Advisor Application Architect

Job Description:

Essential Job Functions

• Conducts technical research, testing, evaluation and documentation of moderately complex hosting/configuration tools and methodologies to ensure that tools are current and functional.
• Creates application architectures and populates an application host/configuration matrices with appropriate strategies, timelines, and cost information to increase cost efficiency and effectiveness.
• Coordinates with application developers, managers and customer application experts to ensure that required features and modifications are included in the appropriates releases to support cross-product features and to communicate architectural designs and standards.
• Designs application modules that work together to produce desired product. Ensures that completed modules provide functionality described by application experts and to ensure that performance guidelines are met.
• Plans technical support infrastructure through the creation of service level agreements; leads the transition from application development to support to ensure that appropriate support is available to clients in a timely and efficient manner.
• Provides high-level analysis and design reviews to other department members to avoid duplication of effort in solving the same application problems with different products.
• Works with third party vendors to develop and/or integrate their applications into company products; ensures that applications are in accordance with company product standards and guidelines.
• Works with product development teams and senior designers to develop architectural requirements to ensure client satisfaction with product.

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
• Nine or more years of application architecture and/or product development experience
• Experience working with software systems, applications and network markets
• Experience working with technical products, vendors, and families of technologies and company software and hardware products
• Experience working with application design principles and product configurations
• Experience working with appropriate programming languages, operating systems, hardware and software
• Experience working with mainframes, scheduling software, and other related technologies
• Experience working with software development life cycle

Other Qualifications

• Personal computer and business solutions software skills
• Good communication skills to communicate with customers, vendors, business unit personnel, support personnel, application development personnel and management
• Good analytical and problem solving skills for design, coordination and testing of applications
• Good skills in application administration, design and architecture
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Ability to create and maintain formal and informal networks
• Ability to work with relational databases

Work Environment

• Office environment