Job desc<x>ription
• Provide technical and thought leadership in assisting client to move toward Services Oriented Architecture
• Develop, socialize, and publish architectural deliverables (As-Is & To-Be environment strategies, system landscapes, application connectivity methods and frameworks, decomposition diagrams)
• Create & Maintain landscapes/diagrams/blueprints to reduce application, integration, and operational complexity
• Determine Enterprise Patterns ba<x>sed upon Adaptive Enterprise principles and component engineering practices
• Create application convergence plans and implementation plans to improve reusability
• Identify and define common components for re-use
• Support the release team by reviewing global Block-point releases and advising of negative impacts ba<x>sed on GMAC level architectural roadmap
• Produce application architecture decomposition diagrams which depicts the major architectural la<x>yers (presentation, business rules, Data, Middleware, etc.) that depict the major components (COTS package, custom software, application interfaces)
• Author requests to build proof-of-concepts and prototypes
• Author change requests for new standards, and deviations from standards
• Support oversight architect with the constraints and tradeoffs needed to create viable solutions
• Provide cost benefit and risk management as required.

Qualifications
• 10+ years working experience in system/IT architect design and plan.
• Expert design, development, and deployment of applications using a variety of technologies and platforms (mainframe, client/server)
• Recent industry relevant experience using J2EE/.NET, Web Services, Portals, Integration, and SOA capabilities
• Demonstrate ability to build consensus and promote standards
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills