Principal Architect IT

07 Mar 2025

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Job Description

Position Summary:

The Principal IT Architect is responsible for articulating the architectural vision, conceptualizing and experimenting with alternative architectural approaches, developing and validating the architecture and high-level solution design against business requirements, and guiding and mentoring development teams on methodologies, processes and best practices.

Experience and Skills

Responsibilities:

Articulate and document a solution architecture vision.

Map business capabilities and services to IT solutions, and plan IT solutions for future business opportunities.

Assist in aligning business strategy to IT strategy, in ways that adhere to the IT maxims.

Create solution architectures that are leverage-able for future re-use and actively seek opportunities to leverage existing IT solutions for new business offerings and services.

Align IT solutions with business functions to improve flexibility, facilitate large scale reuse, and improve comprehensibility and visibility of SR&T's value to the business.

Partner with business, Research and other FCE and SR&T teams, where appropriate, in designing IT solutions that match the needs of the business.

Continuously improve processes, technologies, applications to provide best value to business.

Establish standards in best practice design patterns and pitfalls to avoid in ensuring that IT solutions perform to expectations.

Assist development teams in developing and enhancing detailed application designs and interfaces.

Assess and formulate go forward architecture and technology direction for IT solutions

Aggressively identify enterprise IT application solution/technology initiatives that are of value. Collaborate with other architects and teams in execution of the initiatives.

Facilitate cross team and cross component collaboration.

Review and approve project deliverables to ensure that they are architecturally sound and achieve as great a degree of fit with the desired architectures as possible.

Facilitate leverage and reuse of components, solutions and technologies across teams and projects.

Additional responsibilities include influencing business strategy by explaining the capabilities of the architecture to management and the business and maintaining a broad understanding of the business including customer and market trends. You must have the ability to contribute to future vision and strategy by conducting research and proof of concepts, maintaining a broad knowledge of new technical tools and trends, and envisioning how those tools could be used in improving the business processes.

Adhere to ethical standards and comply with the laws and regulations applicable to your job function

Education, Certifications, or Special Licenses:

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline. Master's degree preferred.

Relevant Years of Experience Required:

Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible experience in IT.

Minimum 3 years of experience in IT Architecture and application design.

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ETS is an Equal Opportunity Employer comprised of people with different experiences, strengths, and backgrounds who share a passion for advancing quality and equity in education. We are dedicated to building teams that reflect the various backgrounds, experiences, and identities of those we serve. The Talent Acquisition team strives to ensure candidates enjoy a fair and equitable hiring process. We believe our differences empower us to be a better team, making better decisions and delivering better results.

  • ID: #49421741
  • State: New Jersey Princeton 08540 Princeton USA
  • City: Princeton
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2023-03-07
  • Deadline: 2023-05-05
  • Category: Et cetera