Systems Architect
Posted Today by SECURE RPO LLC
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
Remote
Summary: The Systems Architect role involves designing, planning, and implementing complex technical architectures to meet the evolving needs of various business units. The position requires effective communication and leadership skills to guide multi-disciplinary teams and ensure alignment with overall system architecture. The architect will also evaluate solutions and conduct research to drive modernization efforts within the organization. This role is critical in transitioning from legacy systems to modern solutions while considering business, technical, and security requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, plan, and implement technical, integration, solution, and system architectures.
- Lead platform modernization efforts and guide the transition from legacy to modern systems.
- Serve as a lead advisor to technical decision makers.
- Evaluate system architecture in coordination with technical and business staff.
- Coordinate between various technical functional areas to ensure a coherent system.
- Conduct external research to evaluate systems and architectures.
- Perform cost-benefit analysis of architectural decisions.
- Evolve system design and framework as requirements change.
Key Skills:
- 5+ years of experience in designing and implementing technical architectures.
- Experience leading platform modernization.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams.
- Strong facilitation skills.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple complex demands.
- Background in vendor systems, integration platforms, and data management solutions is a plus.
Salary (Rate): £72,000 yearly
City: Madison
Country: United States
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Top Skills & Years of Experience:
5+ years of experience needed in the following:
Designing, planning, and implementing technical, integration, solution, and system architectures
Experience leading platform modernization, guiding the transition from legacy to modern systems
Effective written and verbal communication to a variety of audiences
Effective facilitation
Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams toward a common goal
Ability to set priorities and follow through to ensure completion related to multiple complex demands that impact multiple teams
Nice to Have Skills:
Background and experience with vendor systems, integration platforms, quality assurance, data management solutions, and custom development are all skills/technologies that would be valuable to see.
The Systems Architect (SA) ensures the overall system of applications, databases and infrastructures meets the technical, business and security requirements required for both current and future state. The SA considers the evolving business, functional, and technical requirements of multiple business units and stakeholders to propose and/or evaluate highly complex architectures including COTS and custom software, local and cloud hosting environments, and multiple data sources and data integration needs. This role performs several functions as part of ETF s overall modernization effort including:
Serve as a lead advisor to technical decision makers.
Design and evaluate system architecture in coordination with technical and business staff.
Evaluates solutions with consideration to available resources, development processes, and business constraints.
Coordinates and liaisons between various technical functional areas such as security, middleware, help desk, application development, data management, and business intelligence to help ensure the components of the system lead to a coherent whole.
Coordinates and liaisons across projects to ensure technical decisions made within project teams are consistent with the overall system architecture.
Conducts direct external research with outside peer organizations to evaluate systems and architectures, including implementation of like systems and uses that information to drive robust solutions within ETF.
Performs cost-benefit analysis of architectural decision like cloud hosting options, including not only direct costs but long-term implications to support, development, and customer service.
Evolves system design and framework as new components are added or system requirements change.