Lead Architect Job Description
Lead architect
provides architectural design, guidance, governance, recommendation and signoff for as-is vs target cloud architectures of applications.
Lead Architect Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Ensuring the quality and consistency of inventory artefacts for Infrastructure (system flows, data flows, conceptual designs and target operating models), across the Infrastructure domain teams
Lead and “hands on” participation of the architecture and design of the technical solution, including the creation of all required documentation
Design software architecture of given domain
Manage and enhance software/data architecture best practices, standards, patterns and reference architectures to design for the given domain
Supervising/assisting with the design and development of domain-level roadmaps
Evolving the architecture strategy for COO Infrastructure
Performing specific analysis/design efforts as needed and constructing responses for consumption at senior stakeholder levels
Experience in Information Technology (IT) delivery or architecture, including experience as a Data Modeller and/or Data Base Administrator, application design and programming
Experienced in financial and regulatory reporting architecture, specifically the design of a reporting architecture that facilitates the creation, publication and distribution of reports both on a regular basis and ad-hoc (beneficial)
Able to demonstrate Leadership skills to manage ad-hoc analysis or design deep dive
Lead Architect Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Lead Architect
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: GIAC, FEAC, CCIE, CISSP, SANS, BI, AWS, TOGAF, OSCP, GCFE
Education for Lead Architect
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the lead architect job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technical, Information Technology, Business, Education, Architecture, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Science
Skills for Lead Architect
Desired skills for lead architect include:
HCM Cloud product
Java
Design
Security
Interactive design
Infrastructure
Python
C++
Architectural governance
Databases
Desired experience for lead architect includes:
Identifying opportunities for implementing automation and efficiency improvements in current software request and fulfillment process
Experience evaluating build vs
Develop and document short and long-term technology plan that incorporates and ties directly to the organisation vision and strategy
Demonstrate experience in adoption of new innovative technologies though research to deployment of a solution
Demonstrates experience of communicating effectively current technical solutions in place that benefit the Business and also promote new technologies to the business
Demonstrates knowledge and experience of leading edge technologies in the market
Lead Architect Examples
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Lead Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a lead architect. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for lead architect
- Identifies the technical approach to be used on a given IT project and manages the system development process including the development of a strategic plan, systems analysis, technical design, coding, testing and acceptance of an IT system and/or application
- Pro-actively engages stakeholders in project design, priority setting, and implementation
- Review and recommends project design and development approach, ensure integrity in the current architecture and system performance
- Define, execute and oversee software / data proof of concept designs, documenting results and forming adoption recommendations
- Provide fourth level technical support, diagnosing, troubleshooting and restoring systems to service
- A bachelors degree in Business, Economics, Engineering or Computer Science, or the equivalent Business Analysis certification and/or relevant work experience
- An understanding of the concept of embedding simplicity in everything
- Knowledgeable of investment banking, sales & trading, asset management and similar industries
- Knowledgeable of the finance/controlling domain and end-to-end workflow for banking & trading businesses
- Knowledgeable of investment banking, sales & trading, asset management and similar industries (beneficial)
Qualifications for lead architect
- Coverage – ensure that the test scope sufficiently covers the risk areas identified
- Provide domain expertise to their area of responsibility
- Strong knowledge of Erwin, or comparable tool for modeling and capturing metadata
- Strong knowledge of SQL and at least one relational database platform (Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, and Sybase IQ)
- Strong knowledge of logical/physical models for data warehouse and dimensional data marts
- NoSQL (Riak, Cassandra, Hadoop, Elastic Search)
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Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a lead architect. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for lead architect
- Experienced in Change Management, understanding the system development lifecycle and project management
- Proven experience in data R&D or an associated development background
- Extensive agile (Scrum/XP) and traditional software delivery experience in global/offshore delivery models
- Committed to the ongoing professional development of junior team members
- Innovative, articulate and able to work directly with a broad range of stake holders
- Analyze and evaluate customer requirements and change requests
- Acts as a strategic technology leader in orchestrating “how” technical solutions meet business need and ensure a cohesive solution is created
- Oversees the process for defining software standards and establish policies in collaboration with other IT disciplines and within the constraints of overall company standards
- Communicates effectively plans and provide consultative advice, counsel, education and guidance up, down and across all levels on existing and future technologies, capabilities, policies, regulations and risks to include implications to the business
- Organizes appropriately and present ideas, options, plans initiatives, roadmaps, business cases and other pertinent information required by senior leadership to make effective decisions
Qualifications for lead architect
- At least 3 years experience in Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) Technology
- At least 5 years experience in Application Architecture
- Experience working on Oracle 11g, 12c platforms with strong background and knowledge in advanced database concepts like caching, queuing
- Working knowledge of PL/SQL, Stored procedures, Triggers, advanced queuing, golden-gate replication
- Proven ability to build collaborative relationships across cross-functional teams and business areas
- Minimum of ten (10) years of hands-on VMware data center and desktop technology stack
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of lead architect. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for lead architect
- Writing and reviewing design documents
- Provide architectural direction to application groups (20%)
- Knowledge sharing between fellow team members
- Guide all teams through complete development lifecycles and provide technical guidance and assistance as needed
- Motivates project team members to action
- Troubleshoots issues of diverse scope
- Owner of key platform services in HSDP
- Lead Technical Product Teams for delivering capabilities in the platform
- Prioritizing business requirements delivery, technical debt, re-factoring & platform NFRs
- Accountable for both the "what” and “how” from the team
Qualifications for lead architect
- Experience with agile techniques and project management tools is preferred
- Hands-on experience designing, configuring, and implementing network technologies and tools, to include but not limited to switches, routers, firewalls, wireless a/p, network appliances, monitoring and alert systems
- Recognize the opportunities presented in hosting and take the initiative in solving complex technical problems and identifying and rapidly pursuing appropriate strategies which deliver business benefit
- Experience developing requirements for processes (validations, transformations) and/or developing requirements for data management tool-sets (reconciliations, adjustments)
- Detailed orientated professional who demonstrates the ability to balance driving both strategy and execution
- Very good communication and presentation skills in English both written and spoken
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Lead Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of lead architect. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for lead architect
- Produce a detailed technical solution design document to match the functional requirements
- Analyze and design the underlying data model, data flows, interfaces, integration points
- Leads architectural design and strategy in multiple architectural disciplines
- Design and improve architecture of the pipeline to achieve large-scale data processing using Spark
- Participating in business and technology planning sessions and anticipating future business/technology changes
- Provide technology roadmaps governed by strategic direction, business requirements resourcing and financial constraints
- Lead a team of information architects and prototypers to explore new user journeys updating legacy content
- Clearly communicate and provide direction to junior IAs
- Support/enhance proprietary SDK for creating game content in HTML5
- Hands-on development of casual and social game content in HTML5
Qualifications for lead architect
- Well developed understanding of OSI model and practical implementation
- Enterprise Switch and Router administration at scale
- Experience in the automation and large-scale management and operations of a global network
- Knowledge of VPNs, firewalls, network overlays, load-balancers, and packet forwarding architectures
- Understands big picture, sets clear vision, but maintains strict attention to detail
- Experience in handling difficult network customer escalations under pressure
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of lead architect. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for lead architect
- Serves as an top-level contact to provide guidance on enterprise technology standards and design
- Drive enterprise API strategy, including how to manage APIs as Products, establish customer-centric approaches to API design, and devise strategies to monetize APIs
- Write, issue and evaluate Requests For Proposal (RFPs) in the video space, covering encoders/transcoder, cloud storage, Set Top Boxes and Systems on Chip (SoC)
- Define and optimize map creation system based on cloud computing platform AWS
- Create a strategic dialogue with GO business partners that incorporate industry-wide practices and benchmarks
- Understand the customer acceptance criteria and translate these in verification needs to the various sub system, component, product and/or IP levels
- Cooperate strongly with, but also challenge the system, product, IP architects in the requirement definitions
- Lead the team of verification engineers
- Support the verification engineers in analyzing defect causes and defect prevention measures
- Define, document and deploy the verification strategy in the development projects
Qualifications for lead architect
- Regularly/frequently contributes to the development of new concepts, theories, methods, techniques, and standards
- A detailed knowledge of the web development process
- Master's degree in a related field, with an experimental and/or UI design relaled bend (e.g., social sciences) preferred
- Strong understanding of the Enterprise Mobility Management components and capabilities (MAM, MCM, MDM, Security)
- Heavily experienced in Teradata, SQL, related database utilities, PL/SQL (stored procedures), and Unix Shell scripting
- Experience working with Medicare/Medicaid data is highly recommended