Senior Professional Application Architect (51000987)

Job Description :
Job Description:
Essential Job Functions

• Conducts technical research, testing, evaluation and documentation of routine hosting/configuration tools and methodologies to ensure that tools are current and functional.
• Assists in creating application architectures and populating an application host/configuration matrices with appropriate strategies, timelines and cost information to increase cost efficiency and effectiveness.
• Assists in designing application modules that work together to produce desired product and to ensure that performance guidelines are met.
• Assists in the planning of technical support infrastructure through the creation of service level agreements; assists in the transition from application development to support; ensures that appropriate support is available to clients in a timely and efficient manner.
• Works with product development teams and senior designers to develop architectural requirements to ensure client satisfaction with product.
• Assists more experienced architects in providing high-level analysis and design reviews to other department members to avoid duplication of effort in solving the same application problems with different products.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Bachelor’s degree in business, software engineering, computer science or related field preferred
• Six or more years of application architecture and/or product development experience
• Experience working with software systems, applications and network markets
• Experience working with application design principles and product configurations
• Experience working with appropriate programming languages, operating systems, hardware and software
• Experience working with programming to understand product line software

Other Qualifications

• Good skills in application design and architecture and personal computer and business solutions software skills
• Good communication skills to communicate with customers, support personnel, application development personnel and management
• Good analytical and problem solving skills for design, coordination and testing of applications
• Good interpersonal skills for communicating with business unit personnel, customers and vendors
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Ability to work with relational databases

Work Environment

• Office environment