Requisition ID: 210502

Posting Locations: Charlotte

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Job Overview

The Enterprise Architect is an experienced and seasoned IT architect with a broad range of technical skills, and a deep understanding of software, hardware, and technologies used across the enterprise. The Enterprise Architect will provide guidance, standards, and technical capabilities for IT to meet business objectives at the organizational level. The Enterprise Architect will partner with the EA Director/Manager and Architecture team to document standards, promote stewardship of governance, and help Solution Architects with roll out of standard tools and technologies. The individual will be familiar with best practices and industry standards, as well as emerging technologies not used by CCCI. This experience will reflect software development, architecture, infrastructure, security and data, as well as methodologies and strategies to standardize with flexibility across the enterprise. The Enterprise Architect will also need to be able to develop business knowledge, share the knowledge and make technical decisions that enable the business to operate more efficiently and meet business objectives. The Enterprise Architect is accountable for guidance, standards, and technical capabilities at the organization level.

Duties & Responsibilities

Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the organization’s business processes, goals, and strategies
Assist EA Director/Manager in the development and maintenance of an organizational level 1-, 3-, and 5-year EA roadmap aligned to business objectives
Partner with IT Directors and Business Partners to align business needs and IT requirements at the organization level
Develop standard frameworks that align CCCI’s IT tools, technology, infrastructure and security with business processes/data to improve the efficiency and productivity of business operations
Partner with Solution Architects to produce and maintain a connected, enterprise-wide view of capability mappings
Partner with Solution Architects to produce and maintain documentation of applications and dependencies across the enterprise
Review and align on the organization’s enterprise strategies to ensure cohesive and effective implementation across all business functions
Proactively identify areas of improvement in the current IT environment such as consolidating duplicative technologies and come up with solutions to solve
Stay current with emerging technologies, in collaboration with fellow architects and Domain Experts, that are relevant to CCCI business objectives, advocating for innovative solutions that deliver added value
Establish and promote IT standards and guidance for consistent use of technologies and tools at CCCI
Provide technical guidance and knowledge sharing to EA team
Collaborate with Solution Architects, Infrastructure Architects, Security Architects, Data Architects, and other Domain Experts to promote alignment with security, infrastructure, delivery and EA policies / best practices in technology decision and solution design
Document standard organizational level IT solutions to common use cases
Maintain a listing of organizational level architectural tech debt and advocate for initiatives to remediate
Create architecture templates that other architects will use to apply EA standards and guidelines to individual projects / initiatives
Review architecture documents produced by other architects to ensure they align with the overall EA vision

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

To be successful in this position the individual needs to have:
Excellent communication skills
Ability to mentor and coach others
Ability to work with the Business, IT Directors, Architects, PMO, Delivery Teams and a variety or other roles to solve business problems leveraging technology
Good presentation and explanatory skills, with the ability to present/convey solutions in a non-technical manner
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
An understanding of, and ability to use, cloud design patterns to steer business requirements into enterprise-wide technical strategies
Knowledge of security design techniques
Ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks and ability to apply concepts that work within the organization
Experience with technical, application, and information architecture delivery/documentation techniques and methodologies
Knowledge of application, business, cloud, data, infrastructure, and security architecture disciplines
Leadership expectations include proactively guiding developers, leads, and other architects related to system knowledge and technologies and processes

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree (4 years) or equivalent Technology Certification
Knowledge acquired through 7+ years of work experience spanning multiple IT disciplines/domains, such as technical architecture, application development, middleware, database management, cloud management, mobile management, data integrations and exchange frameworks, agile delivery, CI/CD

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree (4 years) in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
5+ Years of Agile Delivery in a Matrixed Organizational Structure
5+ Years of CI/CD experience - Tools, Frameworks and best practices

Work Environment

Position is Charlotte, NC based with need to be in the office 3+ days per week

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