Requisition ID : 210502
Posting Locations : Charlotte
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Job Overview
The Enterprise Architect is an experienced and seasoned IT architect with a broad range of technical skills, and a deep understanding of software, hardware, and technologies used across the enterprise. The Enterprise Architect will provide guidance, standards, and technical capabilities for IT to meet business objectives at the organizational level. The Enterprise Architect will partner with the EA Director / Manager and Architecture team to document standards, promote stewardship of governance, and help Solution Architects with roll out of standard tools and technologies. The individual will be familiar with best practices and industry standards, as well as emerging technologies not used by CCCI. This experience will reflect software development, architecture, infrastructure, security and data, as well as methodologies and strategies to standardize with flexibility across the enterprise. The Enterprise Architect will also need to be able to develop business knowledge, share the knowledge and make technical decisions that enable the business to operate more efficiently and meet business objectives. The Enterprise Architect is accountable for guidance, standards, and technical capabilities at the organization level.
Duties & Responsibilities
Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the organization's business processes, goals, and strategiesAssist EA Director / Manager in the development and maintenance of an organizational level 1-, 3-, and 5-year EA roadmap aligned to business objectivesPartner with IT Directors and Business Partners to align business needs and IT requirements at the organization levelDevelop standard frameworks that align CCCI's IT tools, technology, infrastructure and security with business processes / data to improve the efficiency and productivity of business operationsPartner with Solution Architects to produce and maintain a connected, enterprise-wide view of capability mappingsPartner with Solution Architects to produce and maintain documentation of applications and dependencies across the enterpriseReview and align on the organization's enterprise strategies to ensure cohesive and effective implementation across all business functionsProactively identify areas of improvement in the current IT environment such as consolidating duplicative technologies and come up with solutions to solveStay current with emerging technologies, in collaboration with fellow architects and Domain Experts, that are relevant to CCCI business objectives, advocating for innovative solutions that deliver added valueEstablish and promote IT standards and guidance for consistent use of technologies and tools at CCCIProvide technical guidance and knowledge sharing to EA teamCollaborate with Solution Architects, Infrastructure Architects, Security Architects, Data Architects, and other Domain Experts to promote alignment with security, infrastructure, delivery and EA policies / best practices in technology decision and solution designDocument standard organizational level IT solutions to common use casesMaintain a listing of organizational level architectural tech debt and advocate for initiatives to remediateCreate architecture templates that other architects will use to apply EA standards and guidelines to individual projects / initiativesReview architecture documents produced by other architects to ensure they align with the overall EA visionKnowledge, Skills, & Abilities
To be successful in this position the individual needs to have :Excellent communication skillsAbility to mentor and coach othersAbility to work with the Business, IT Directors, Architects, PMO, Delivery Teams and a variety or other roles to solve business problems leveraging technologyGood presentation and explanatory skills, with the ability to present / convey solutions in a non-technical mannerStrong analytical and problem-solving abilitiesAn understanding of, and ability to use, cloud design patterns to steer business requirements into enterprise-wide technical strategiesKnowledge of security design techniquesAbility to adapt to new technologies and learn quicklyKnowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks and ability to apply concepts that work within the organizationExperience with technical, application, and information architecture delivery / documentation techniques and methodologiesKnowledge of application, business, cloud, data, infrastructure, and security architecture disciplinesLeadership expectations include proactively guiding developers, leads, and other architects related to system knowledge and technologies and processesMinimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree (4 years) or equivalent Technology CertificationKnowledge acquired through 7 years of work experience spanning multiple IT disciplines / domains, such as technical architecture, application development, middleware, database management, cloud management, mobile management, data integrations and exchange frameworks, agile delivery, CI / CDPreferred Qualifications
Bachelor's degree (4 years) in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field5 Years of Agile Delivery in a Matrixed Organizational Structure5 Years of CI / CD experience - Tools, Frameworks and best practicesWork Environment
Position is Charlotte, NC based with need to be in the office 3 days per weekLI-MP1
As an EEO / Affirmative Action Employer all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status..
