Technology Strategist

6 days ago

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States Baird Full time
About the Role

Baird is seeking a highly skilled Solution Architect to join our Core Architecture team. As a key member of our technology leadership team, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of our technology ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and Build the Strategy
    • Create clarity by visualizing current technology investments and their interactions
    • Help build and deliver the portfolio and enterprise "city maps" for future growth
    • Design, document and implement the strategic roadmap ensuring its feasibility
    • Conceptualize and design technology-based solutions within scope of the business unit application domain
    • Assist in advising the IT vision, strategy, technology innovations, licensing and architecture services
    • Influence choices and direction for Solution Delivery at all levels
    • Help to build a high quality / craftsmanship approach, utilizing best practices, and standards
    • Influence and drive the direction of solution architecture, platforms, versions, and toolsets
    • Develop good practices with teams and communicate their use
  • Be Hands-on - Engineer Business Architecture and Prototype
    • Review system design to assure that solutions will exhibit expected levels of performance, scalability, security, and appropriate reusability upon release
    • Review and guide design decisions of our teams
    • Provide production problem diagnosis and technical support
    • Design, prototype, and implement strategic concepts ensuring their feasibility
    • Help deliver highly technical concepts by researching and building POC's to prove or disprove viability within the Baird environment
    • Help ensure an effective approach to ongoing innovation
  • Communicate and Collaborate
    • Partner with technical leaders of Baird's third party solutions vendors to determine integration strategy into Baird's Technology Infrastructure.
    • Consult with project technical leaders on trade off decisions as required
    • Work with Baird's business leaders and industry peers to identify best practices, systems and benchmarks
    • Assist in the development of policies, standards and guidelines
  • Lead – Coach and Mentor
    • Partner with other technical and people leaders / teams to provide direction during PoCs and other solutions
    • Act as the technical subject matter expert for business unit domains
    • Mentor the delivery teams to build knowledge and skills in current or future areas of need
  • Learn – be your best
    • Work on highly complex and highly visible initiatives while helping to continuously improve our processes
    • Seek out and apply new technologies and skills in daily work through self-development
    • Develop relationships with the business and seek out opportunities for continued education in the financial industry
What We Look For
  • Multiple years and experiences on Technology Teams in a complex domain, including a broad understanding of industry technology, trends, cloud, software, data, and integration architectures and system architecture.
  • Experience building modern solutions within financial services or related industry
  • Demonstrated implementation of leading the development and delivery of a strategic roadmap
  • Demonstrated effective decision making on Architecture, Design, and Solution Delivery
  • Demonstrated expertise in the architecture and design of high-performance distributed systems, e.g., in areas of messaging, search, archiving, workflows
  • Experience and comfort with Agile/XP/Lean delivery concepts
  • Proven track record of technical leadership and successful delivery on large and complex projects
  • Advanced skills in leadership, communication, negotiation, influence, and conflict resolution
  • Understanding of latest technologies including cloud and mobile strategies, complex application integration, and understanding of Data and Analytics delivery approaches
  • Demonstrated effective decision-making, and calm / calming demeanor
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills - ability to effectively exchange ideas and information in order to accomplish work responsibilities
Preferred Qualifications
  • MS Azure Cloud Ecosystem
  • Cloud Platforms / SaaS Platforms: Power Platform MS Dynamics CRM Salesforce Snowflake
  • Modern Cloud Architectures including Microservices and related tools/technologies
  • Modern Cloud Data and Analytics patterns and tools including Data Mesh Architecture, Cloud Warehousing, Fivetran, DBT, Snowflake, AI/ML

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