Senior Solutions Architect
Company: Manpower Group Inc.
Location: New Haven
Posted on: May 8, 2024
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Job Description:
Sr. Solution Architect
Job information:
Located in New Haven,CT
1 year contract
Can be remote (EST time zone only)
Pay Range: $70-$87/hr.
USC or GCH only
Overview
The Sr. Solutions Architect is responsible for designing business
solutions and capabilities in alignment with enterprise
architecture standards and strategic direction for the
organizations external facing presence, Marketing, Sales &
Distribution, Customer Service, Online Membership, and Charity
services.
The Solution Architect will be responsible for leading the solution
design and implementation for complex systems, platforms and would
interact with key business stakeholders, design teams, development
and QA teams on a variety of projects in a highly collaborative,
fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will have strong
technical aptitude & business acumen in the insurer sector; and
will effectively drive technology change by creating, communicating
and improving the key requirements, principles and models that
describe the enterprises future state and enable its evolution.
This role also requires collaboration with cross functional teams
within the Enterprise Solutions Delivery department, ensuring that
outcomes comply with the Enterprise Architectural vision, quality,
and security standards. The Sr. Solutions Architect is a member of
a cross functional team that collaborates with business customers
to define the capabilities and solutions.
The Sr. Solutions Architect will define how those capabilities will
be built, and will support timely delivery of those capabilities
and solutions including participating in planning and requirements
definition in collaboration with business owners and product
managers to ensure that the time and effort of the Solutions
Delivery teams is producing the greatest value and is in alignment
with the overall strategy.
Core Responsibilities
Technical Solution Design
Designs enterprise solutions and capabilities that are scalable,
adaptable, and in synchrony with the ever-changing business needs
in alignment with the architecture strategy, policies, standards
and procedures.
Promotes shared infrastructure and applications to reduce costs and
improve information flow. Contributes to a reduction in IT
complexity, enforcement of discipline and standardization of IT
planning activities, consolidation of data and applications, and
better interoperability of the systems. Facilitates the reuse of
ideas, components, services, and proven patterns across various
solutions.
Understands business requirements as they pertain to digital
technologies (including digital marketing, strategy, content,
application modernization, DevOps / Agile processes, API /
microservices architecture and digital workspace).
Leads the design of innovative enterprise solutions, working
closely with Programmer Analysts, QA, and other stakeholders to get
high-quality products and features through the agile software
project lifecycle. Provides hands-on software development and
project management, cross-functional coordination, and inter/intra
team communications to ensure program success and delivery
throughput.
Documents and communicates architectural requirements for solutions
and capabilities.
Maintains architectural documentation of solutions built and
supported by the cross functional Solutions Delivery teams.
Collaborates closely with business customers, product management
personnel, and development team members to design and deliver
business solutions.
Supports the articulation and communication of the IT Strategy to
KofC constituents.
Collaborates with the Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise
Infrastructure Services to assess technology lifecycles and
determines how individual technologies or standards will change, be
versioned or transitioned out.
Collaborates with other architects at Knights (Data, Infrastructure
etc.) to ensure integrity of assigned domain.
Collaborates with Application Domain Leads to manage the
application portfolio and roadmaps.
Practices risk management, engages key risk stakeholders, and
effectively escalates issues that create business, technical,
operational, and project risk.
Provides metrics for key performance indicator measurement in
support the planning process, organizational objectives, and the
strategic vision.
Creates and maintains a consistent Web site architectural structure
across the organizations Web applications.
Collaborates with Web developers in the development and integration
of graphical and multimedia components into Web sites and other Web
applications.
Collaborates with User Experience (UX) team to ensure that the user
is at the center of all solution design decisions.
Creates and develops transaction-based e-commerce solutions for
business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications where
required.
Models, simulates or prototypes the behavior of proposed systems
components to enable approval by stakeholders.
Proven capabilities to identify, investigate and resolve variety of
architecture issues including scalability, integration,
extendibility, and performance. Ability to drive and lead solution
development from conception through deployment.
Knowledge of solution architecture patterns, processes, and
governance. Ability to Review and approve functional &
non-functional development and create implementation guidelines for
designed and developers.
Ability to articulate and collaborate solution requirements using
interviews, document analysis, stakeholder surveys, business cases,
use cases, user stories, business analysis, task, and workflow
analysis.
Collaborative Team Environment Participation
Provides deep, subject matter expert knowledge for domain
technologies.
Cross team collaboration and relationship building, including:
creating consensus and buy-in, negotiating and resolving conflicts
when necessary with minimal escalation.
Provides a broad, systems-thinking perspective to the solutions
delivery teams.
Participates in planning at the department and team levels.
Provide architectural oversight and direction to multiple scrum
teams as applicable.
Takes responsibility for delivering on commitments to teams: their
own team and those with whom they collaborate.
Plans directly with business customers ensuring that the solution
needed by the Knights of Columbus is the solution that is
delivered.
Participates in continuous improvement activities with their own
team as well as the teams whom which they collaborate.
Promotes continuous delivery pipeline and DevOps capabilities.
Defines subsystems and their interfaces, allocates responsibilities
to subsystems, understands solution deployment, and communicates
requirements for interactions with solution context.
Capable of supporting developers during feature implementation by
explaining solution design details and solving issues. Maintain up
to date domain architecture specification.
Ability to articulate and collaborate solution requirements using
interviews, document analysis, stakeholder surveys, business cases,
use cases, user stories, business analysis, task, and workflow
analysis.
Business Relationship Management
Gracefully responds to emerging business needs and changes in
priority.
Cultivates relationships with business stakeholders, product
managers, stakeholders and users of the systems they design and
support.
Maintains in-depth knowledge of the business processes they
support.
Collaborates with business partners on generating and analyzing
innovative ideas and technologies across the business.
Develops and maintains current and future state solution
architectures.
Information System & Technology Architecture
Actively participates in the Architecture community of
practice.
Designs and oversees implementation of business solutions.
Maintains in-depth knowledge of the organization's technologies and
architectures.
Actively uses the shared infrastructure and application roadmap to
reduce costs and improve how information flows.
Conducts research into current and emerging Web technologies and
issues in support of Web development efforts.
Develop project deliverables, proof-of-concepts, and pilot new
technologies.
Tracks and evaluates new standards, technologies and trends in Web
architecture, development, design, and delivery.
Architecture Process & Governance
Adheres to the architectural governance process.
Adheres to Enterprise technology standards and policies in solution
designs and recommendations.
Executes the Enterprise Architecture Governance processes.
Executes the IT strategy as defined by the IT Leadership and
Enterprise Architecture Team.
Actively participates in architecture review sessions with the
Enterprise Architecture team.
Enforces and adheres to IT standards, policies and Enterprise
architectural plans.
Ensures that project documentation captures significant
architectural decisions.
Expertise with all facet of the solution architecture including
UI/UX, APIs, ERP, CRM, Distributed Caching, Mobile Application,
Application Portfolio Management, Databases & Storage, Security,
and Cloud & Infrastructure Components (SaaS, IaaS, and IaaS). Any
vendor specific Cloud certification is a plus.
Ability to articulate and collaborate solution requirements using
interviews, document analysis, stakeholder surveys, business cases,
use cases, user stories, business analysis, task, and workflow
analysis.
Participates in defining and measuring SLAs and recommends
improvement opportunities or provides alternate solutions or
approaches.
Essential Competencies
Professionalism/Personal Accountability, Collaboration and
Teamwork, Communication, Flexible and Adapts to Change, Service to
Customers and Clients.
Skill Qualifications
Required:
Expertise with a broad base of digital web and mobile products,
technologies, platforms, patterns, frameworks, and
methodologies.
Experience with single sign-on systems, role-based access
management systems, and PII data security best practices.
Expertise with typical multi-tier architectures: web servers,
caching, application servers, load balancers, and storage.
Experience developing and refining best practices for
implementation and maintenance of e-Commerce, CRM, web, social
media, and web analytic assets.
Experience with general security technologies, processes, and
concepts.
Experience with architectural framework (TOGAF, Zachman, FEA, or a
hybrid of multiple frameworks).
Experience within SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud
environments.
Experience with User Centered Design practices.
Experience in Content Management systems (TeamSite knowledge a
plus).
Experience user facing web application development and
measurement.
Experience with environments containing multiple, diverse
technologies and processing environments.
Command of sound software design principles and patterns is
required.
Excellent communication, presentation, influencing, and reasoning
skills.
Ability to clearly communicate complex concepts with both technical
and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong leadership, interpersonal skills and ability to work
cross-functionally.
Strong business judgment and decision-making skills. Ability to
identify, prioritize, and articulate highest impact
initiatives.
Experience working/leading projects executed using Waterfall and
Agile Methodologies.
Ability to learn and adjust quickly to a dynamic and changing
environment
Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, PowerPoint,
Visio, and Outlook.
Knowledge of ITSM standards and processes.
Effectively participates in teams and moves the team toward
completion of goals.
Ability to effectively resolve conflicts.
Preferred:
Microsoft Dynamics experience.
Business intelligence/analytics experience is a plus.
Familiarity with Marketing and Advertising is desirable.
Education and Experience Qualifications
Required:
Bachelors degree in computer science, information systems, computer
engineering, system analysis, or a related field, or equivalent
work experience.
10 or more years of IT and business/industry work experience
including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle
management, and infrastructure planning and operations.
Preferred:
Certification in any one of the EA frameworks is a plus.
Physical Demands
Must be able to remain in a stationary position for a majority of
the workday.
If this is a role that interests you and you'd like to learn more,
click apply now and a recruiter will be in touch with you to
discuss this great opportunity. We look forward to speaking with
you!
About ManpowerGroup, Parent Company of: Manpower, Experis, Talent
Solutions, and Jefferson Wells
ManpowerGroup - (NYSE: MAN), the leading global workforce solutions
company, helps organizations transform in a fast-changing world of
work by sourcing, assessing, developing, and managing the talent
that enables them to win. We develop innovative solutions for
hundreds of thousands of organizations every year, providing them
with skilled talent while finding meaningful, sustainable
employment for millions of people across a wide range of industries
and skills. Our expert family of brands - Manpower, Experis, Talent
Solutions, and Jefferson Wells - creates substantial value for
candidates and clients across more than 75 countries and
territories and has done so for over 70 years. We are recognized
consistently for our diversity - as a best place to work for Women,
Inclusion, Equality and Disability and in 2022 ManpowerGroup was
named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 13th year -
all confirming our position as the brand of choice for in-demand
talent.
ManpowerGroup is committed to providing equal employment
opportunities in a professional, high quality work environment. It
is the policy of ManpowerGroup and all of its subsidiaries to
recruit, train, promote, transfer, pay and take all employment
actions without regard to an employee's race, color, national
origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic
information, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status,
or any other basis protected by applicable law.
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