengths and flaws in infrastructure design.
• Assists in the facilitation of project handoffs.
• Establishes and maintains relationships with IT and business area partners.
• Troubleshoots, recommends, and executes action plans for issue resolution.
• Selects and designs tools that allow reuse of design components and patterns.
• Continually works to enhance breadth and depth of knowledge and experience.
• Benchmarks technology strategies and architectures.
• Monitors and anticipates trends and investigates organizational objectives and needs.
• Prepares benchmarking reports and presentations.
• Promotes implementation of new technology, solutions, and methods.
• Develops actual working solutions or prototypes based on their own designs.
• Stays updated on current technology trends and industry best practices.
• Provides technical leadership and works effectively with different teams.
• Fosters a healthy, collaborative, and productive scrum team culture.
• Works with other leads in a project setting to define and execute a software architecture.
• Leads key initiative design, capable of completing tasks independently and leading a team technically.
• Exchanges information clearly and precisely, in verbal or written form.
• Works with networks and understands internet security protocols.
• Analyzes existing systems to ensure adequate security and business continuity.
• Works with web servers, application server administration, and web applications deployment.
• Knowledge of routing and switching technologies.
• Creates designs to support appropriate technology choices.
• Creates strategy for server & network technologies.
• Promotes and conducts software development best practices.
• Assists in the structuring of data including methods of storing and retrieving data.
• Facilitates and creates reporting tools and automates the delivery of reports.
• Creates data interfaces and facilitates API extraction of data.
• Designs and architects Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions.
• Provides technical leadership experience with IAM Tools.
• Defines solutions and best practices for a suite of ForgeRock IAM products.
• Supports IAM becoming a product differentiator.
• Guides project teams with implementations consistent with company policies.
• Aligns projects with business and IT strategy.
• Writes policy and standards as needed for compliance.
• Works with development and QA teams to ensure secure coding practices.
• Develops product roadmaps to meet security goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related area required; Master’s preferred.
• Continuous learning, as defined by the Company’s learning philosophy, is required.
• Azure or AWS Solution Architect certification or progress toward certification is highly preferred.
• Prior development and scrum/agile experience.
• Experience with RDBMS (Oracle 10g/11g, MS SQL 2005/2008).
• Working experiences with No-SQL databases such as MongoDB, Azure CosmosDB, AWS DynamoDB are preferred.

Requirements

• 5 years’ experience in the implementation and maintenance of enterprise level systems.
• Experience in a large complex enterprise environment, preferably in Healthcare, Insurance, or similarly government-regulated environment.

Benefits

• Actual compensation decision relies on the consideration of internal equity, candidate’s skills and professional experience, geographic location, market and other potential factors.
• Reasonable estimate for this role is between $82,800 and $217,100.

Company Description

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment in any form. Candidates for the position stated above are hired on an "at will" basis. Nothing herein is intended to create a contract.