Application Architect MS Technologies

The Application Architect is an integral part of the technical application development team and is responsible for owning the applications technical vision and roadmap for internal IT organization. Application Architect owns every technical aspect of the project(s) and acts as the liaison between the customer and the development team in leading the projects, managing releases, requirements and product backlogs from the technical standpoint.

Work youll do

A unique opportunity to be a passionate, innovative, results-oriented technology leader with heart-deep commitment to success to be a part of our Solutions Delivery team. This role requires web application architecture design leadership for various lines of business and enterprise applications. Responsible for web application architecture, service architecture, and technical design for high performance and scalability in a distributed, multi- tier and cross-platform mobile environment. Regularly supervises the day-to-day activities of a group of employees. Responsible for providing individual contributions, providing design and architecture to the team, assigning work, meeting completion dates, interpreting and ensuring application of policies and procedures. May also be responsible for performing the work being supervised from the technical standpoint. The key responsibilities, academic and skill set requirements and experience are as follows:

Responsibilities:

       Providing technical and architectural leadership for Microsoft .NET web applications.

       Create Architecture and Design documentation for the applications and present them to the review board

       Evaluates new technologies for their fitment into the existing applications or to the new business opportunities

       Defining Infrastructure and capacity planning for enterprise mobility platforms.

       Creating project and application architecture deliverables that are consistent with architecture principles, standards, methodologies, and best practices.

       Leading technical design sessions with the development teams, including the creation of class models, sequence diagrams, component models, etc., and detailed design specifications to ensuring that architecture standards are followed.

       Responsible for defining technical evaluation criteria for product and technology selection and determining technical approaches to ensure all architectural solutions result in a coherent systems design.

       Providing expert knowledge of mobile application architecture to business and technology teams and facilitate the collaborative development of the technology strategy, technology standards, roadmaps, and practices.

       Providing support / guidance to the development teams during the analysis, development, and testing processes.

       Study the Green Architecture set of components to determine possible reuse opportunities. Never build a component that already exists.

       Provides maximum availability to the team, contributes individually where ever required, perform system and unit testing before delivery to QA

       Contribute any reusable components built as part of the project to the Green Architecture catalog

       Set development team goals challenging but achievable for the project, sprint and release.

       Applied research and development, prototyping, and vendor evaluations

       Advising and consulting Deloitte Application Studio leadership on technology costs, benefits, and implementation requirements.

       Working with business clients and product owners to review business drivers, needs, and strategies to anticipate future business / technology needs.

       Improving processes to ensure alignment between the business strategies and application technology roadmap.

       Reviewing and approving 3rd party and integration solution architecture based on established enterprise application strategy.

       Communicating implications of architectural decisions, issues and plans to business and IT Leadership.

       Defining and validating non-functional (technical) requirements, and establishing traceability between requirements and application architecture/design.

       Providing input to the development of project initiation documents including objectives, scope, approach, estimates, and deliverables, when needed.

       Working closely with Performance Engineering and our Web/Infrastructure Technology teams on defining the deployment architecture.

       Participating, and technically leading when needed, production troubleshooting and 'War Room' Activities.

       Staying abreast of changes in vendor landscape, and providing guidance around Deloitte Application Studios long term vendor strategy towards mobile application development.

       Instilling a culture of execution, operational excellence, and accountability.

       Seeking and capitalizing on the opportunities to improve productivity, improving time-to-market, improving solutions quality, and improving cost effectiveness.

       Anticipating barriers to change and creating opportunities to remove them.

       Creating a culture that is based on knowledge sharing and learning from