Systems Architect Senior

Description

Provides senior level expertise on decisions and priorities regarding the enterprise's overall systems architecture. Facilitates technical architecture discussions to design. Facilitates the establishment and implementation of standards and guidelines that guide the design of technology solutions. Those include architecting and implementing solutions requiring integration of multiple platforms, operating systems and applications across the enterprise. Reviews, conducts research, evaluation, advises on and designs standard software and hardware technologies. Evaluates system options, risks, costs versus benefits, service level requirements and impact on the enterprise business process and goals. With input from others develops documents and maintains technical architecture artifacts such as the framework for integration and implementation for changes to technical standards. Assists in the development of an architecture governance process. Participates in, and may lead, Capacity Management discussions to determine the most appropriate scalable model taking business and service level requirements into consideration. Provides technical guidance to project team areas as appropriate. May take on role of Project Leader for special enterprise wide assignments. May coach or mentor junior technical staff. Tracks industry trends and maintains knowledge of new technologies to better serve the enterprise's architecture needs. Responsible for work that is complex and varied in nature. Defines and discerns key aspects of a problem and develops an integrated solution within a broad business context of significant impact. Employees in this classification typically analyze, compare and evaluate various courses of action and have the authority to make independent decisions on matters of significance, free from immediate direction, within the scope of their responsibilities. Primary activities and decision making authority are predominantly performed independently affecting business operations to a substantial degree. Under FLSA, this is the exempt job classification for this title. Incumbents in this position must meet the full criteria for exempt status: salary level, salary basis, and duties tests.