Applications Enterprise Architect

29 May 2025

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Job#: 1349734

Job Description: Role: Applications Enterprise Architect

Location: Hybrid Austin, TX (onsite 2 days a week)

Duration: Contract-To-Hire

Compensation: $90/hr W2 (Competitive Based On Experience)

Job Title: Enterprise Architect - Applications

Overview:

The Enterprise Architect will be owning and facilitating architecture development; reviewing architecture; providing feedback on application designs; providing input on company-wide initiatives; collaborating with engineering teams to jump start complex projects; work with product owners to articulate benefits of proposed solutions; influence technical roadmap of enterprise platforms; develop and enforce standards and help the business prioritize work.

This position will report to the Senior Director - IT Transformation within the Information Technology department and is expected to be local to the Austin, TX office location.

Responsibilities:

Include, but not limited to:
  • Act as a liaison with other architects (security, infrastructure, data, etc.)
  • Identify opportunities for reuse within enterprise technology services
  • Ensure that service designs adhere to standards, principles and governance processes
  • Perform peer reviews of designs and solution proposals to ensure conformance to current practice and quality of work being generated
  • Provide technology/architecture recommendations based on business relevance, appropriate timing, and deployment
  • Responsible for enterprise solution design, end-to-end business process engineering and requirements mapping
  • Document necessary technical architecture design and analysis work, possibly including project postmortem documentation and metric collection
  • Keep the portfolio up to date, driving retirement of legacy solutions/technologies
  • Contribute to the design of operational processes, ensuring efficiency, scalability, and compliance with policies and security requirements
  • Conducts system architecture studies of new and existing IT systems to permit development of integrated systems that operate at low cost levels
  • Oversee and facilitate the evaluation and selection of hardware and software technology and product standards
  • Develop a road map of the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from current to future state
  • Influence at multiple levels on highly technical issues and challenges
External Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or relevant work experience required
  • 10-15+ years of experience in technology with at least 5 years in a technical leadership role, ideally a leadership role with a focus on architecture
  • 8+ years of combined software development and architecture experience
  • 5+ years experience in analyzing business requirements, recommending technical solutions, and writing technical specifications and/or requirements
  • Broad technology skills, with depth in several areas
  • Working knowledge of Agile (DevOps, CI/CD) methodologies and tools
  • Experience developing, architecting, and/or leading teams developing web-based applications
  • Experience in designing and supporting multi-tier application and cloud-based architectures
  • Strong understanding of relational databases
  • Solid knowledge of API platforms and specifications
  • Current understanding of best practices regarding system security measures
  • Understanding of business analysis techniques and processes
  • Knowledge of distributed compute and storage platforms
Internal Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or relevant work experience required
  • 10-15+ years of experience in technology with at least 5 years in a technical leadership role, ideally a leadership role with a focus on architecture
  • 8+ more years of combined software development and architecture experience
  • 5+ years' experience in analyzing business requirements, recommending technical solutions, and writing technical specifications and/or requirements
  • 5+ years of experience with .NET (Framework and Core) development with a focus on web-related frameworks like Angular Single Page Applications and RESTful APIs
  • 3+ years of experience with cloud computing. Azure and AWS experience is highly desired
  • Broad technology skills, with depth in several areas
  • Working knowledge of Agile (DevOps, CI/CD) methodologies and tools
  • Experience developing, architecting, and/or leading teams developing web-based applications
  • Experience in designing and supporting multi-tier application architectures
  • Strong understanding of relational databases
  • Solid knowledge of API platforms and specifications
  • Current understanding of best practices regarding system security measures
  • Understanding of business analysis techniques and processes
  • Knowledge of distributed compute and storage platforms
Required Skills:
  • Ability to speak to relational databases
  • Proficient in API platforms and specifications
  • Ability to speak on best practices regarding system security measures
  • Ability to speak on business analysis techniques and processes
  • Ability to speak on distributed compute and storage platforms
  • Ability to "connect the dots" when it comes to large system design and understand, communicate, and solve for enterprise scale technical integration concerns.
  • Project management and leadership skills
  • Ability to adapt to changing priorities
  • TOGAF certified
  • Excellent organizational skills with knowledge of different methodologies, tools and techniques.
  • Excellent communication skills in verbal and written English
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  • ID: #50018019
  • State: Texas Austin 73301 Austin USA
  • City: Austin
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2023-05-29
  • Deadline: 2023-07-27
  • Category: Et cetera