Application Architect

**Job#: 2077817**

**Job Description:**

**Application Architect**

Hourly: $65/hr-$73/hr

Location: Columbus, OH

Contract-to-hire

**Summary:**

The Application Architect provides the technical vision and direction within an application domain .

**Duties and Responsibilities:**

- Develop, maintain, and communicate the application architecture and application-level roadmap.

- Design, document, develop and govern frameworks/platforms for consumption by the larger technical delivery organization.

- Be accountable for the creation and evolution of the overall application architecture strategy, its alignment with the Target State Enterprise Architecture and its usage patterns within the development community.

- Communicate and govern the use of architectural trends and best practice within the application domain.

- Develop, maintain, and communicate standards around design leadership, documentation, and stakeholder communication.

- Conduct product/solution evaluations for architectural domain.

- Mentors' technical delivery staff

- ?Creates Proof of Concepts of recommendations or emerging technologies

- Performs other duties as assigned.

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Bachelors Degree

- 5+ years of related experience

· Previous AWS development and architecture experience

- Ability to solve problems, plan, scope, and provide estimates for work effort, producing quality deliverables on time and on budget

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to interact effectively across all organizational levels, and explain technical concepts clearly and concisely to multiple layers of peers and leadership

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Highly motivated with strong organizational, analytical, decision making, and problem-solving skills

- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handle multiple priorities and effectively prioritize them

- Willingness and drive to learn and understand detailed software solutions

- High level of professionalism and confidence with the ability to build credibility with leadership, team members, and business partners and establish effective working relationships

- Work effectively in teams as well as independently across multiple tasks while meeting aggressive timelines

- Experience working in a consumer-centric company and with teams of technical professionals in a cross-functional environment

- Ability to embrace change, constructively negotiate constraints, and effectively leverage time and resources to create exceptional outcomes

- Consistently model and inspire high levels of professional demeanor and integrity

- Hands on experience in Agile Architecture delivery practices, tools, and execution

- Proven ability to define and deliver solutions against strategic IT roadmaps with in-depth understanding of the business requirements

- Experience with security, performance, availability, and environment configuration

- Experience with digital and backend applications

- Experience with banking data models and financial services (fintech) systems

- Experience with DevOps and data solution testing including CI/CD, and data infrastructure including cloud

- Ability to exhibit thought leadership for innovating toward the next evolution of technology products, including agile approaches, cloud platforms and services, advanced analytics, data science and machine learning/artificial intelligence

- Experience with React and TypeScript

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