Senior Application Architect (Remote)

The Enterprise EyeQ team within the development group at IHS Markit is seeking a Senior Application Architect to lead key development and delivery efforts of Enterprise EyeQ solutions. This team is responsible for the development and support of Enterprise EyeQ product and adding new features and enhancements to enable strategic and commercial roadmap items in the product line.

The Senior Application Architect is a key leadership role in the organization that leads multiple development teams and produces enterprise architecture models and strategies that organize and rationalize systems , products, and information assets to ensure business and technology alignment. Deliverables include architecture assessments, design details around key architectural considerations , operational business architecture, blueprints and roadmaps, reference implementations, and technology assessments. This role is instrumental in providing technology leadership within the group and working the several workstream leads to bring the solution to fruition .

Skills and Experience

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science

• Experience designing solutions founded on strong fundamentals of Computer Science and not hust out-of-the-box frameworks and packages

• 10 years overall industry experience as an architect or developer

• Prior experience i n leading one or many groups of developers from ideation to architecture, design and development phases all the way through to successful delivery

• Experience in working with Product organizations, in understanding the requirements and translating them to effective solutions

• Excellent coordination and communication skills

• Expertise in all facets of application development including but not limited to web applications using primarily Java , JavaScript, Restful APIs, high volume data transactions and working with complex problems and providing creative but sound solutions.

• Experience in A WS could native application development

• Experience with federated authentication/authorization systems - SAML, JWT, OAuth2, etc.

• Extensive knowledge of Agile development methodologies and end-to-end software development lifecycle

• Experienced in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), API-centric architecture, Object-Oriented Analysis, and Design (OOAD) principles

• Expertise in creating architectural diagrams and user flows in modeling software like Visio or LucidChart

• Proven experience collaborating with subject matter experts among various functional groups

• Strong problem-solving skills - ability to evaluate and solve complex problems in conventional and non-conventional ways

Duties & Accountabilities

• Works with business units to translate business strategy into discrete capabilities and helps to identify technology capability gaps in systems

• Provides solutions and expertise to optimize cloud use based on industry best practices and internal guidelines

• Collaborating with business units to provide a high-level, all-inclusive vision of enterprise solutions and development initiatives

• Defining key technical initiatives that support budgets. Use cloud financial engineering practices to reduce costs through longer term planning

• Develops and maintains an architectural blueprint and evolutionary roadmap that defines and communicates the strategic direction for these architectures in support of business and technical strategies

• Recommends solutions and/or new technologies based upon business value drivers, proven architecture principles, patterns and return on investment

• Defines the architectures required to implement large complex cross-functional projects

• Understanding and communicating strategic themes, and other key business drivers for architecture, to product development teams and nontechnical stakeholders

• Establishes overall systems architecture vision and ensures specific components are appropriately designed and leveraged ; drives the holistic vision of Enterprise Architecture

• Influencing common modeling, design, and coding practices

• Provides transparency through well-defined metrics, automation, and reporting

• Defines the architectures required to implement large complex cross-functional projects transitioning into cloud

• Implements architecture reference implementation and helps to enforce standards

• Promoting Continuous Delivery and DevOps capabilities

• Collecting generating, and analyzing innovative ideas and technologies to use across the business

• Anticipates areas where architecture standards may need to be developed that are in-line with customer, IT and industry standards

• Facilitating the reuse of code, components, and proven patterns

• Synchronizing the following disciplines across Solutions whenever applicable:

• System and data security and quality

• Production infrastructure

• Scalability, performance, and other Nonfunctional Requirements (NFRs)

• Explains how the roadmap maintains and delivers cost effectiveness, business value, and competitiveness

• Develops innovative technology approaches to solve business problems and is usually sought out as an expert, particularly for cloud architecture

• Collaborates with Information Security teams on all cloud initiatives to continually improve the security posture

• Experience presenting to an executive audience

• Works directly with product development teams to accelerate adoption of native cloud capabilities

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