Enterprise Software Architect
The Enterprise Application Architect is responsible for effective design, architecture and integration of applications, application services, application integration, and general non-infrastructure services utilized in the delivery of business solutions.   

The ideal candidate must excel at collaboration with multi-disciplinary technology teams and architects on a wide range of problems, including, but not limited to, understanding the operational business processes, understanding enterprise applications, developing integrations, developing application architecture standards/patterns, and designing solutions for application monitoring and methods to optimize end-to-end performance.

This role involves collaboration with architects and project teams to design and implement solution architectures for applications with integrations across a wide estate of applications both on premise and multi-cloud.

Key accountabilities

• Leads team of related disciplines in pursuit of strong Architecture and Design
• Designing and overseeing the development of integration-centric architectures and solutions
• Designing solutions that transition from existing traditional integration platforms to a micro-services based architecture
• Define new solutions using microservice-oriented architecture patterns, automating business process models and cloud-based services
• Building process-centric solutions by architecting business process focused IT infrastructures
• Creating architectural roadmaps to and migrate applications into cloud-based services
• Design Technical/Integration Architectures, including development, runtime and operations architectures
• Lead and define architecture governance for project and change governance processes
• Design authority for any integration architectures and solutioning
• Define and delivering integrated solutions by applying proven delivery methodologies including Agile and Model-Driven techniques
• Design message and event-driven architectures
• Collaborate with Data Architects and Datawarehouse Administrator to maintain data integrity across system and application boundaries
• Select systems and capabilities to meet business requirements, evaluate new techniques for improved functionality and continuously review existing estate for improvements as new technologies emerge
• Gathers and analyzes data and develops architectural requirements at project/program level
• Development of and design oversight to ensure adherence to:
  • Integration standards
  • Data related standards
  • Process related standards
  • Messaging related standards
• Leads and coordinates the domain technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction for new projects, new platforms and applications
• Ensures compatibility with existing solutions, infrastructure, services, and strategic requirements
• Participates in platform strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and leading POCs
• Contributes to the broader Enterprise Architect solutioning and the BPX Technology strategy and ensures alignment with architectural strategy and business goals
• Identifies opportunities for reuse of applications, services, data, and integration solutions
• Contributes to the development of software and data delivery platforms with reusable components that can be orchestrated together into different methods for different business
• Ensures the conceptual completeness of the solutions implemented by IT as a whole
• Oversees ongoing quality activities across the enterprise application estate and champions related improvement initiatives
• Consults on application or infrastructure/development projects to fit systems or infrastructure to the technical architecture, and identify when it is necessary to modify the technical/solution architecture to accommodate project needs
• Leads the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry and market trends to assist in project development and/or operational support activities.
• Reviews existing business processes/applications and establishes metrics to improve
• Demonstrates leadership by assisting both technological and business communities with solution designs that meet business requirements.
• Coordinate with business customers, analysts and prepare design for systems.
• Manage all enterprise application architectural issues and recommend alternatives as needed.

Essential Education

• Minimum requirement of four-year college degree in computer science, software engineering,  or related discipline, or equivalent experience

Essential experience and job requirements

• 10+ years of IT and business/industry work experience including architecture, design, and deployment; systems lifecycle management; and application development planning and management; 5+ years in an application architect role preferred
• Mastery of advanced integration technologies – SOA, Microservices, ESB/messaging, API gateways, event-driven architectures, as well
• Knowledge and experience with to Azure and/or AWS application services and middleware, including serverless compute.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture best practices, standards and services
• Demonstrated ability to constantly learn outside of a classroom environment, and successfully apply learnings
• Demonstrated self-motivator that can estimate tasks and workload to achieve deliverables and goals, delivering on time and on estimation
• Consulting, negotiation and relationship skills to work with multiple external teams and accomplish shared goals through the building consensus
• Vendor management experience is required.
• Strong communication (written/verbal) and collaboration skills
• Ability to succeed in a fast-paced environment, deliver high quality performance on multiple, simultaneous strategic, value-added tasks and priorities

Travel required: Yes – up to 25%

Employment Type: Full-time – Denver