Job Purpose and Impact

• The Advisor, Architecture job leads the development and implementation of highly complex frameworks that align the organization's information technology infrastructure with business processes and enterprise data to improve the efficiency of business operations. As a recognized subject matter expert in architecture, this job partners with leadership to achieve strategic objectives through establishing a foundational technology architecture. This job recommends architecture improvements and the development of new architecture services based on emerging technology trends.

Key Accountabilities

• RELATIONSHIP MAPPING: Maps and reviews relationships between different components of highly complex information technology systems, such as technology end users, systems software and hardware, system capabilities, and information transmission networks.
• DEPENDENCY IDENTIFICATION: Reviews key technology interactions and dependencies across systems and platforms to evaluate the organization's ability to achieve integration, compatibility, functionality and performance targets.
• COST EVALUATION: Evaluates total cost of ownership and return on investment of various highly complex information technology platform and system alternatives to support architecture decision making.
• SOLUTION STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION: Partners collaboratively to establish the direction, road map, and standards for the functional, process and technical architectural solutions.
• SERVICE ADVISORY: Provides consultation and recommendations to business leaders for a medium to large portfolio of architecture services.
• DOMAIN SOLUTIONS: Evaluates domain architecture solutions for a medium to large portfolio of services.
• THOUGHT LEADERSHIP: Provides thought leadership for developing new architecture services by applying expert knowledge of architecture trends and standard methodologies.
• CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Fosters continuous improvement efforts by providing thought leadership in simplifying and optimizing processes, improving data integrity, and using technical platforms.
• STANDARDS, BEST PRACTICES & ROADMAPS: Ensures alignment to technical architecture standards for platforms, software, procedures for use by internal and external resources, and communicates and documents current state architectures and future state architectures, identifies gaps and provides input to roadmaps and future state architectures.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 6 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 10 years or more of relevant experience.