Applications Architect

The person in this position:

• Is a technical expert in all phases of system development. They must understand business, business insight and have a broader understanding of multiple business areas in order to successfully maintain, enhance, and develop systems and applications in Business Systems Engineering (BSE).
• Is responsible for technical research of current industry trends, emerging technologies, system integration and configuration for meeting functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Is responsible for clear communication and coordination between stakeholders and IT leadership, project managers, other developers, and other implementation technicians to address various issues, resolve query issues, communicate project status, milestones, delays, challenges, risks and risk mitigation plans.
• Is responsible for translating the business requirements into functional requirements and IT processes required to prepare Technical Design Document (TDD), Solution Design Document (SDD), high-level process flow diagrams, designs and requirement traceability matrices of solutions.
• Is responsible for validation of system changes and perform UAT.
• Is responsible to resolve issues and concerns preventing user acceptance testing sign-off.
• Is responsible for integrating solutions between internal and external applications into the production environment.

Applications Architect responsibilities include but may not be limited to the following:

• Gather and analyze business requirements and prepare functional requirements, design documentation, technical specification documents to develop systems.
• Provide structured, detailed analysis of business processes, requirements and documentation.
• Functions as a technical consultant or researcher.
• Perform technical research and evaluation of technologies, tools, databases, methods, etc.
• Analyze detailed requirements and documentation.
• Program and implement efficient solutions for business requirements.
• Contribute on project planning, organization, implementation.
• Contribute to activity definition, activity sequencing, activity resource estimating, activity duration estimating, WBS development.
• Contribute to risk identification, tracking, analysis.
• Contribute to issue management and tracking.
• Effective communications management
• Effective communication among project stakeholders
• Coordinate activities with staff required to support the project.
• Aids staff in the preparation of procurement documents and evaluation of proposals and contract negotiations
• Provide weekly status reports to the project manager.
• Assist in user training in a train-the-trainer environment.
• Meet customer expectations with the project.
• Create, update, and execute test scenarios following the methodology of development testing, system testing, and user acceptance testing.
• Assist the production implementation as needed.

Mandatory Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 5 years of experience as an Applications Architect on successful, enterprise level information technology projects
• Model and apply software engineering methods and techniques to the design, definition, development, evaluation, integration, and/or support of IT solutions
• Work independently or cooperatively with other software developers.
• Function as a technical consultant or researcher
• Perform analysis and troubleshooting of system defects and issues
• Experience with business analysis to gather and document requirements
• Experience creating test plans, test cases, and performance testing
• Ability to code according to specifications with minimal defects
• Use defined procedures to configure, test and debug software
• Experience designing quality control test procedures
• Use defined procedures to configure, test and debug software
• Investigates, analyzes and resolves problems on software products
• Handle portions of projects with minimal supervision which may include solution evaluation, data analysis, first draft written communications and client interactions
• Gathers and evaluates client capabilities and needs.
• Assist with technology solution architecture design and installation
• Experience in programming to adhere to ADA compliance in web applications
• Accountable for expertise in all phases of projects
• Experience in automating data sharing processes
• Experience in delivering assignments in the agreed schedule, to the correct technical specification, and within the approved budget
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to code in the following environments and/or using the tools:
  • JBOSS EAP 7.0 and higher
  • Java 1.8 or higher
  • J2EE (JSP, EJB, JPA)
  • Component Based Frameworks (JSF, Wicket, )
  • Spring Framework
  • AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming)
  • JPA & Hibernate
  • Javascript
  • MS-SQL Server 2012 or higher
  • SQL Stored procedures, triggers, views, etc.)
  • Oracle Databases
  • XML data exchanges (including xml schemas, XSLT, XSD)
  • XML parsers (including extensive use of SAX/DOM/STAX parsers and XPath)
  • Web Services
  • Linux
  • HTML
  • CSS

Preferred Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience
• National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) standard
• Junit
• JavaScript Frameworks (Angular)
• MS-Project
• MS-Visio
• Eclipse (IDE)
• PrimeFaces
• JasperReports
• Alfresco