Enterprise Applications Architect

6 hours ago


Richmond, Virginia, United States Commonwealth of Virginia Full time
Job Summary

The Virginia Retirement System (VRS) is seeking an experienced IT professional to serve as the Enterprise Applications Architect. This role will be responsible for providing thought leadership and assisting technical and non-technical staff in application analysis and architecture of business solutions activities.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide expertise in service-oriented architecture, web services, and Application Programming Interfaces
  • Remain proficient in understanding containers, container orchestration, auto-scaling, advanced deployment models, CI/CD with GitOps, databases (MS SQL, Mongo, Redis, etc) and pipeline customization
  • Design open-source stack of trusted, high-performing Kubernetes solutions and taking disparate business problems and delivering the best technology solutions for large scale applications
  • Develop and maintain software development patterns for multiple development teams
  • Provide technical expertise and direction on the architecture, design, development and implementation of innovative solutions that address business needs and help achieve agency strategic goals
  • Own the vision and roadmap for architecture and strategic technical direction for our enterprise-class software, most of which is custom-developed in-house
  • Work with peers to develop the next generation of Enterprise Applications architectures to take advantage of new and emerging technologies
  • Create, implement and ensure compliance with application architecture and development methodologies based on industry best practices and the defined agency SDLC process
  • Stay current with industry architecture and development methodology best practices and creating and implementing a continuous improvement process regarding the methodologies
  • Write, implement and maintain policies and standards for application architecture and development
  • Independently and proactively lead/facilitate efforts in identifying opportunities to improve VRS architecture and development procedures to enable business success
  • Gather, evaluate, and document application architecture and design for complex new systems or system enhancements based on business user input, technical requirements and constraints
  • Analyze proposed system changes to identify architecture and development strategies for meeting business objectives and impacts, including costs and effort required to implement
  • Work effectively with business process owners and other technology staff to ensure business objectives are understood and met
  • Participate in design to help ensure an appropriate focus on implementation of architecture standards in business solution designs
  • Collaborate with product teams, Infrastructure and QA engineers and release management on new implementations
  • Contribute to the enforcement of change management policy and best practices
  • Provide support in dealing with production issues that arise, through troubleshooting and consultation with peers and vendor product support as needed
  • Work with other technical staff in the development of business solution designs
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Business Administration or a related discipline
  • Seven (7) years' experience in one or more architecture domains (e.g. business architecture, solutions architecture, application architecture) or an equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Experience in designing and architecting large scale applications, relational databases, including SaaS Hybrid, on-prem and cloud-based applications
  • Advanced knowledge and experience in one or more current programming languages (E.g. - Java, JavaScript (including AngularJS),.Net Core,.net, C#, Micro services, MVC, WCF, Python, Rust, Go, Ruby or PHP)
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with business intelligence (BI), and enterprise content management (ECM)
  • Experience implementing, designing and enforcing project management, requirements definition and signoff, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), quality assurance methodologies, software testing principles
  • Knowledge of Change Management and Configuration Management best practices
  • Experience working in one or multiple IT areas, but with the versatility to apply concepts for Cloud Enabled/Cloud native solutions, SecDevOps, Advanced Analytics, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence/Robotic Process Automation, Integration/API/Microservices, User Experience


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