Responsibilities

• Manage, facilitate, and communicate application architecture vision and strategy
• Create and execute technology and application architecture roadmaps that achieve the architecture vision and strategy
• Plan and execute architecture initiatives that fulfill the technology and architecture roadmaps
• Communicate conceptual ideas to leaders, translate ideas into architectural execution plans, and execute the plans leading to measurable results
• Define and manage application architecture and design standards
• Define and manage integration standards
• Modularize and modernize application architecture of existing monolithic systems with minimal impact to end-users
• Design and create modular software and services
• Effectively engage with business partners to recommend best practice architecture for projects, create technical design and review test results prior to deployment. 
• Support and enhance business critical custom-developed and vendor-provided applications and associated interfaces
• Plan and manage work on a daily basis, meet defined project goals, and complete assignments by scheduled dates, complying with documented change management procedures

Minimum Qualifications

•  Minimum 5 years of software development experience
•  Minimum 3 years of application architecture experience
•  Experience with architecture and development of secure web applications with the .NET framework and/or a JavaScript framework
•  Experience with architecture and development of secure REST APIs
•  Experience creating, documenting, and governing application architecture standards
•  Strong knowledge of architecture patterns and software design patterns and principles
•  Strong object oriented design skills
• Strong communication skills

Qualifications Considered a Plus

•  Experience with architecture and development of distributed applications deployed to field sites with potential for network connectivity disruption
•  Experience coaching, mentoring, or leading software developers
•  Experience with cloud architecture and cloud technologies
•  Experience with architecture of PaaS solutions
•  Experience with API management products, API design, and/or swagger
•  Experience with DevOps and/or DevSecOps practices
•  Experience with the agile methodology
•  Experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization with an understanding of various facilitation techniques

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline; or equivalent work experience.
• Certification in one or more architecture frameworks is considered a plus. (TOGAF, CTA, Zachman)