Hiring Technical Architect - Princeton, NJ - Contract To Hire

Role: Technical Architect Location: Princeton, NJ (Remote Till Covid) Duration: Contract To Hire (6-12 Months) Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the architectural integrity of the program and maintaining the enterprise vision of the solution from a technical and business perspective.
• Ensure that opportunities are identified and is a liaison between the functional and business groups to ensure that these opportunities are realized.
• Responsible for the business/technical solution and guiding what should be done within the program to ensure alignment with the enterprise strategy.
• Provide technical design, prototype development, and support to program management in the initiation, design, development, implementation, maintenance and management of service- based enterprise architecture.
• Ensure adherence to the standards and solution.
• Lead enterprise architecture analysis, evaluation, design, integration, documentation, and development.
• Serve as technical liaison between program management and development stakeholders.
• Make key architectural decisions required of the enterprise technical platform and supporting technologies.
• Evaluate projects from a business and technical perspective, ensuring that planned development methodologies are appropriate and in line to support enterprise goals.
• Partner with leaders to provide enterprise solutions that are calculable, adaptable and in synchronization with evolving business requirements.
• Contribute to technical requirements and input to work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans and status reports.
• Ensure adherence to quality standards and technical reviews for enterprise architecture deliverables.
• Work to align enterprise IT strategy with business goals and objectives and the enterprise strategy.
• Actively support IT governance as it relates to alignment to the business, evaluation of technology trends, enterprise architecture models, alignment of IT strategy initiatives, enterprise architecture guiding principles and standards.
• Analyze technology industry and market trends to determine potential impact to enterprise services.

• Typically requires an advanced technical degree and a minimum of 12 years in progressively responsible positions.
• Individual contributor who oversees large, technically complex projects.
• Consistently works on complex assignments requiring independent action and a high degree of initiative to resolve issues.
• Position is recognized as a subject matter expert within a particular discipline.
• Some barriers to entry exist at this level (Sr Executive approval).
• Knowledgeable of emerging trends and may contribute to and influence best practices within discipline.

• Overall good experience of systems integration and architecture
• In-depth experience in the areas below (experience in all areas below are not required)
  • N-tier Enterprise Application
  • Multi-tier Web Application Development and Deployment using ReactJS/Node, Java, Java Spring, Docker, NoSQL, RDBMS, Container orchestration e.g Kubernetes
  • Mobile technologies such as Android and iOS
  • AWS Cloud Technologies AWS Lambda, Gateway, SQS, SNS, AWS SageMaker
• Ability to articulate big picture to executives as well as help developers troubleshoot problems
• Ability to formulate solutions to technical problems and to write technical stories for developers to implement
• Ability to write technical whitepapers and content for RFI, RFP
• Ability to research current and emerging technologies and create Proof-of-Concepts to demonstrate to our customers
• Competent in writing papers, creating diagrams, and hands-on with coding

• HR Screen: John Reynolds; Senior Specialist, Recruitment (15min phone call)
• First Round: Principal Architect/Hiring Manager (60 minute Zoom)
• Second Round Interview: Senior Architect (60 minute Zoom)
• Third/Final Round: Vice President of Digital Product and Technology (60 minute Zoom)