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Solution Architect

Solution Architect

U.S. Renal CareUnited States
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
  • Temporary
Job description

Job Description

USRC's greatest strength in being a leader in the dialysis industry is our ability to recognize and celebrate the differences in our diverse workforce. We strongly believe in recruiting top talent and creating a diverse and inclusive work climate and culture at all levels of our organization.

SUMMARY

The solution architect proactively and holistically leads and supports infrastructure and application architecture activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio of solutions. Solutions include projects, products, systems (including applications, technologies, processes, and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services and components to enable and drive targeted business outcomes.

The Solution Architect will have a deep understanding of business goals, objectives and business outcomes, business capabilities, value-streams, and business processes. The solution architect provides the necessary leadership and performs analysis / design tasks to support the development of technology solutions. This person will have an overall responsibility to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards. He or she creates deliverables for managing the organization's portfolio of target-state, interim and current-state solutions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Translating Business Strategy into Architecture

  • Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.
  • Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
  • Translates business and technical requirements into a technical architectural blueprint inclusive of application, data, infrastructure and process considerations and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
  • Owns and drives deliverables such as standard definitions, capability models, reference architecture models and design patterns to help align and accelerate projects and ongoing technology investment.
  • Acts as a consultant to internal teams on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes.

Leading Solution Design and Analysis

  • Leads evaluation, design, and analysis for the implementation of solutions across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.
  • Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects and systems.
  • Creates reference architectures focused on detailed design principles, decision points, detailed APIs, major systems and dependencies between business and IT.
  • Manages and develops the architecture for a portfolio of projects or products, working closely with application development, network, infrastructure, security and operations teams.

    • Orchestrating Solutions Delivery

  • Defines the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
  • Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
  • Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging application technologies.

    • Facilitating and Collaborating to Deliver Business Outcomes

  • Provides consulting support to clinical and operational teams to assist with business capability alignment and technology product selection.
  • Consults with application, infrastructure, and security teams on solution options analysis and technology selection.
  • Supports the Enterprise Architect in the development of the IT architectural vision and roadmap to deliver against organizational objectives.
  • Supports the development of best practices and frameworks for architecture definition, sizing, solution options analysis, UI / UX design, etc.
  • Partners with the Enterprise Architect to establish domain-specific reference models for business and technology capabilities for use in strategic planning and analysis
  • Participates in cross-functional discussions within the IT organization to develop an understanding of delivery and operational processes
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