Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect working a hybrid schedule (M,T,W, onsite Th, Fr remote) with our client in the manufacturing industry in their Lisle, IL location. Onsite role.
Summary:
The Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect proactively and holistically leads and supports EA (Enterprise Architect) activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio of solutions. Solutions include projects, systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services.
They understand the concepts of business goals, objectives and business outcomes, business capabilities, value-streams, and business processes and their importance in enterprise architecture. The Enterprise Solutions Architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis and recommendations to support the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards. They create deliverables for managing client's portfolio of "to be " and "as is " solutions — including systems (applications, processes, information and technology), shared infrastructure services, and shared application services and components to enable and drive targeted business outcomes.
Responsibilities
The Enterprise Solutions Architect will be responsible for performing duties in four key areas:
Interpret Business Needs

• Reviews and analyzes business and technical requirements and creates architectural assessments of solutions to identify the best technology to serve the business needs.
• Works closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
• Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise solution designs and change requirements to drive the clien's targeted business outcomes.

Assess Technology

• Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.
• Supports product owners in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services, or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.
• Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and their practical application to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
• Analyzes the technology industry, competitors, and market trends, and determines their potential implications for a given solution.
• Analyzes the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement.
• Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
• Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify designs to accommodate the Solutions Architecture.

Apply Technology:

• Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a Solutions Architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.
• Manages and develops the architecture for a broader scope of projects or products, working closely with application architects that manage and design architecture for a single project or product or initiative.
• Develops a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise solution portfolio from current to future state.
• Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes.
• Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects, and systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.
• Works closely with the Project Management Office (PMO) to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the project or product lifecycle.
• Provides consulting support to application architects within agile teams to ensure the project or product is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.

Provide Enterprise Guidance:

• Provides deliverables like architecture assessment, reference models and architecture designs to support architectural governance to assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate.
• Designs and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring Solutions Architecture assurance and compliance.
• Defines the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• At least 12 years of IT architecture experience
• At least 2 years of lead experience

OR

• Master's degree
• At least 8 years of IT architecture experience
• At least 2 years of lead experience

OR

• At least 14 years of IT architecture experience
• At least 2 years of lead experience

Desired Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of fifteen years of experience working in IT at increasing levels of responsibility.
• Minimum of ten years of experience in the following IT solution development disciplines, including technical architecture in the areas of infrastructure architecture application development, middleware and integration services, API and service interface architecture, Cloud platform and Cloud development.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms, and processing environments.
• Good understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models.
• Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt.
• Experience working in a relevant industry is helpful, but not required.
• Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies, and roadmaps.
• Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences.
• Knowledge of Cloud platforms preferably Azure. AWS and GCP nice to have.
• Knowledge of various backend development languages like .NET, Java, Go and Python.
• Knowledge of various database technologies like SQL Server and Oracle.
• Knowledge of various frontend web development languages like JavaScript, JavaScript frameworks like React, Node or Vue.
• Knowledge of various aspects of a technology architecture like Integration, Data, Application, Network and Security.
• Knowledge of information principles and processes.
• Understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and DevOps).
• Understanding and knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL).
• Knowledge of different modeling languages (such as UML and ArchiMate).
• Understanding of IT standards and controls.
• Excellent understanding of application development methodologies and infrastructure and network architecture
• Excellent analytical, planning, organizational and technical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work with developers in an outsourced environment.

Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.
For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client.
Benefits of Working with Genesis10:
• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF)
• Remote opportunities available
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