The Application Architect will play a key role in a multi-year, companywide effort.

The Architect will collaborate with the System Architect, outside architecture organization, application architects and technical leads across ITS and with other third party providers to produce the architecture that will support the modern solution. This individual will collaborate with System and Application Architects to create a joint System.

Architecture including Application, Data, Services, Infrastructure, Network, Security and Integration Architecture for the product. The Application Architect must understand the fundamentals of architecture including Agile development methodology best practices, Business Process Modeling (BPM), and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). He/she will work with the Federated Development and Product Utility Application Architects and System Architect in a highly collaborative environment to deliver the overall solution. The Architect will produce technical documentation to support the Business Architecture Model and define the Information System Architecture (ISA) for our BPM efforts.

The incumbent will play a key role in the Architecture Review Meeting (ARM) and on the System Architecture team.

Requires 7+ years technical expertise in architecting, designing, and implementing enterprise level highly distributed solutions

• Hands-on experience as an Application Architect or similar position
• Highly knowledgeable in BPM and SOA based technologies
• Strong Architecture skills with an understanding and/or development experience in XML, J2EE, .Net, WS-Security, ITIL processes, Application Development
• Governance and Development tools, Web Services Management tools, and Object Oriented Programming
• Strong business process analysis skills
• Demonstrated experience with Enterprise Integration technologies
• Required Skills
• Excellent organizational, communication, presentation, and facilitation skills