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Black & Veatch Digital Solution Architect Job Details | Black & Veatch Family of Companies in Overland Park, Kansas
Digital Solution Architect
Date: Jan 28, 2025
Location:
Overland Park, KS, US Houston, TX, US Cary, NC, US Atlanta, GA, US
Company: Black & Veatch Family of Companies
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Company : Black & Veatch Corporation
Req Id : 107101
Opportunity Type : Staff
Relocation eligible : No
Full time/Part time : Full-Time
Project Only Hire : No
Visa Sponsorship Available: No
Why Black and Veatch
Black & Veatch allows you to lend your talent and perspective to humanity’s biggest challenges in a flexible environment where you are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities. We offer competitive compensation; 401K match and benefits that start day 1.
Our hybrid environment allows you to balance your work and personal life. At Black & Veatch, you own your career with purpose and meaning. You are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities at every step of your career journey. Bring your big ideas knowing you are safe to be who you are and speak up with concerns or questions and put your diverse talents and perspectives to use.
The Opportunity
The Digital Solutions Architect (DSA) proactively and holistically leads and supports Enterprise Architecture activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio of solutions. Solutions include projects, products, systems (including applications, technologies, processes, governance and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services.
He/she has a deep understanding of business goals, objective and business outcomes, business capabilities, value-streams, and business processes. The DSA provides the necessary 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. He or she creates deliverables for managing the organization's portfolio of "to be" and "as is" solutions — including systems (applications, processes and information), shared infrastructure services, and shared application services and components to enable and drive targeted business outcomes.
The Team
Black & Veatch’s Business Enablement consists of critical groups that help enable the organizations people, projects, and businesses to be as successful as possible. Functions in this group include Digital & Information Technology, Global Finance, Global Human Resources, Legal, Risk Management, and Government Affairs and Real Estate and Building Services.
Key Responsibilities
General
Obtain guidance from Digital Enterprise Architects on standards, regulations, EA principles, and target-state blueprints applicable to their specific solution.
Design architectures in compliance with standards, regulations, EA principles and target-state blueprints.
Lead detail design and implementation activities.
Create technology roadmaps.
Establish architectural & design principals.
Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, and vendor offerings to drive business outcomes.
Works closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
Ability to implement the difficult parts of project or products.
Plan and Manage the IT Portfolio
Leads analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
Develops and applies architectural standards and minimal viable architectures through the EA governance model, which is informed by the business strategy and corporate governance.
Facilitates a collaborative relationship across product owners and agile development teams.
Collaborates with agile teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market.
Collaborates with infrastructure and project teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.
Oversees EA implementation, continuous improvement and ongoing refinement activities.
Oversees the documentation of all architecture design and analysis work.
Decision Rights
Facilitates the product evaluation as well as vendor selection.
Define, Govern, Own reference models.
Design, Govern, Own the technology solution
Key Linkages
Reporting structure that allows for strategic focus and business integration
Executive-level relationships with BV ITLT
Strong relationships with relevant/related process owner’s and functional area business leaders.
Strong relationships with developers and administrators.
Management Responsibilities
Individual Contributor
Preferred Qualifications
Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders and IT development teams.
Technology neutral: remains unbiased toward any specific technology or vendor choice, and is more interested in results than personal preferences
Displays intellectual curiosity and integrity
Motivated and driven by achieving long-term business outcomes
Ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead cross-functional teams
Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences.
Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies and roadmaps.
Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms and processing environments
Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt
Minimum Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor degree in computer science, information-technology, engineering, system analysis, mathematics or a related study, or equivalent experience
Experience
Minimum of five years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development
Good understanding of strategic and new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models
Recent development experience with Node.js, Java, or Python.
Experience in Azure Cloud or AWS Cloud, Cloud Engineering, Cloud Architecture.
Experience in architecting Cloud Native Applications, REST APIs,
Awareness of Privacy regulations.
Experience in implementing security concepts.
Demonstrated ability to independently research technology.
Experience analyzing and resolving systems and application issues.
Experience evaluating risk against cost, scope, time, and available resources.
Effective communication skills.
Expertise in agile application development methodologies.
All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.
Work Environment/Physical Demands
Hybrid work schedule: 3 days in office and 2 days remote
Salary Plan
ITS: Information Technology Service
Job Grade
006
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Black & Veatch is committed to being an employer of choice by creating a valuable work experience that keeps our people engaged, productive, safe and healthy.
Our comprehensive benefits portfolio is a key component of this commitment and offers an array of health care benefits including but not limited to medical, dental and vision insurances along with disability and a robust wellness program.
To support a healthy work-life balance, we offer flexible work schedules, paid vacation and holiday time, sick time, and dependent sick time.
A variety of additional benefits are available to our professionals, including a company-matched 401k plan, adoption reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, vendor discounts, an employment referral program, AD&D insurance, pre-taxed accounts, voluntary legal plan and the B&V Credit Union. Professionals may also be eligible for a performance-based bonus program.
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