Architect, Enterprise - Sr.Posted: November 15, 2009
Theres quite a distance between wondering and knowing. And for patients waiting for answers to important health questions, its a road they want to travel as quickly as possible. At Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, we understand urgency. But more than speed, we focus our energies on accuracy. Currently we are seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect Main Duties / Job Function Provides overall direction, guidance, and definition of an enterprises architecture to effectively support the Corporate Business Strategy. Responsibilities include researching, analyzing, designing, proposing, and delivering solutions that are appropriate for the business and technology strategies. Leads and directs work others. 1. Candidate will lead architecture planning efforts, work closely with application architects to ensure applications are developed and maintained within the context of the enterprise architecture. 2. Interfaces across several business areas, acting as visionary to proactively assist in defining the direction for future projects 3. Responsible for conception of solutions, building consensus, and the selling and execution of such solutions. 4. Designs complex systems at the component level, makes strategic technology choices, and directly supervise the quality of designs and implementation. 5. Candidate will have a wide degree of creativity and latitude to management of over 40+ highly skilled employees. 6. Candidate will also help with difficult problems (trouble shooting), design/support of new systems/configurations, vendor management, performance testing, capacity modeling and analysis, etc. 7. Candidate will conduct architecture reviews and audits. 8. Arbitrates disagreements among engineers and make decisions where needed without damaging relationships. 9. Coaches, mentors, and delegates to engineers to facilitate their development. 10. Candidate will perform research needed to fully understand details of technologies being utilized by enterprise projects. 11. Integrate various architectures (both old and new) for effective high performance and high volume processing. 12. Evaluates vendor proposals for assigned projects with respect to conformance and consistency with IT standards. 13. Perform other duties as assigned. Required Knowledge: Necessary job knowledge of factual data, methods, process and theoretical knowledge. Incumbent should possess the knowledge, skills and experience usually obtained by: 1. Minimum 14+ years of IT work experience in multiple IT areas and 4+ years of relevant architecture experience. 2. BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent work experience required; MS preferred 3. Proven extensive architecture planning, management and governance experience with legacy systems are a must. 4. Comfortably moves between highly varying levels of abstraction from business strategy to IT strategy to high-level technical design to detailed design to implementation. 5. Clearly documents and communicates objectives, requirements, and designs at these different levels of abstraction to both technical and non-technical audiences. 6. Quickly and reasonably estimates capital, schedule, and human resources costs of proposed solutions. Compares, contrasts, and prioritizes among alternatives approaches while assessing risk both quantitatively and qualitatively. 7. Uses seasoned judgment to suggest approaches that optimize among customer needs, business constraints, and technological realities. 8. Influences and communicates effectively with non-technical audiences including senior business executives and managers. 9. Proven management leadership skills. 10. Knowledge of relevant products and technologies including: • Databases: Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Non-relational databases, Data Warehouse • Middleware: CORBA, COM/DCOM, J2EE, Message-Oriented Middleware, Transaction Servers, SOAP/XML • EAI: Message/Integration Broker, Process Integrator, Adapter development and configuration • Platforms: IBM-MVS, HP-UX, DEC-OpenVMS, Intel/Alpha-NT • Software Engineering: Design Patterns, Distributed Architecture, O-O Concepts, Data Modeling, UML • Programming Language: Java, C/C++, Perl, Smalltalk, VB, COBOL, and other legacy languages • Networking: TCP/IP, WAN, VPN, Firewall, Proxy Server • Familiarity with security, encryption, and privacy technologies 11. Demonstrated leadership skills, project management skills, strong written and verbal skills, and organizational skills. Proven ability to drive process with indirect authority to project team members. 12. Experience in full software life cycle development Quest Diagnostics has many career opportunities for individuals whose talent, initiative and dedication will complement our belief that the patient comes first and that values do matter. We work to earn our customers? trust every day by providing the highest quality products and services in a professional, accessible and informative way. Our workforce is diverse and talented and believes in our vision: "Dedicated people improving the health of patients through unsurpassed diagnostic insights." Please refer to job code 311513 when responding to this ad.
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