Role: Solutions Architect
Duration: 8+ Months
Location: Buffalo, NY
Job Description:
- Working with the PM, they will shepherd the technical part of the project through the SSDLC through some of these high level steps:
- Defining a project by:
- Reviewing the PIF to ensure the suggested solution is still valid, altering where necessary.
- JADing with the BA and other IT Teams to define the efforts surrounding the project. This is a high level definition of the project and its various phases.
- JADing with the development teams to get their efforts further defined, estimates clarified and have this definition entered into TFS.
- Working with QA and ITIL to define the promotion steps to move the solution from environment to environment
- Working with the PM to define the technical aspects of the project.
- Defining the turn over to prod support to ensure they’re aware of what is coming into the production environment.
- They will be the technical lead for Enterprise projects going through our SSDLC and work with:
- Development teams within IT
- Integration team (SOA)
- ECM Team (Correspondence)
- .Net team (Siebel, .Net)
- EDI Team
- Delivery Teams within IT
- Enterprise QA
- Business Analysts
- Project Management
- Development teams outside of IT
- ETL
- EDW
- Operational Teams within IT
- Networking
- DBA team
- System Administration
- IT Ops
- ITIL
- EA (Enterprise Architecture)
- Business teams
- ECSO
- Business Owners
- Subject Matter Experts
- Provide technical leadership and consulting across the organization, from strategic decision making through to the project planning level.
- Provide technical direction by developing/recommending alternatives and creative solutions that are both effective and efficient in cost and process.
- Develop collaborative working relationships with Independent Health business unit leaders and system users to understand business requirements, service expectations and priorities/ preferences for the organization’s systems.
- Bring forth an enterprise perspective in all work activities.
- Collaborate with other Architects and other resources to create, refine and implement organizational design and development standards.
- Develop and maintain high level design plans for the logical and technical structure for IT systems and processes.
- Gain approval and organizational commitment for systems, infrastructure and software plans from appropriate IT and business unit leaders.
- Facilitate Requests for Information/Requests for Proposal to make strategic technology choices based on business requirements and information systems strategy, principles and structure.