Enterprise Architect

This role will essentially provide the necessary leadership, analysis, and design expertise for Architectural tasks to support the development of technology solutions, processes and/or integrations to ensure that IT Systems meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards. This role may work across different aspects of Architecture including Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Information Architecture, and Integration Architecture. Essential Job Functions: Understand business needs and suggest solutions to problems and translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all architecture design and analysis work. Develop, document, make recommendations, and communicate plans for investing in application infrastructure, including analysis of cost reduction opportunities. Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to help management assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT. Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes. Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of solutions and/or integration architecture across business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, business requirements and enterprise standards. Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution and/or integration development across including applications, technologies, processes and information. Creates reference architectures focused on detailed design principles, decision points, detailed APIs, major systems and dependencies between business and IT; documents As-Is and Target Architectures Analyzes the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical risks, and recommends solutions for improvement. Participates in the governance activities associated with ensuring architecture assurance and compliance; participates in definition of the principles, guidelines, and standards to ensure solution and/or integration decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision. Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations. Supports system managers in end-of-life system decisions to maintain, refresh or retire systems or technologies. Develops a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from future to current state. Works closely with the PMO to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the project or product lifecycle and with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle. Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify projects to accommodate the solutions architecture. Partner by working collaboratively throughout the EA team to develop, document and maintain current and strategic cross-capability roadmaps, principles, standards models, patterns, and reference architectures. Add / manage technology stack and recommend system upgrades. Contribute to EA standards, data architecture standards, EA governance frameworks, and system integration standards. Develop and maintain the technology stack to include commercial integration platforms (could be expanded to manage the Technology stack). Provide expert advice to project teams on use of integration technology, data architecture and modeling, system architecture including integration best practices. Provide oversight in standards adherence through reviews of project work including detailed technical specifications and application code. Work with project teams in definition of requirements for integration strategies of their projects into the Enterprise Architecture. Partner with leaders of other disciplines to ensure proposed solutions align with information, technology, infrastructure, business, and security architectures.

VARITE has a definite spirit. A spirit that derives from the promise of what we do that comes with knowing our services are helping businesses to implement their technology initiatives. At Varite, we provide contract and permanent staffing services to Fortune 100 companies in the USA. With 1000+ Global teams and operations in the USA, UK, CANADA, and INDIA, VARITE is currently engaged with leading technology, financial, automotive, defense, energy, pharmaceuticals/life sciences, semiconductor, and engineering companies to provide software consulting, team augmentation and key business process outsourcing. VARITE has ranked #124 in the Entrepreneur Magazine's HOT 500 list of fastest-growing businesses in America, Winner of the Cisco Business Growth Award, PRO Unlimited Global Supplier Awardee, People Scout Select Supplier, and a 5 times winner of Workforce Logiq Proven Performer Award.