Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect
Location: New york /
Duration : 6 months to extent.

Job Description:

As part of the New York States Race to the Top guidelines, the NYCDOE is
developing a human capital system that supports a more robust teacher and
school leader evaluation process and provides better information to
stakeholders across the NYCDOE to make critical human capital decisions.
DIIT, the DOEs IT organization, is looking to hire a Solutions Architect who
will lead the solution design activities working with the IT, business and
potential vendor teams to rapidly develop and deploy the human capital
system.

The Solutions Architect will be responsible for, but not limited, to the
following:

Accountability for the technical components of the design and successful
operation of solutions within DOE Provide deep technical/architecture
guidance to project teams Work with Business Partners, project leadership,
business analysts, data and technical architects and business sponsors to
ensure that business requirements are met through developed solutions
Responsible for the delivery of architecture artifacts that will demonstrate
the projects adherence to strategy, design patterns, and best practices
Responsible for the identification and availability of assets or services
that can be re-used by the project teams to drive consistency, cost
reduction, and increases speed to market Collaborate with other architects
and technical leaders across the organization to develop best practices
Provide detailed guidance and direction for design and implementation of
development frameworks and design patterns for consumption across multiple
development teams Create, communicate and improve the governing principles,
standards and models that detail DOE technical landscapes by reconciling
various stakeholder requirements Establish and develop architectural
governance team(s) and processes to guide and sanction critical
architectural decisions Review existing documentation and processes around
human capital systems within the DOE to ensure a strong understanding of
existing NYCDOE systems Required Skills:

1. 10+ years of applicable work experience with at least 5 or more years of
experience as a Solution Architect or Technical Team Lead

2. Demonstrated experience with systems architectural concepts and
frameworks

3. Capable of translating and presenting technical concepts into practical
business terms for leaders both small and large group settings

4. 10+ years of experience in enterprise platform product implementation
with broad exposure to different industry leading technologies such as Java,
Web Services/SOA/ESB, Messaging, Oracle, SQL, etc.

5. Knowledge and experience with Agile and object-oriented methodologies,
notations, and processes: Rational Unified Process, Extreme Programming,
Unified Modeling Language (UML), design patterns

6. Extensive experience designing and/or developing solutions in a Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA)

7. Familiar with Use Case Analysis, UML diagramming, Object Oriented Design
and - Analysis

8. Familiar with web services, WSDL, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP),
XML, XSD

9. Ability to interface and influence people at multiple levels within the
organization

10. Strong knowledge of all facets of systems development and operations
scenarios

11. Ability to handle multiple tasks and deadlines with attention to detail.

12. High level of flexibility and ability to persevere through periods of
significant change and challenge in the business environment

13. Experience developing or managing the development of Salesforce.com
applications and web service preferred.

14. Experience managing application development using Visualforce and custom
Apex controllers preferred.