Hours: 40
Schedule:This position is hybrid and remote eligible for up to 40% of the time. The office location for this position is at ESL Corporate Headquarters in Rochester, NY. Hours are Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Must be flexible to meet current and future business needs.
Comprehensive Benefits:ESL offers a competitive benefits package which focuses on providing a work life balance for all employees. Our benefits include robust options such as our wellness program, family assistance plan, 401k with match, paid volunteer time and Learning & Development training among many others.
Pay and Pay Incentive Plan:Starting Pay: $143,000 Salary Range: $110,095 - $157,227
In addition to competitive pay and benefits, we offer an annual performance-based incentive that rewards eligible employees for their contributions to our success.
Purpose of Position:The Solutions Architect is responsible for designing solutions that will deliver on the strategic initiatives in a way that is scalable, secure and aligns with our enterprise architecture. This role delivers solutions that enable key capabilities across the organization. It plays a critical role in enabling capability delivery while maintaining architectural integrity and business alignment.
Accountabilities:Solution Design & Delivery Alignment
- Design end-to-end solutions delivering business needs while maintaining our enterprise architecture standards and approved patterns.
- Collaborate with product owners, delivery teams, developers, data architects and infrastructure to ensure solution feasibility.
- Ensure use of modularity and reuse of APIs, data, integrations and services.
- Decompose business problems into logical architecture components and capabilities.
- Create solution architecture documents, diagrams and integration specifications.
Business Collaboration & Capability Alignment
- Ensure technology solutions align with business capabilities and value streams in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Map solutions to the business capability model
- Assist in developing the domain architecture components
- Collaborate with business systems analysts, data team, and process team for requirements
- Participate in discovery workshops, capability planning and vendor evaluations.
- Support domain owners and product teams in capability centered design discussions.
Architecture Standards and Governance
- Promote consistency and compliance with architecture standards and guidelines.
- Present solutions for review and participate in architecture review.
- Contribute to reference architecture definitions and reusable design patterns.
- Evaluate technical debt risk and recommend modernization options.
- Mentor IT staff in best practices and architectural thinking.
Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree required
- 5+ years of experience designing solutions in IT
- Demonstrates alignment with ESL's Core Values, mission, vision, and Purpose to help our community thrive and prosper
- Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks
- Deep understanding of API design and integration patterns
- Familiarity with cloud platforms
- Strong analytical skills
- Proven leadership and the ability to collaborate with all levels of the organization
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Preferred Qualifications:- Deep understanding modern data architecture frameworks
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric Analytics Platform (Azure Data Factory, OneLake, PowerBI)
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