System Architect IV - Syntricate Technologies Inc

Position: System Architect IV
Location: 4822 Madison Yards Way, Madison, Wisconsin, 53705 (95% REMOTE) Must be Local or Willing to Relocate
Duration: 12+ months Contract

JOB DESCRIPTION:
The Systems Architect (SA) ensures the overall system of applications, databases, and infrastructures meets current and future states' technical, business, and security requirements. The SA considers the evolving business, functional, and technical requirements of multiple business units and stakeholders to propose and evaluate highly complex architectures, including COTS and custom software, local and cloud hosting environments, and various data sources and data integration needs. This role performs several functions as part of ETF's overall modernization effort, including:

• Serve as a lead advisor to technical decision-makers.
• Design and evaluate system architecture in coordination with technical and business staff.
• Evaluate solutions with consideration to available resources, development processes, and business constraints.
• Coordinate and liaise between various technical, and functional areas such as security, middleware, help desk, application development, data management, and business intelligence to help ensure the components of the system lead to a coherent whole.
• Coordinate and liaise across projects to ensure technical decisions made within project teams are consistent with the overall system architecture.
• Conduct direct external research with outside peer organizations to evaluate systems and architectures, including implementation of like systems, and use that information to drive robust solutions within ETF.
• Perform a cost-benefit analysis of architectural decisions like cloud hosting options, including not only direct costs but also long-term implications for supporting development and customer service.
• Evolve system design and framework as new components are added or system requirements change.

Key Skills: (Need Majority; 3+ Years)

• Architect Roles
• System Architecture
• Integration Architecture
• Lead

Nice to Have Skills (Need X or more of the following):

• API Platforms
• Master Data Management
• Java Development Roles
• Modernization
• Cloud
• Security
• Middleware
• Facilitator
• CxO
• Multi-Disciplinary
• COTS
• Custom Software, Application Development
• Help Desk
• Data Management
• Business Intelligence
• Cost-Benefit, ROI

Qualifications:

• TBD