Digital Solution Architect
Company: Black & Veatch
Location: Wilmington
Posted on: March 19, 2023
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Job Description:
**Digital Solution Architect** Date: Mar 1, 2023 Location: US
Company: Black & Veatch Family of Companies **Together, we own our
company, our future, and our shared success.** As an employee-owned
company, our people _are_ Black & Veatch. We put them at the center
of everything we do and empower them to grow, explore new
possibilities and use their diverse talents and perspectives to
solve humanity's biggest challenges in an ever-evolving world. With
over 100 years of innovation in sustainable infrastructure and our
expertise in engineering, procurement, consulting and construction,
together we are building a world of difference. **Company :** Black
& Veatch Corporation **Req Id :** 95900 **Opportunity Type :**
Staff **Relocation eligible :** No **Full time/Part time :**
Full-Time **Project Only Hire :** No **Visa Sponsorship
Available:** No **Why Black and Veatch** At Black & Veatch, you own
your career with purpose and meaning. You are empowered to grow and
explore new possibilities at every step of your career journey.
Bring your big ideas knowing you are safe to be who you are and
speak up with concerns or questions and put your diverse talents
and perspectives to use. **The Opportunity** Black & Veatch is
looking for candidates that have solid architectural experience
across B2C, B2B, B2E, or B2B2C ecosystems. We need someone who can
move at the pace of digital business, while maintaining the
standard of excellence; someone who can innovate along with
innovative partners; someone who can leverage digital technology to
help disrupt the status quo. We are looking for candidates that
embrace the spirit of curiosity and collaboration to apply for this
role for our Black & Veatch Architecture Team. Are you up for the
challenge? The Digital Solution Architect will demonstrate
competencies across three key dimensions: _Interpret Business
Needs:_ + Translates business and technical requirements into an
architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and
documents all solution architecture design and analysis work +
Works closely with the product owners and product managers to
ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future
business requirements throughout the product lifecycle +
Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and
current state) and determines corresponding enterprise solution
designs and change requirements to drive the organization's
targeted business outcomes _Assess Technology:_ + Monitors the
current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through
aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment
with business requirements + Supports product managers in end of
life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services, or
systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and
information + Understands emerging technology trends and
disruptions and their practical application to enable new and
evolving business and operating models + Analyzes the technology
industry, competitors, and market trends, and determines their
potential implications for a given solution + Analyzes the
business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy,
and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement +
Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product
standards and services, as well as the design of standard and
custom software configurations + Consults with application and
infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or
infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to
modify designs to accommodate the solutions architecture _Apply
Technology:_ + Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the
implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of
specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise
business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business
requirements and enterprise standards + Manages and develops the
architecture for a broader scope of projects or products + Designs
architecture for a single project or product or initiative + Acts
as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and
vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes + Creates
architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution
development across products, services, projects, and systems,
including applications, technologies, processes, and information +
Works closely with the program management office (PMO) or project
management office to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with
what is being promised throughout the project or product lifecycle
**The Team** As part of BV Business Enablement, you will be part of
the critical and forward-thinking group that enables our people,
projects, and businesses to be as successful as possible by
providing creative solutions. Functions in this group include
Office of the CIO, Diode, ESH&S, Finance, Human Resources,
Legal, Risk Management, and Government Affairs and Real Estate and
Building Services. **Key Responsibilities** **General** + Obtains
guidance from Digital Enterprise Architects (EA) on standards,
regulations, EA principles, and target-state blueprints applicable
to their specific solution. + Designs architectures in compliance
with standards, regulations, EA principles and target-state
blueprints. + Leads detail design and implementation activities. +
Creates technology roadmaps. + Establishes architectural & design
principals. + Analyzes technology trends and disruptions and the
practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies
to enable new and evolving business and operating models. + Acts as
a consultant on a broad range of technologies, and vendor offerings
to drive business outcomes. + Works closely with the product owners
and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that
can support future business requirements throughout the product
lifecycle. + Implements the difficult parts of project or products.
+ Minimizes technical exposure, cost exposure, and risk on
projects. + Guides and sometimes drives evaluation of third-party
software solutions. + Curious. + Flexible **Plan and Manage the IT
Portfolio** + Leads analysis of the IT environment to detect
critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement. +
Develops and applies architectural standards and minimal viable
architectures through the EA governance model, which is informed by
the business strategy and corporate governance. + Facilitates a
collaborative relationship across product owners and agile
development teams. + Collaborates with agile teams to ensure
consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to
leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed
to value and time to market. + Collaborates with infrastructure and
project teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise
architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify
the enterprise architecture. + Oversees EA implementation,
continuous improvement and ongoing refinement activities. +
Oversees the documentation of all architecture design and analysis
work. **Management Responsibilities** Individual Contributor
**Minimum Qualifications** _Education_ + Bachelor degree in
computer science, information-technology, engineering, system
analysis, mathematics or a related study, or equivalent experience
_Experience_ + Minimum of five years of experience in at least two
IT solution development disciplines, including technical or
infrastructure architecture, network management, application
development, middleware, database management or cloud development +
Good understanding of strategic and new and emerging technology
trends, and the practical application of existing, new and emerging
technologies to new and evolving business and operating models +
Recent development experience with Node.js, Java, or Python. +
Experience in Azure Cloud or AWS Cloud, Cloud Engineering, Cloud
Architecture. + Experience in architecting Cloud Native
Applications, REST APIs, + Awareness of Privacy regulations. +
Experience in implementing security concepts. + Demonstrated
ability to independently research technology. + Experience
analyzing and resolving systems and application issues. +
Experience evaluating risk against cost, scope, time, and available
resources. + Effective communication skills. + Expertise in agile
application development methodologies. All applicants must be able
to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected)
which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil
background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in
compliance with any applicable laws and regulations. **Preferred
Qualifications** + Knowledge of various development languages,
frameworks and database technologies. + Knowledge of various
aspects of architecture. + Knowledge of different modeling
languages like UML. + Ability to translate business needs to
technical requirements. + Excellent analytical, planning,
organizational technical and communication skills. + Skilled at
influencing, guiding and facilitating stakeholders and peers with
decision making. + Ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to
technical and nontechnical audiences. + Ability to propose and
estimate the financial impact of solution architecture
alternatives. + Ability to work creatively and analytically to
solve business problems and propose solutions. + Ability to quickly
comprehend the functions and capabilities technologies + UML -
desired _Preferred_ + Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies,
platforms and processing environments + Solid experience with data
security and privacy technologies and processes. + Experience
building and supporting mission critical applications. + Good
understanding of product management, agile principles and
development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams
by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and
risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt +
Knowledge in technologies related to RPA, ML, AR, VR, IoT,
blockchain desired. + Experience in Content Management Systems, Web
Analytics, Marketing Analytics, etc. **Work Environment/Physical
Demands** Typical office environment. **Salary Plan** ITS:
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