Senior Principal IT Architect
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AWSAzureCloudPMP
Senior Solution Architect
Sierra Nevada Corporation
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • North Carolina, Virginia
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AWSAzureCloud
About the role
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand their needs, objectives, and constraints.
- Analyze current systems and processes to identify areas for improvement and propose scalable solutions.
- Design and implement robust, high-quality architectural solutions that meet business requirements and align with the company’s technical strategy.
- Ensure solutions are consistent with enterprise architecture standards and best practices.
- Lead the development of architectural frameworks, patterns, and standards to promote consistency across the organization.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams throughout the project lifecycle.
- Conduct technical evaluations and recommend tools, technologies, and processes to improve productivity and efficiency.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for architectural designs and solutions.
- Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and maintainable by conducting regular reviews and assessments.
- Act as a liaison between technical teams and business units, facilitating clear communication and understanding.
- Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies, and incorporate relevant advancements into the organization’s architecture.
- Provide expert-level guidance and leadership on technology strategy and architecture (Functional Architect duties).
- Collaborate with executive stakeholders to align technology solutions with overall business objectives and goals.
- Perform business and technical requirements and create conceptual and logical designs for implementation readiness.
- Manage relationships with end-users, senior management, and within IT in a matrixed-resource environment.
- Support pre-project design planning activities and ensure a complete conceptual and logical design is produced for implementation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Typically, 10+ years experience as a Solution Architect or similar role.
- Extensive knowledge of enterprise architecture, system integration, and software development methodologies.
- Proficiency in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and related services.
- Strong understanding of security, scalability, and performance considerations in solution design.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically and strategically.
- Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence and drive consensus among stakeholders.
- Experience with Agile and DevOps practices (preferred).
- Relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, AWS Certified Solutions Architect) (preferred).
- Minimum 10+ years progressive experience in business systems analysis, IT project management or development, or functional architect role (for Functional Architect TA).
- Business Analysis or related certification, such as PMI-PBA, CCBA, or BRMP (for Functional Architect TA).
- Experience creating logical and process flow diagrams (for Functional Architect TA).
- Experience with a modeling tool such as Abacus (preferred).
- Basic project management understanding – both waterfall and agile (preferred).
- Experience performing change management (OCM) (preferred).
- Previous technical experience, such as in a development or infrastructure related role (preferred).
- Current/active Top Secret with SCI eligibility U.S. Security Clearance required.
- U.S. Citizenship required.
