Boston College Introduction

Founded in 1863, Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university located six miles from downtown Boston with an enrollment of 9,484 full-time undergraduates and 5,250 graduate and professional students. Ranked 35 among national universities, Boston College has 888 full-time and 1,281 FTE faculty, 2,711 non-faculty employees, an operating budget of $1.4 billion, and an endowment in excess of $3.5 billion.

Job Description

Job Duties:
Analyze demand for architecture services, assess the current architecture to ensure suitability for future business needs, participate in setting strategy for target architecture, and work on tactical solutions. Duties include:

- Analyze, define, and document system architecture and design for business processes, data, workflow, logical processes, hardware, interfaces with other systems, interior and exterior checks and controls, and outputs and operating system environment.
- Provide technical consulting on projects to define and document the technical blueprints and reference architecture models for IT Services.
- Develop and maintain reference architecture models.
- Perform technical reviews to ensure new project ideas conform to architecture principles.
- Review new proof of concepts to ensure a good fit with the existing application architecture models
- Stay abreast of new technologies and provide guidance for exploring new technologies and tools and integrating them.
- Take a lead role in the full life cycle development of the technical solutions for infrastructure upgrades and applications development from initial concept, requirement gathering, design, delivery, acceptance and operational support.
- Support existing technologies and implementations and lead the efforts to upgrade existing applications and implementations to meet the changing security, user expectations, and software licensing needs and the organization's need to support evolving hybrid cloud computing environment.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor's or higher degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Applied Computer Science, or related field plus 5 years of experience in a system architecture-related occupation.

Experience must include the following, which may be gained concurrently:

1. 5 years of experience using software development principles and software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies including Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall to develop Infrastructure and integration projects including Identity and Access Management, and Integration with business applications.
2. 5 years of experience performing quality assurance and testing practices to ensure the reliability and robustness of the software architecture and proficiency in programming languages.
3. 5 years of experience conceptualizing and designing scalable, reliable, and maintainable software architectures and distributed systems.
4. 5 years of experience using programming languages including Java and JavaScript and with relevant frameworks and technologies including SpringBoot and AngularJS.
5. 5 years of experience applying software development principles, including object-oriented programming, design patterns, and architectural styles including Model View Controller and microservices.
6. 5 years of experience designing distributed systems, including considerations for performance, security, high availability, and scalability.
7. 5 years of experience identifying and mitigating technical risks early in the development process.

Closing Statement

Boston College offers a broad and competitive range of benefits depending on your job classification eligibility:

• Tuition remission for Employees
• Tuition remission for Spouses and Children who meet eligibility requirements
• Generous Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Low-Cost Life Insurance
• Eligibility for both University-Funded 401k and Employer-Sponsored 403b Retirement Plans
• Paid Holidays Annually
• Generous Sick and Vacation Pay
• Additional benefits can be found on https://www.bc.edu/employeehandbook

Boston College conducts pre-employment background checks as part of the hiring process.

Boston College is an equal opportunity employer. In concert with our Jesuit, Catholic mission, Boston College is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and staff committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment and strongly encourages applications for women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and covered veterans. To learn more about how BC supports diversity and inclusion throughout the university please visit the Office for Institutional Diversity at https://www.bc.edu/diversity.

Boston College's Notice of Nondiscrimination can be viewed at https://www.bc.edu/nondiscrimination.