Enterprise Application Architect at APN Consulting, Inc

Direct Client Requirement
Position: Enterprise Application Architect
Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)
Type: Full Time/Permanent
In this role you will establish an end-to-end vision of the overall application design and provide technology leadership to the application architecture in terms of focus, technical direction, and breadth of coverage of relevant technologies.
Responsibilities
Strategize -

• Develop application architecture strategy in alignment with the Business goals
• Manages an application architecture governance process develops, communicates and ensures adherence to architecture processes, principles, policies and standards for the enterprise
• Review business drivers and strategies, understand the implications to the application architecture, and identifies/mitigates risks to solutions
• Champion and communicate the application architecture to the business leaders and contracting teams, associating the implication of the architecture to objectives/drivers/goals
• Accountable for the implementation of application architecture roadmap

Innovate -

• Collect research on the competition in terms of best practices, business processes and procedures
• Identify emerging technologies that can enable the overall business architecture
• Contribute to the development of proof of concepts or prototypes
• Partners with associates to build comprehensive reference architecture, examine existing frameworks and prepare for the future Architect
• Define development guidelines and standards to be utilized in application development and integration
• Analyze the current IT ecosystem application architecture to identify weaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements
• Define transition steps and strategy from the current to the future application architecture
• Define conceptual and detailed architecture for the development of applications and oversee the evolution of that architecture as the platform is deployed across the entire organization
• Develop methods to integrate systems that interact and extend across organizational and functional lines
• Develop and maintain IT ecosystem application architecture models, processes and documentation

Delivery -

• Identifies system requirements for large, complex ecosystem-wide applications
• Reviews requirements across multiple applications and develops application models that span applications and domains
• Oversee or lead the evaluation and selection process for application packages

Skills

• Knowledge and experience in Application modeling
• Understanding of IT Strategy, development lifecycle and alternative delivery methods
• Demonstrates thorough understanding of the key technologies which form the infrastructure necessary to effectively support existing and future business requirements
• Effective leadership skills including negotiation, persuasion, salesmanship, teaching, managing, conflict resolution, bridge building and being politically astute
• Analytical skills like technical translator, abstraction, pattern recognition, logical and holistic thinking
• Solution modeling & system integration and SOA experience
• Breadth of knowledge across all aspects of infrastructure design, delivery, operations and evolution

Deliverables

• Target Application Architecture
• General Application Architecture standards, principles and guidelines
• Target integration of architecture and guidelines
• Application architecture roadmap