Enterprise Solution Architect

The candidate filling this Enterprise Solution Architect role will be responsible for articulating the architectural vision, conceptualizing and experimenting with alternative architectural approaches, develop and validate the architecture and high level solution design against business requirements. The individual will guide and mentor development teams on methodologies, processes and best practices.

The Enterprise Solution Architect will help teams follow envisioned business and technology direction through the fact that the enterprise solution architectural vision transcends the scope and lifespan of any individual project or effort.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:
* Articulate and document a solution architecture vision.
* Map business capabilities and services to IT solutions, 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, 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, improve comprehensibility and visibility of ORGANIZATION*s value to the business.
* Partner with business, Research and ORGANIZATION 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.
* 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, maintain a broad understanding of the business including customer and market trends. The candidate 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, envisioning how those tools could be used in improving the business processes.

Experience Level:
Unspecified

Requirements:
EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

EXPERIENCE:
* 10+ years of broad IT industry experience as architect, and application design in a variety of domains
* 5+ years in architectural role
* 10+ years business rules/rule driven system experience as an architect, designer and developer

VARIED EXPERIENCE IN FOLLOWING AREAS IS REQUIRED:
* Varied IT solutions design and development experience
* Architecture principles and frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, Gartner, DOD etc.)
* Application and Integration design methodologies, standards and best practices (SOA, OOAD, AOP)
* Business requirements gathering, Joint Application Design (JAD), Business Process Modeling (BPM) and Business Process Decomposition processes
* Full software development lifecycle (SDLC) experience
* UML and Business process modeling
* Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and business integration
* Industry standard processes (SDLC, CMMI, Change Mgmt, ITIL, etc.)
* Familiarity with User Interfaces (Web, GUI, Legacy, Handhelds) and usability methodologies
* Data warehouse design and data modeling
* Disaster recovery and business availability
* Vendor package selection (Leverage, Build and Buy decisions)
* Familiarity with Audit and compliance policies (SOX, HIPAA)
* Technical and Infrastructure architecture design experience is desirable

The following competencies are desirable:

Strategy Competency:
* Influence business strategy
* Translate business strategy into technical vision and strategy
* Understand business domains, customer and market trends
* Capture customer, organizational and business requirements on architecture
Organizational Politics Competency:
* Excellent communication skills
* Listen, network, influence
* Sell the vision, keep the vision alive
* Take and retake the pulse of all critical influencers of the architecture project
Consulting Competency:
* Be available, build "trusted advisor" relationships
* Understand what the teams want and need from architecture
* Help teams see the value of the architecture and understand how to use it successfully
* Mentor other architects and developers
Technology and Architectural Competency:
* Experience with industry standard architecture, design methodologies and processes
* UML Modeling and use of Sybase PowerDesigner
* Tradeoff analysis
* Prototype/experiment/simulate
* Prepare architectural documents and presentations
* Technology trend analysis/roadmaps
* Strategic thinking, be able to take an enterprise or system viewpoint
* Strong Java and web experience

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
Hands-on experience in one or more of the following technologies is required:
* Java, J2EE, EJB and JMS, Web services and XML
* Java Application Servers (WebSphere, JBoss)
* Web Servers
* C++ , .NET or COBOL development
* IBM MQ integration environments
* COGNOS and/or Oracle reporting environments
* IDMS, Oracle and/or SQL Server database technologies
* Windows, Z/OS, Solaris and Varieties of Linux operating systems

EDUCATION:
The candidate should have a Bachelor's degree, with coursework in the information processing or business-related curricula, or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and abilities can be acquired is necessary.

ABOUT ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, INC: ATS is an information technologies consulting company providing services to Fortune 500 companies nationwide. ATS specializes in providing full-service staffing solutions by providing technical and business personnel through staff supplementation and project engagements. The company has extensive contacts within its Fortune 500 client base and is able to access a large pool of talented and responsive professionals with proven records of accomplishment in both the technical and business fields.

ATS offers health coverage, 401K participation, Long Term Disability and Life Insurance.

Please refer to job code 08-00705 when responding to this ad.

Category:	Information Technology
Location:	Princeton, NJ
County:	Mercer County
ZIP Code:	08540
Pay Rate:	Open
Job Terms:	7-12 months (contract)
Company:	Advanced Technology Solutions
Phone:	732-918-4664
Fax:	732-918-4666