Technical Architect – Enterprise Systems

What We Offer:

• Salary: Competitive range of $130,000 - $165,000 per year. This range reflects the budgeted compensation for this role. The final offer will depend on experience, skills, and location.
• Bonus: This role offers a competitive bonus opportunity, awarded at the company's discretion and based on both overall business performance and your individual contributions.
• Tuition Waiver: Enjoy a tuition waiver after 6 months of employment for you AND your immediate family offered at UTI and Concorde campuses
• Paid Time Off: Competitive paid time off programs for employees (Vacation, Sick, Flexible)
• Retirement Matching: 50% match on the first 6% of your contributions after 90 days
• Paid Parental Leave: 4 weeks of paid leave for both birthing and non-birthing parents to bond with a new baby
• Competitive Insurance: Health, vision, and dental coverage for you and your dependents
• Pet Insurance: Competitive coverage for your furry family members through ASPCA
• Health Plan Enrollment: Eligibility starts first of the month following completing one full month of employment

• Provides technical guidance to IT and business executives based upon both short and long-term business objectives
• Key contributor in the development of long-term technology architecture strategies focused on software development and applications delivery in support of key corporate strategies with an emphasis on ability to scale
• Leads highly complex design and development efforts by effectively communicating technology vision & roadmap to keep team members informed and aligned
• Responsible for providing technical direction and leadership in the architecture, design, development, and deployment of technology frameworks
• Cultivates a culture of security while providing technical guidance and mentoring to the software development and applications delivery teams on security best practices.
• Works closely with IT Security to respond to and address security concerns
• Partners with IT leadership in the review of technology requests at the beginning of the funnel
• to assist in defining the business problem to recommend appropriate solutions.

• Develops IT architecture, cloud policies, and operating standards. Monitors compliance and influences changes to standards when necessary.

• Continually researches current and emerging technologies and when appropriate builds

  business cases to propose changes where needed. If implemented, develops mastery skills

  prior to deployment of new technologies, while developing a training plan for technical staff.

• Closely collaborates with IT leadership to develop enterprise technology roadmaps,

  modernization plans and cost management strategies

• Builds and/or directs the development of software development templates/patterns/techniques

  and partners with solution delivery teams to adopt as a means of standardization and

  streamlining the development process.

• Communicates technology architecture to stakeholders and collaborates and coordinates with

  existing domain technical subject matter experts in the formalization and adoption of IT

  development standards

• Assures solutions not only are a fit for the specific business purpose but also closely align with

  the technical standards and guidelines.

• Supports the architectural aspects of all application projects within the IT portfolio

• Directs the identification and recommendation of appropriate solutions, upgrades,

  replacements, or decommissioning options incorporating business and technology productivity,

  usability, and total cost of ownership

• Serves as the Product Owner for IT Technical Debt by maintaining a backlog and collaborating

  with key stakeholders to prioritize

• Proactively collaborates with teams to maintain supported version and patch levels with intense

  focus on security standards and optimization.

• Assess the business impact of technical decisions and makes recommendations as appropriate

  to mitigate risk.

• Serves as a consultant to all IT Software Development and Applications Delivery teams, and as

  needed, will take on development activities for new and highly complex solution development.

• Evaluates 3rd Party Software solutions for technology architecture and systems integrations

  capabilities and provides recommendations to leadership.

• Contributes to dynamic and high performing team growth through periodic coaching to

  subordinate and peer positions and serves as a technical lead to other team members. Is

  looked upon to be a mentor across teams.

• Acts as a change champion and supervises other subordinate employees if called upon

• Assists IT leadership in evaluating the skills of hiring candidates and current Engineering staff

• Other duties as assigned

• 7-10+ years of information technology integration (or related) experience
• 2+ years of IT leadership or project management experience
• 3+ years of experience with Microsoft tech stack and Azure
• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or related field or equivalent industry certification and experience
• Consulting (or related) experience strongly preferred
• Professional and technical certifications preferred
• Expert knowledge of holistic technology integration solutions
• Strong knowledge of system architecture frameworks, including on premise and cloud
• Working knowledge of applicable regulatory requirements (e.g., SOX, NIST, etc.) as they relate to data integrity and privacy

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Advanced system design and development skills, preferably with Microsoft products
• Proficient with Windows OS, SQL, web services, ETL, and MS Office technologies
• Adept at applying disparate elements of information to solve complex problems
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where deadlines are essential
• Competent in organizing, planning, and prioritizing work
• Consistent in providing appropriate guidance while maintaining confidentiality (as necessary) and professional decorum

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