Digital Solutions Architect
Company: Black & Veatch
Location: Boise
Posted on: June 22, 2022
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Job Description:
**Digital Solutions Architect**Date: Jun 12, 2022Location:US
Overland Park, KS, USCompany: Black & Veatch Family of CompaniesWe
believe real value is powered by the unique skills and experiences
of our professionals. The interchange of ideas from a diverse group
of people gives our teams an expanded perspective and the ability
to find better solutions for our clients.**Company :** Black &
Veatch Corporation**Req Id :** 63983**Job Title :** Digital
Solutions Architect**Location :** USVRTL, KCP**Business Unit Sector
:** COR-BECIO-CIO**Opportunity Type :** Staff**Relocation eligible
:** No**Full time/Part time :** Full-Time**Project Only Hire :**
No**Visa Sponsorship Available:** No**Job Summary**The Digital
Solutions Architect proactively and holistically leads and supports
EA activities that guide the development and management of a
portfolio of solutions. Solutions include projects, products,
systems (including applications, technologies, processes,
governance and information), shared infrastructure services and
shared application services.You will have a deep understanding of
business goals, objective and business outcomes, business
capabilities, value-streams, and business processes. You will
provide the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks related
to support the development of technology solutions to ensure that
solutions meet business needs and align with architectural
governance and standards. You will create deliverables for managing
the organization's portfolio of "to be" and "as is" solutions -
including systems (applications, processes and information), shared
infrastructure services, and shared application services and
components to enable and drive targeted business
outcomes.**\#LI-AL1****Key Responsibilities****General**+ Obtains
guidance from Digital Enterprise Architects (EA) on standards,
regulations, EA principles, and target-state blueprints applicable
to their specific solution.+ Designs architectures in compliance
with standards, regulations, EA principles and target-state
blueprints.+ Leads detail design and implementation activities.+
Creates technology roadmaps.+ Establishes architectural & design
principals.+ Analyzes technology trends and disruptions and the
practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies
to enable new and evolving business and operating models.+ Acts as
a consultant on a broad range of technologies, and vendor offerings
to drive business outcomes.+ Works closely with the product owners
and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that
can support future business requirements throughout the product
lifecycle.+ Implements the difficult parts of project or products.+
Minimizes technical exposure, cost exposure, and risk on projects.+
Guides and sometimes drives evaluation of third-party software
solutions.+ Curious. Flexible**Plan and Manage the IT Portfolio**+
Leads analysis of the IT environment to detect critical
deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.+ Develops and
applies architectural standards and minimal viable architectures
through the EA governance model, which is informed by the business
strategy and corporate governance.+ Facilitates a collaborative
relationship across product owners and agile development teams.+
Collaborates with agile teams to ensure consistency with the
enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared
technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and
time to market.+ Collaborates with infrastructure and project teams
to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as
to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise
architecture.+ Oversees EA implementation, continuous improvement
and ongoing refinement activities.+ Oversees the documentation of
all architecture design and analysis work.**Management
Responsibilities**Individual Contributor**Minimum
Qualifications**Education+ Bachelor degree in computer science,
information-technology, engineering, system analysis, mathematics
or a related study, or equivalent experienceExperience+ Minimum of
five years of experience in at least two IT solution development
disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture,
network management, application development, middleware, database
management or cloud development+ Good understanding of strategic
and new and emerging technology trends, and the practical
application of existing, new and emerging technologies to new and
evolving business and operating models+ Recent development
experience with Node.js, Java, or Python.+ Experience in Azure
Cloud or AWS Cloud, Cloud Engineering, Cloud Architecture.+
Experience in architecting Cloud Native Applications, REST APIs,+
Awareness of Privacy regulations.+ Experience in implementing
security concepts.+ Demonstrated ability to independently research
technology.+ Experience analyzing and resolving systems and
application issues.+ Experience evaluating risk against cost,
scope, time, and available resources.+ Effective communication
skills.+ Expertise in agile application development
methodologies.All applicants must be able to complete
pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may
include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check,
drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with
any applicable laws and regulations.**Preferred Qualifications**+
Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and
technical audiences.+ Experience developing architecture
blueprints, strategies and roadmaps.+ Exposure to multiple, diverse
technologies, platforms and processing environments+ Good
understanding of product management, agile principles and
development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams
by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and
risks, taking account of technical and architectural debtPreferred
Competencies+ Knowledge of various development languages,
frameworks and database technologies.+ Knowledge of various aspects
of architecture.+ Knowledge of different modeling languages like
UML.+ Ability to translate business needs to technical
requirements.+ Excellent analytical, planning, organizational
technical and communication skills.+ Skilled at influencing,
guiding and facilitating stakeholders and peers with decision
making.+ Ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical
and nontechnical audiences.+ Ability to propose and estimate the
financial impact of solution architecture alternatives.+ Ability to
work creatively and analytically to solve business problems and
propose solutions.+ Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and
capabilities technologies+ UML**Certifications****Work
Environment/Physical Demands**Typical office
environment.**Competencies****Salary Plan**ITS: Information
Technology Service**Job Grade**006Black & Veatch endeavors to
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committed to being an employer of choice by creating a valuable
work experience that keeps our people engaged, productive, safe and
healthy.Our comprehensive benefits portfolio is a key component of
this commitment and offers an array of health care benefits
including but not limited to medical, dental and vision insurances
along with disability and a robust wellness program.To support a
healthy work-life balance, we offer flexible work schedules, paid
vacation and holiday time, sick time, and dependent sick time.A
variety of additional benefits are available to our professionals,
including a company-matched 401k plan, adoption reimbursement,
tuition reimbursement, vendor discounts, an employment referral
program, AD insurance, pre-taxed accounts, voluntary legal plan and
the B Credit Union. Professionals may also be eligible for a
performance-based bonus program.We are proud to be a 100 percent
ESOP-owned company. As employee-owners, our professionals are
empowered to drive not only their personal growth, but the
company's long-term achievements - and they share in the financial
rewards of the success through stock ownership.By valuing diverse
voices and perspectives, we cultivate an authentically inclusive
environment for professionals and are able to provide innovative
and effective solutions for clients.Black & Veatch Holding Company,
its subsidiaries and its affiliated companies, complies with all
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) affirmative action laws and
regulations. Black & Veatch does not discriminate on the basis of
age, race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status,
genetic information, sexual orientation, gender Identity and
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please clickand.**Notice to External Search Firms** : Black &
Veatch does not accept unsolicited resumes and will not be
obligated to pay a placement fee for unsolicited resumes. Black &
Veatch Talent Acquisition engages with search firms directly for
hiring needs.**Job Segment:** Architecture, Engineer,
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