Principal Application Architect (51000499)
Internship USA
Job description
· Job Description:
Summary
Provides architectural oversight for the development of highly complex new and/or enhanced applications or products. Integrates components built by application developers and/or programmers as needed. Provides technical advice to other departments within the company.
Essential Job Functions
· Reviews and conducts technical research, testing, evaluation and documentation of complex hosting/configuration tools and methodologies to ensure that tools are current and functional.
· Creates complex 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.
· Develops and designs complex multi-tier web applications; determines project requirements and functional specifications to ensure that client specifications are met.
· Defines and approves application standards and specifications; provides oversight for definition of product content to ensure that appropriate parties are kept informed of client and company requirements and policies.
· 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 analysis and design reviews to other department members to avoid duplication of effort in solving the same application problems with different products.
· Works with product development teams and senior designers on complex projects to develop architectural requirements to ensure client satisfaction with product. Works with third party vendors to develop software and/or integrate their software into company products.
· Evaluates new technologies and software products to determine feasibility and desirability of incorporating their capabilities into company products. Acts a liaison between third party vendors and company to procure, develop and/or integrate their applications into company products and to ensure that applications are in accordance with company product standards and guidelines.
· May provide leadership and work guidance to less experienced personnel.
Basic Qualifications
· Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
· Bachelor's degree in business, software engineering, computer sciences or related field preferred
· Twelve 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 hardware and software products
· Experience working with broad business area and knowledge of competitor products and services
· Experience working with application design principles and product configurations
· Experience working with appropriate programming languages, operating systems, hardware and software to understand product line software and hardware
· Experience working with mainframes, scheduling software, and other related technologies
· Experience working with software development life cycle and client requirements
Other Qualifications
· Strong personal computer and business solutions software skills
· Strong skills in application administration, design and architecture
· Strong analytical and problem solving skills for design, coordination and testing of applications
· Leadership skills to guide and mentor the work of less experienced personnel
· Good communication skills to communicate with customers, support personnel, application development personnel and management
· Good interpersonal skills for communicating with business unit personnel, customers and vendors
· 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