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Form of workSchellman is a leading provider of attestation and compliance services. Our professional services focus on security and privacy audits, assessments, and certifications. Schellman has become one of the largest cybersecurity assessment firms in the United States without providing any traditional accounting services, such as financial statement audits or tax preparation services, as other CPA firms. We are an accredited multi-framework ISO Certification Body for security, privacy, business continuity, and quality; a globally licensed PCI Qualified Security Assessor and a top provider to clients serving the federal DoD space as a leading FedRAMP 3PAO and the first assessment firm authorized as a CMMC C3PAO.
JOB SUMMARY
The Sr. Director, Enterprise Architecture will lead the architecture practice and be responsible for developing and executing on the integration, platform and cloud strategy aligning to the firm’s strategy. The Sr. Director will plan, coordinate, architect, and supervise all activities related to the software programs, applications, and third-party solutions as required to meet the organization's business requirements. This individual is also responsible for developing and maintaining an organization's business, application, and information architecture blueprint. Proven communication, problem-solving, and knowledge of best practices are critical to successful performance in this role.
Essential Functions:
- Develop and maintain business, application, and information architectural blueprint and artifacts for the business.
- Plan, manage, and own the architectural runway for the business through continuous application and technology rationalization.
- Orchestrate initiatives and corresponding strategies between business unit, product, design, and engineering teams.
- Collect, generate, and evaluate new ideas across the business.
- Perform POCs and build rapid prototypes to prove the viability of concepts & ideas.
- Lead a team of architects and partner with the product and engineering team to build the roadmap and execute quarterly plans
- Develop standards, best practices, and processes to support and facilitate technology initiatives.
- Promote DevSecOps, shift left security & quality, and evolutionary architectural practices.
- Research and recommend products and services to support procurement and development efforts.
- Collaborate with analysts, designers, and system owners in developing and testing software programs and applications.
- Build relationships with product, software development, and engineering teams to gain an understanding of application architectures and required functionality.
- Facilitate the reuse of code, components, and proven patterns across the solutions
- Liaise with software developers and engineers to address issues in sprint and PI cycles.
- Ensure the collection and coherent interpretation of the various business processes affected by ongoing product development efforts.
- Work diligently to enhance or improve business processes via integration, platform, and data strategy on those processes.
- Evaluate results of initiatives, perform gap analysis, identify root cause and make recommendations based on findings.
- Where necessary, guide other members of the team.
Education, Work Experience and Certifications
- Bachelors degree in computer science or computer engineering, and/or 16+ years equivalent work experience.
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, with 5 + years in a leadership role
- Proven experience in developing enterprise and solution level architectural designs.
- Proven experience in overseeing the linking of cross-functional applications between disparate business units and systems.
- Experience with business and technical requirements analysis, business process modeling/mapping, methodology development, and data mapping.
- Extensive experience with application development, DevSecOps, modern data management techniques
- Technically fluent in programming languages, including Java, Python, Typescript, Angular.
- Strong experience with integration, platform and cloud technologies
- Knowledge of relational database design and management techniques.
- Strong understanding of security, scalability and performance of technology infrastructure
- Strong knowledge of system and software quality assurance best practices and methodologies.
- Excellent understanding of the organization's goals and objectives.
Personal Attributes
- Excellent oral and interpersonal communication skills.
- Outstanding writing and documentation skills.
- Ability to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language.
- Able to conduct research into issues and products through standard techniques.
- Highly self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail.
- Able to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
- Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
- Knowledge of applicable security, data privacy practices and laws.
- Stay current on software delivery trends, technologies, and best practices and apply them to the firm’s work
Work Conditions
- Occasional evening and weekend work to meet deadlines.
- Physically able to participate in sessions, presentations, and meetings.
- Some travel may be required for offsite strategy and planning sessions.
Schellman is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the workplace; therefore, providing equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable law. Schellman uses E-Verify in our hiring process.
At Schellman, we strive to provide a flexible and balanced environment and therefore offer the opportunity to work remotely, unless otherwise stated in the job requirements. Connecting, collaborating and continuous education are also highly valued and therefore we require approximately 20% travel annually for our Operations roles, which can include in-person training, team meet-ups, and strategy meetings. Service Delivery team members will also be required to travel based on business and client needs.
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