The Senior Enterprise IT Architect drives IT strategy alignment and develops the architecture for transformative initiatives across the enterprise, focusing on technology roadmaps and cloud transformation.
Kaeppel Consulting is seeking a Senior Enterprise IT Architect to work for one of our clients in Erie, PA. This is a temporary role for a period of 6 months with a possible extension. This can be a REMOTE role with occasional travel to Erie, PA. There is an option to hire after a certain timeframe.
Position Summary
Creates an environment where full context is provided to drive strategy for moderately complex, transformative initiatives. Develops and validates the IT architecture against requirements of the business for initiatives of moderate architectural impact. Sets direction and achieves alignment around the IT strategy and determines the best path to achieve it. Empowers the organization to efficiently make high-quality technology and process decisions that enable our business vision in environments that require moderate sophistication in relationship building and partnership. May perform duties in one or more of the following practices: Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, and Technology Architecture.
What You'll Do:
The opportunity of Senior IT Architect (Enterprise) will focus on enterprise technology roadmap and strategy for a client’s entire enterprise scope.
What Makes You Stand Out:
Position Summary
Creates an environment where full context is provided to drive strategy for moderately complex, transformative initiatives. Develops and validates the IT architecture against requirements of the business for initiatives of moderate architectural impact. Sets direction and achieves alignment around the IT strategy and determines the best path to achieve it. Empowers the organization to efficiently make high-quality technology and process decisions that enable our business vision in environments that require moderate sophistication in relationship building and partnership. May perform duties in one or more of the following practices: Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, and Technology Architecture.
What You'll Do:
The opportunity of Senior IT Architect (Enterprise) will focus on enterprise technology roadmap and strategy for a client’s entire enterprise scope.
What Makes You Stand Out:
- Significant on-prem experience and cloud experience (specifically AWS)
- Prior experience as an Enterprise Architect
- Good understanding of enterprise architecture principles and frameworks.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Cloud certification in AWS Solution Architect.
- P & C insurance industry experience is a plus.
- Good experience in cloud transformation area.
- Applies focus to driving change within people as change leaders, catalyzers, influencers, etc.
- Aligns investments to business outcomes by providing the direction and artifacts for how people, processes, technology, and information combine to improve business capabilities.
- Actively matures discipline based on industry and internal best practices.
- Actively engages with partners to define business outcomes. Clearly articulates business and technical concepts so others can understand the context of our investments.
- Provides outside-in (external, industry, customer, etc.) and outcome-based perspective to drive change that reduces expenses, enables business agility, and improves competitive position. Ensures flexibility of change to future-proof investment by providing the ability to re-configure or pivot as necessary with less switching costs.
- Drives collaboration across disparate groups on broad topics towards decisionable results and provides appropriate levels of open communication.
- Utilizes sufficient facts and sound business judgment to influence decision makers in an evolving environment and captures those decisions in meaningful artifacts. The artifacts are created as written accounts of collaboration.
- Forms an effective partnership with other job families for results-driven outcomes. Presents a unified architectural perspective and function.
Top Skills
AWS
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