Solutions Architect

Job Title: Solution Architect

Duration: 18 Month(Possibility of Extension)

Working hours: 40/week

Location: Carson City NV 89701 (Hybrid- 75% onsite, 25% offsite)

JOB DESCRIPTION :

1. Experience and Skills Required-

Seeking a Solution Architect to join the several Project Initiatives to streamline/modernize/improve the customer and internal user experience for the Online Business Licensing Management services. The Solution Architect proactively and holistically leads and supports Enterprise Architect activities that will guide our development and management of our portfolio of solutions. Solutions include projects, systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services.

They understand the concepts of business goals, objectives and business outcomes, business capabilities, value-streams, and business processes and their importance in solution architecture. The Solution Architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks related to support the development of technology solutions to ensure that our Portfolio solutions meet business needs and align with architectural principles, and governance and standards . They create deliverables for managing the organization's portfolio of "to be" and "as is" solutions — including systems (applications, processes, information and technology), shared infrastructure services, and shared application services and components to enable and drive targeted business outcomes.

The Solutions Architect will demonstrate competencies across four key dimensions:

Interpret Business Needs:

1. Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
2. Works closely with the Portfolio Leadership,Project teams, and IT Enterprise Architecure committee to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
3. Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise solution designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.
4. Provide input and guidance on individual and team weekly goals, monitor progress through a positive, collaborative and encouraging work environment.

Example of potential deliverables provided while performing this role: requirements traceability document, business process/capability impact assessment and business process diagrams.

Assess Technology:

1. Assess the current of implemented services and solutions and identify any deficiencies, like the aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.
2. Supports product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services, or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.
3. Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and their practical application to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
4. Analyzes the technology industry, competitors, and market trends, and determines their potential implications for a given solution.
5. Analyzes the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement within our Portfolio.
6. Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
7. Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify designs to accommodate the solution’s architecture.

Examples of potential deliverables provided while performing this role: Current architecture documentation, vendor assessment for RFP, contribution to cost/benefit analysis, contributions to proof-of-concept implementation.

Apply Technology:

1. Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a solution’s architecture within our Business License Management services or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.
2. Manages and develops the architecture for a broader scope of projects or products, working closely with application, and system architects that manage and design architecture within our Business License Management services or other agencies that interface with the Business Licensing services.
3. Develops a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise solution portfolio from current to future, as defined by the requirements of our Portfolio effort.
4. Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes.
5. Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects, and systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.
6. Works closely with the Portfolio leadership team to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the program effort.
7. Provides consulting support to application architects within IT teams to ensure the program is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture for the IT operation.

Examples of potential deliverables provided while performing this role: Solution documentation, enterprise target architecture and application/platform strategy design documentation.

Provide Enterprise Guidance:

1. Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to support architectural governance to assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business IT environment.
2. Supports a Community of Practice (CoP), guiding and helping Program and Project teams to align with the overall enterprise architecture governance and assurance.
3. Designs and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring solution’s architecture assurance and compliance.
4. Defines the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-architecture vision.

Examples of potential deliverables provided while performing this role: solution scorecard and enterprise reference architecture components.

2. Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated Solution Architecture experience and verifiable business outcomes achieved for organizations where you have performed this role in your career.
• 3-5 years of Solution Architecture experience.
• Communicates clearly in English, both verbally and in writing, with project team members and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize and deliver requested deliverables on time.
• Excellent written and verbal skills.
• Demonstrated can-do attitude.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities. Moves quickly to address unexpected problems or opportunities.
• Intermediate level proficiency with Microsoft Office 365 including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Teams and Visio experience is a plus, but not required.

The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to creating an equitable and inclusive environment for all