Hi,
Role: Enterprise Architect
Location: Downtown Austin, TX
Duration: 10+ Months
This role will be onsite in Downtown Austin 3/4 weeks a month. It is initially a 6 month contract and they will extend if they like the individual, but they will not convert to fulltime. Interview process is likely going to be two rounds. They need someone that is a know it all and can give guidance to their infrastructure operations team and steer them. Looking for a high level consultant that can understand their landscape and make architectural recommendations to the team.
We use the SPARX tool extensively, and we depend on a strong knowledge of TOGAF and general EA principals. The EA role is a strategic position, so find me someone that’s used our toolset, who has created governing boards, is TOGAF level 1 and 2 certified, and has lead a few standards boards.
Principal Accountabilities:
- Study and understand the existing business, systems, data, and technology landscape
- Leverage the Sparx EA platform to both retrieve and store architectural information
- Develop all new and modifying any existing architectural models in the Sparx EA platform
- Work closely with business relationship managers to understand the business needs of the various divisions
- Assess incoming technology Demands in ServiceNow to develop high-level solution architectures that meet business needs
- Conduct market research to understand the cost of implementation for the derived high-level solution architecture
- Gather input from business and technical stakeholders in the development of proposed high-level solution architectures
- Present developed high-level architectures to project teams at project kick-off to provide context for the project’s work
- Contribute to the development of project charters and requirements documents
- Contribute to, review, and approve detailed technical design documents on projects
- Contribute to the development and evaluation of requests for proposal (RFPs)
- Develop detailed financial net present value (NPV) analyses of various solution options
- Contribute to as-built technical diagrams
Experience and Qualifications:
- Experienced developing Service Oriented architectures
- Experienced in developing enterprise architecture across the entire EA stack – business architecture, data and systems architecture, and technical architecture
- Experienced developing Enterprise architectures to meet business needs
- Experienced developing financial models of proposed solutions
- Experienced working/configuring/managing the SPARX Enterprise Architect Application
- Experienced with SQL with any database.
- TOGAF – Level 1 & 2 Required
Required Skills : – Sparx EA – TOGAF level 1 & 2 certified
Notes : This role will be onsite in Downtown Austin 3/4 weeks a month. It is initially a 6 month contract and they will extend if they like the individual, but they will not convert to fulltime. Interview process is likely going to be two rounds. They need someone that is a know it all and can give guidance to their infrastructure operations team and steer them. Looking for a high level consultant that can understand their landscape and make architectural recommendations to the team.
Selling points for candidate : The plan here is to send the end client a rock star that checks every box regardless. Travel is covered.
