Domain Architect; Integrations

Job Summary

The Integration Domain Architect (DA) is a member of a delivery team, supporting both new development/product-based efforts and production support; and is considered the highest-level domain technology expert with a deep understanding of Mule Soft, microservice design, asynchronous services, cloud computing (AWS, Azure, and GCP), and Git Hub.

Essential Functions:

• The assessment of business requirements; approval of technical requirements; creation of technical specifications and solution design documents.
• Initial work item estimates and sizing for business prioritization and planning purposes.
• Presenting designs to the Enterprise Architecture team for review after initial design and prior to production implementation.
• The quality and integrity of a solution; and is ultimately responsible for its viability in the Production environment.
• Establish domain specific standards in adherence to, and in support of, Enterprise standards, strategy, and roadmaps.
• Guide a solution from concept to delivery - envision and create solutions that meet requirements; model the pieces of an infrastructure and their points of integration; prove the feasibility of a design; and can ultimately be implemented and supported in the Production environment.
• Provide hands-on, expert-level technical assistance to developers.
• Adhere to Enterprise Architecture (EA) standards and may also assist in the creation of EA standards, methodologies, and frameworks.
• Collaborates with management to establish protocols and processes for the discipline.
• Ensure that new technology solutions are designed for optimal access and usefulness; and to leverage existing technologies, as appropriate.
• Assist in creating the vision for future state technologies and architecture and participate in setting Enterprise standards and mid/long-term strategy/roadmaps, acting as domain specific subject matter experts.
• Apply architectural and engineering concepts to design a solution that meets operational requirements, such as scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, extensibility, flexibility, availability, and manageability.
• Translate business strategy and requirements into well-architected solutions.
• Participate and lead research and development efforts (proof of concept, prototypes), as subject matter experts, when introducing new technologies, in conjunction with team and Product Owners.
• Provide technical expertise to propose level of effort estimates (LOE), work breakdown structures, and technical resource planning for proposed and current work to support the work intake process.
• Lead and define solution architecture to support delivering high impact products in a fast-paced environment.
• Create and maintain logical architecture documentation.
• Assist managers with developing the service level agreements (SLAs) and deployment of key performance measures.
• Participate in various phases of the SDLC to perform QA/architectural review functions, and to ensure adherence to Enterprise Architecture (EA) technology standards and project specific solutions architecture (i.e., design reviews).
• Keep current and informed of domain related technologies and best practices.
• Serve as a technical owner and point of contact for domain specific solutions.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to team members in the areas of technical skills and competency.

Minimum Education and/or

Experience:

• B.S. in Computer Science, Information Systems, or 15+ Years IT related work with Infrastructure Services and Application Services.
• 5+ years of experience in event driven architecture.
• 10+ years of IS / business experience, more specifically programming, engineering and/or systems analysis. Has a broad level of understanding surrounding information systems.
• Experience delivering business process / workflow solutions is required.
• Certifications - TOGAF, Mule Soft Certified Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect or other solution architect certification.

• Experience analysing and designing business solutions.
• Expert level of technical knowledge and understanding of architecture, application systems design and integration.
• Anticipates internal and or external business challenges and/or regulatory issues; recommends process, product or service improvements.
• Ability to gain buy-in on proposed solutions.
• Acts in accordance with objectives and strategic plan; provides strategic or conceptual advice and updates on project milestones and achievement of objectives.
• Anticipates and solves unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business; uses conceptual thinking to develop solutions.
• Comfortable with complex heterogeneous systems.
• Strong written, presentations and verbal communications skills.
• Ability to evolve solutions from current to future states, corresponding to varying levels of solution maturity.
• Experience in an agile environment that includes exposure to the following:
  • Continuous integration and delivery
  • Dev Ops (Experience with automating builds and…