Job Description
local candidates. Richmond, VA
Enterprise/Platform Architect
Rate: $85 an hr. C2C
USC, GC
- Virginia Dept of Transportation Req# (723723)
- *Local candidates only please.
- *Candidate must also be able to work onsite at least twice a month.
Position Title: Enterprise/Platform Architect
Position Status: Contract
Schedule: HYBRID
Overview: Our client is looking for an Enterprise/Platform Architect for a HYBRID position based out of Richmond, VA.
- Responsibilities:
- 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
- Provides direction, guidance, and definition of IT Platform architecture to effectively support 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.
- ligns 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.
- Requirements:
- 10 Years Experience in technical, substantive, and methodological issues related to design architecture for new or emerging solutions and technologies.
- 10 Years Experience with various aspects of enterprise architecture with knowledge of one or more formalized frameworks such as NASCIO, TOGAF, FEAF.
- 10 Years Experience applying application/software/systems development methodologies including agile approaches.
- 10 Years IT and business/industry work experience including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management, and infrastructure planning.
- 10 Years Experience in cloud application (Azure/AWS) / GIS architecture.
- 10 Years Competency with XML constructs and schemas. Experience with API protocols and schemas such as SOAP and REST.
- 10 Years Create overall application and solution architectures, component designs, and systems integration and implementations for a particular business solution.
- 7 Years Partner with architects, other technical team members and to develop roadmaps and strategies to support agency KPIs.
- 5 Years Experience in SaaS (Software as a Service) architecture.
- 4 Years Experience in defining enterprise metadata standards and an enterprise taxonomy.
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