Solutions Architect

This is a
"remote or hybrid"
role.

Summary
The Solutions Architect will proactively and holistically lead and support Enterprise Architecture activities that guide the development and management of NACD's portfolio of solutions. Solutions include projects, systems (including applications, technologies, processes, and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services.

The Solutions Architect understands NACD's business goals, objectives, and business outcomes. They drive understanding of business capabilities, value-streams, and business processes and their importance in solution architecture. The solutions architect will provide the leadership, analysis and design tasks related to support the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards. The Solutions Architect will create deliverables for managing the organization's portfolio of "to be" and "as is" solutions — including systems (applications, processes, information, and technology), shared infrastructure services, and shared application services to enable and drive targeted business outcomes.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
• Works closely with NACD product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into comprehensive technology solutions that align with the organization's mission and objectives.
• Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise solution designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.
• Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.
• Supports product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services, or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.
• Analyzes the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement.
• Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
• Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify designs to accommodate the solutions architecture.
• Leads evaluation, design, and analysis for the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.
• Works closely with the program management office (PMO) or project management office to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with customer expectations throughout the project or product lifecycle.
• Provides consulting support to application architects within agile teams to ensure the project or product aligns with the overall enterprise architecture.
• Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to support architectural governance to assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and DTSI estate.
• Supports a community of practice (CoP), guiding and helping agile teams, product owners to align with the overall enterprise architecture governance and assurance.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education/Qualifications
A bachelor's degree in business, computer science, management information systems or a related field of study, or equivalent experience. Five or more years of experience managing enterprise architecture solutions or related experience. The candidate should possess strong technical skills and advanced understanding of solution design, product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks, taking