Sr. Infrastructure Architect

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Apply concepts of application architecture and service orientation to assist customer teams responsible for developing HA application requirements in specific functional areas.
• Coordinate work to prevent overlap and ensure alignment with Enterprise Architecture Framework, IT strategy, SDLC, strategic drivers, and standards.
• Prepare as-is and to-be application architecture artifacts including system connect diagrams, application reference models, software requirements documents, interface descriptions, data dictionaries, performance monitoring and logging specifications, high availability and scaling designs, DR concepts and designs, and application staging plans.
• Work with data and infrastructure architects and software program managers to ensure integrity, high availability, and scalability of application systems and plans within the context of the overall Enterprise Architecture.
• Develop current and future state application architectures, including business transformation, identifying risks and opportunities, capturing rationale for design decisions, and facilitating clear articulation of architectural artifacts.
• Follow industry standards and best practices to enable effective review processes for various technology paradigms within the transit industry.
• Analyze and review business capability architecture and translate it into effective information architecture, features, and functionalities.
• Translate user behavior into structured elements, attributes, process workflows, user scenarios, storyboards for Enterprise information systems.
• Guide construction of architecture review question sets and conduct fact-based object reviews of technology paradigms.
• Enforce business transformation and optimization through architectural due-diligence reviews.

Requirements

• Must have 15+ Years of Experience in design and development of solution experience architecture.
• Exceptional solution architecture experience and familiarity with architecture patterns and design with emphasis on performance tuning, logging, and monitoring.
• Experience with Microservices and Cloud, high availability/scaling solutioning, and software development skills.
• Strong analytical, verbal communication, and written communication skills.
• Experience using MS Visio or other visualization software to document application architecture.
• Proven ability to plan and deploy custom COTS and middleware application programs and process improvements.
• Experience managing teams of programmers for deploying large, complex web and mobile applications.
• Experience performing application architecture from conception to deployment of large government multi-agency solutions.

Nice to Have

• Experience in the transit industry.
• Experience integrating legacy applications or data sources across J2EE, MS.NET, and legacy mainframe or mini environments.
• At least three (3) years of experience implementing architectural patterns and designs for web and mobile applications.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing HA and scaling solutions in complex, multi-application architectures including Cloud.
• Expertise in integrating complex, HA designs within a complex network environment supporting multiple web and mobile applications.
• Experience planning and deploying a business process management solution and/or workflow engine within a large enterprise software deployment.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Communications, Finance, or related discipline.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive benefits
• Flexible paid time off options
• Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• STD, LTD, Supplemental life insurance and ADD&D
• Comprehensive 401k plan
• Paid Time Off