System Architect

• CLIENT LOCATION: 4822 Madison Yards Way Madison Wisconsin 53705
• WORK ARRANGEMENT: 95% Remote. Candidates must be WI residents or willing to move to WI at their own expense before starting the role. This position can work primarily remotely or in the office. There is a requirement that the candidate must come to the office once a month.

DETAILS

The Systems Architect (SA) ensures the overall system of applications databases and infrastructures meets current and future states technical business and security requirements. The SA considers the evolving business functional and technical requirements of multiple business units and stakeholders to propose and evaluate highly complex architectures including COTS and custom software local and cloud hosting environments and various data sources and data integration needs. This role performs several functions as part of ETFs overall modernization effort including:

• Serve as a lead advisor to technical decisionmakers.
• Design and evaluate system architecture in coordination with technical and business staff.
• Evaluate solutions with consideration to available resources development processes and business constraints.
• Coordinate and liaise between various technical and 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.
• Coordinate and liaise across projects to ensure technical decisions made within project teams are consistent with the overall system architecture.
• Conduct direct external research with outside peer organizations to evaluate systems and architectures including implementation of like systems and use that information to drive robust solutions within ETF.
• Perform a costbenefit analysis of architectural decisions like cloud hosting options including not only direct costs but also longterm implications for supporting development and customer service.
• Evolve system design and framework as new components are added or system requirements change.

Key Skills: (Need Majority; 3 Years)

• Architect Roles
• System Architecture
• Integration Architecture
• Lead

Nice to Have Skills (Need X or more of the following):