Job Description
As a Solution Architect, your mission is to work with business stakeholders and senior engineering staff across the Product Development and IT organizations to design the best solutions to address the business objectives for your assigned product platform(s). The role requires a strong understanding of technology, software development, and application architecture as well as excellent communication and interpersonal skills.IT Architecture focuses on developing high level frameworks that align an organization’s IT infrastructure with business processes/data to improve the efficiency and productivity of business operations including: mapping the relationships between information systems components (i.e., end users, business processes, applications, data, IT platform hardware/software, and networks); identifying key interactions and dependencies across separate systems and platforms. Bachelor's degree (advanced degree preferred), 8-10+ years of related professional experience
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
Overall K12 Architecture
Understand K12 technology environment and architecture strategy;Actively participate in the Architecture Council, bringing your proposed solutions to the council for review and providing insightful analysis and feedback on solutions brought by others;Understand the architectural strategy and roadmaps for product platforms other than your own, maintaining awareness of the mutual dependencies and cross-platform impacts;Work with solution architects’ peers, engineering directors, engineering team and other technology stakeholders to evaluate solution architecture options and select the most appropriate one.Product and Platform
Work with business representatives to understand their needs with respect to your platforms, including both functional requirements and other drivers such as total cost of ownership, time to market, etc;Define and maintain an architectural vision