Responsibilities
The Workforce Technology team provides solutions for our business that enable mobility, office productivity, collaboration, and information sharing. Our goal is to ensure solutions securely meet or exceed requirements and enable the business to continue to grow and prosper. You will play a key role in designing and delivering innovative experiences for digital workers regardless of their location. Every day you will have the opportunity to provide technical leadership and vision across a breadth of technology solutions.
Responsibilities
The IT Solution Architect is responsible for maintaining a deep technical knowledge and thorough understanding of solution design, constraints and operational approaches. You will be responsible for designing end-to-end technology solutions that align with business requirements, enterprise architecture standards, security policies, and strategic objectives. The role bridges business needs and technical implementation, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, cost-effective, and supportable.
As an IT Solution Architect, you must be able to maintain effective relationships with all levels of management, as well as with internal and external customers. You will routinely collaborate with non-technical and technical resources and will present solution designs to senior leadership; clarity of communication is required. You must actively coach, mentor and teach others as well as use influence, expertise, and leadership to support other teams.
Additional Responsibilities
- Applies advanced knowledge of professional concepts and company objectives to resolve a wide range of moderately complex issues in creative and effective ways
- Subject matter expert in more than one area of responsibility; represents team within and outside own department
- Has significant autonomy over completion of day-to-day work and receives general instructions on new projects or assignments
- Defines, develops, communicates, and implements standards, processes, and procedures for the team or department; identifies and recommends process improvements
- Establishes, maintains, and fosters relationships both within and outside the team and department
- Monitors key performance metrics to ensure compliance of established standards, processes, and procedures
- Designs solutions using knowledge of business strategy, security, technologies, and architectural methods
- Evaluates and translates business requirements into technical designs that align with overall technology vision and customer expectations
- Gathers and identifies solution needs to assist in defining the architecture
- Collaborates with engineers and other architects on the development of solutions or enhancements.
- Develops, documents, and maintains high-level and detailed solution architecture documents
- Maintains knowledge of emerging architectural methods and technologies for application to the environment
- Assists with project planning; provides technical expertise to project teams and/or leads project teams within area/department
- Provides instruction and guidance to less senior team members on tasks and assignments; ensures deadlines are met
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Excellent analytical skills with the ability to use data for effective story telling
- Proven leadership, results orientation, and self-motivation traits
- Superb communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage an audience across a broad range of technical expertise and/or business acumen
- Demonstrates a high degree of collaboration; works well with others as it relates to generating ideas
- Prior success mentoring and developing IT professionals
- Proficient knowledge of project management concepts, from planning and inception, through implementation and support
- Must demonstrate flexibility and agility related to critical thinking and making decisions with complex considerations as it relates to business implications
- Must possess a high degree of impact and strategic influence, and constructively challenge prevailing thoughts and processes