mroads is looking for a "Domain Architect" for one of the direct clients in Plano, TX.
Responsibilities
· Domain Leadership Engagement
· Engage with the domain as part of the Domain Leadership Team.
· Drive consensus among the leadership on Technology Strategy.
· Validate technology feasibility of business case and concept proposals.
· Engagement on assigned Domain OKRs and other miscellaneous projects
· Work with domain stakeholders to understand business requirements
· Ensure all designs are approved per architecture guidelines and standards.
· Supporting Solution Architecture
· Partner with Solution Architects to create High-level design.
· Validate low-level designs presented by Solution architects.
· Provide guidance and thought leadership to drive fit-for-purpose solutions.
· Mentor Solution Architects
· Creating and maintaining Business capabilities and target state technology architecture
· Create business capability maps by interviewing various business stakeholders.
· Perform capability assessments on new projects and initiatives.
· Create various relevant capability heatmaps to help create technology roadmaps.
· Create value streams for the domain.
· Documenting Key decisions, artifacts, or other items as required
· Capture decisions, risks, impediments, and open items on any design items being discussed.
· Capture proper evidence of decisions.
· Ensure consensus of all relevant stakeholders is captured.
· Architecture Governance
· Provide oversight on all high level and low-level designs presented in Domain Architecture Office Hours.
· Approve designs that meet gating criteria.
· Make decisions using approved processes such as buy-vs-build.
· Represent the domain in all architectural governance routines.
· Cross Domain collaboration
· Work with other SME/Domain Architects to drive design consensus.
· Collaborate with other domain architects and domain architecture leader to identify cross domain impact on design.
· Provide education on any reusable design aspects that can be used across domains.
· Collaborate on other cross-domain initiatives.
Required
· Migrating or transforming legacy solutions to the cloud.
· Architecting/designing solutions built on cloud ideal but not required (AWS, Azure, GCP).
· Broad technology experience including cloud architecture, applications development, relational databases, NoSQL databases, analytics, machine learning, networking, security, storage, DevOps, containers, serverless, CI/CD, management and monitoring, cloud migrations, and IT transformation.
· Solid understanding of domain specific applications.
· Mastery of distributed applications, project life cycle, and the basics of technical operations (networks, data center, database, integration, and migration activities).
· Development Methodology – has mastered and understands common development models including waterfall and agile processes.
· Mastery of unit testing, software change management, software release management.
· Working knowledge of project management principles.
· Experience in estimating and measuring project size and scope.
· Presentation and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and technical teams.
· Excellent communication skills with an ability to right level conversations
