Chief Architect

Job Description

We have a position for a Chief Architect with one of our clients in Atlanta, GA for an initial contract duration of 1 year 3 months. No third party candidates considered for this position.

• The Chief Architect is responsible for ensuring that all Clients investments in technology function effectively to meet the department’s strategic objectives using technology.
• This position will work closely with stakeholders, IT delivery teams and external partners to develop a framework for the effective and efficient use of IT infrastructure to integrate and support the overall operation of the department.
• This position will also be responsible and accountable for planning, documenting and articulating the department’s application and technology strategy and governing and aligning initiatives to the enterprise architecture and vision across the portfolio.
• The successful candidate will lead the selection, implementation, and integration of new application/infrastructure components impacting the department.
• The primary responsibility of the first few months of this position is to review infrastructure and application architecture of enterprise systems and make recommendations to Chief Information Officer and IT Delivery teams of how to move forward on enterprise projects.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Serves as an expert in the application and infrastructure architecture domains and maintains a broad understanding in other architecture domains (Business, Data and Security).
• Work with stakeholders, both leadership and subject matter experts, to build a holistic view of the organization's strategy, processes, information, and information technology assets.
• Determine and develop architectural approaches and solutions, conducts business reviews, documents current systems, and develops recommendations of how to proceed with the applications
• Play a significant role in the planning of the overall organizational IT strategy.
• Document architectural models or views that show how the current and future needs of the organization will be met in an efficient, sustainable, agile, and adaptable manner; survey the current infrastructure to determine areas for growth and improvement and recommend areas of improvement for immediate alignment with the organizational IT strategy.
• Interface across several business areas, acting as visionary to proactively assist in defining the direction for future projects.
• Establish an Architecture Review Board (ARB) and function to govern standards, best practices, and architecture decisions.
• Supervises implementation of various infrastructure projects, works with vendors, and actively leads the Architecture Review Board (ARB)
• Participate in creating and evolving technology roadmap that defines current technical architectures, future architectures, and the evolution for transition for all projects
• Operate across organizational and computing silos to drive common approaches and to expose information assets and processes across the enterprise
• Promote the use of shared infrastructure and applications to reduce costs and improve information flows.
• Ensure that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business and IT strategies.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for architectural frameworks, methods, design patterns, and tools
• Researches new technologies and platforms. Leads consolidation of monitoring tools and solutions in use by various application and infrastructure support teams
• Coach and mentor technical staff and identify talent and ability for others to become architects
• Researches new technologies and platforms to enhance technological advancement of the Agency and realize cost savings including but not limited to Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure / O365, Google and IBM Cloud.