Architecture Senior Advisor - Contract - W2 Only - Bloomfield CT - iTech Solutions
Bloomfield, CT 06002
About the Job
Architecture Senior Advisor
This posting is for a W-2 employee only. Staffing company candidates and independent contractors will not be considered. All work under this opportunity will be performed in the United States.
Location: Onsite work required at least 2 days per week in Bloomfield, CT.
Duties:
Skills:
Additional Information: If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.
Education:
This posting is for a W-2 employee only. Staffing company candidates and independent contractors will not be considered. All work under this opportunity will be performed in the United States.
Location: Onsite work required at least 2 days per week in Bloomfield, CT.
Duties:
- Ensure that IT solutions align with defined business strategies and use influence to ensure execution meets long-term objectives, architecture runway, and market needs.
- Manage relationships with IT, Business, and Operations partners at all levels within all organizations.
- Operate within an economic framework when analyzing the impact of design decisions.
- Work with customers, stakeholders, and suppliers to establish high-level solution intent, and the solution intent information models and documentation requirements.
- Participate in planning, definition, and high-level design of the solution and exploration of solution alternatives.
- Review end-to-end design by the delivery team and provide guidance with accountability.
- Provide reference implementation on new solutions, patterns, and technology products.
- Ensure high-quality solutions with the best security measures, cost, performance, and operational efficiency in mind.
- Participate in Solution Demos, often demonstrating the capabilities that their Release Trains have contributed to the overall solution.
- Align technology approaches across Release Trains.
- Foster communication and collaboration between Agile teams within the Release Train and all appropriate stakeholders.
Skills:
- Key Leadership skills including honesty, integrity, inspiring others, commitment, passion, decision-making, empathy, delegation, and empowerment.
- Listen to and influence teams in problem identification/decision-making.
- Create an environment of mutual influence.
- Effective communication skills: Written, Verbal, Presentation.
- Coaching & Feedback.
- Facilitation.
- Ability to think critically to solve complex problems and guide the team to successful outcomes.
- Ability to drive change through influencing.
- Ability to collaborate to drive outcomes.
- Business Acumen.
- Ability to think beyond day-to-day activities.
- Process/Continuous Improvement.
Additional Information: If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.
Education:
- Bachelor s degree in computer science or a related field required.
- Strong technical background with a core competency in software development and architecture is desired.
- Overall 10+ years of experience related to IT delivery or software development.
- 5+ years of experience in technical/solution IT architecture.
- AWS Certified Solution Architect preferred.
- Broad knowledge of current technology trends and design patterns.
- Proven experience in building strong partnerships with key stakeholders, including senior-level executive sponsors.
- Experience in defining strategic roadmaps and establishing priorities, with experience in managing competing needs of multiple stakeholders.
- Executive presence, communication skills.
- Ability to influence leaders, drive change and transformation while working across all levels of the organization.
- Strong knowledge of Agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, utilizing CA Agile Central/Rally or a similar tool.
- Hands-on experience with Agile techniques: User Stories, Features, Capabilities and Epics development and refinement, Continuous Integration, Behavior Driven Development (BDD) test automation framework, Continuous Deployments, Regression Testing, Pair Programming, Burn Down Metrics, Velocity, etc.
- Hands-on experience with software development processes and procedures to understand team needs, including fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.
- Solid conceptual understanding of technology components, DevOps tools, and practices.
For more information please contact Tom Mazzulla
Since 1995, iTech Solutions Inc., has been providing IT Consulting and Direct Hire Services to the Insurance, Financial, Communications, Manufacturing and Government sectors with local offices in Connecticut, Minnesota, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, North Carolina, and New Jersey / Pennsylvania area.
Our recruiting strategy is simple, if you want to find qualified IT professionals then use IT professionals to find them. So at iTech Solutions, our personnel are all career IT professionals with a wide range of IT experience. We can honestly say our staff understands the technologies, the complexities of finding and selecting the appropriate personnel and the pressures of running successful IT projects.
Employer will not sponsor applicants for any employment visas, at hiring or in the future, including but not limited to H-1B visas. Corp-to-Corp or subcontract personnel will not be considered for this position.
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