Principal Solution Architect

Company: General Electric
Location: Atlanta
Posted on: April 10, 2021

Job Description:

Job Description Summary Reporting to the CTO, the Solution Architect will lead 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 and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services. Provide Subject Matter Expertise and Thought Leadership in Solution Architecture across the business; thereby becoming an advisor to decision makers. Lead and mentor the solution architecture team and drive technical direction. Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and document all solution architecture design and analysis work. Job Description Essential Responsibilities As Senior Solution Architect Leader, you will: --- 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.--- Define architecture and automation best practices based on industry best-practices (i.e. well-architected) and align with the business strategy.--- Partner with Cloud Security and Cyber teams to ensure architectures and operations adheres to security guidelines and policies--- Partner with GE Corporate organization to align to their guiding principles and guardrails.--- Maintain and apply current knowledge of information/digital technology; keep abreast of new and emerging technologies and help determine how they can be used to add value to the business.--- 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.--- Analyzes the technology industry, competitors and market trends, and determines their potential impact on the enterprise.--- Act as a change agent by leveraging Lean practices to maximize results measured by performance and availability, business agility, technology freshness, and cost optimization.--- Motivate, inspire, and mentor teams to achieve measurable goals. Foster an environment that attracts, retains, and develops exceptional Digital Technology talent.--- Foster an environment that attrach, retains, and vevelops exceptional Digital Technology talents.--- Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to help the architecture review board (ARB) assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate.--- Deliver tasks on-time with alignment to architectural goals.--- Creates reference architectures focused on detailed design principles, decision points, detailed APIs, major systems and dependencies between business and IT.--- Defines the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.--- 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.--- Provides consulting support to application architects within agile teams to ensure the project or product is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.--- Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify projects to accommodate the solutions architecture.--- Assist in the analysis, design and development of a roadmap and implementation based upon a current vs. future state in a cohesive architecture viewpoint.--- Gather and analyze data and develop architectural requirements at project level.--- Participate in the development of software, data, and technology.--- Contribute to the designs and deployment of infrastructure solutions meeting standardization, consolidation, TCO, security, regulatory compliance and application system qualities.--- Adopt GE best practices into RE DT as well as maximizing opportunities to leverage horizontal capabilities.--- Willing to travel international and domestic approximately 5-10% of the time for training to develop personal and technical skills, meetings with BU stakeholders and meetings with technology partners in order to support the company cloud strategy. Required Qualifications --- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, STEM Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math), or Digital Technology-related discipline.--- Minimum of 10 years of experience driving enterprise-level DT initiatives / operations Desired Characteristics --- Masters degree or MBA--- Cloud Vendors certifications to validate technical cloud knowledge and skills--- Knowledge of various aspects of an enterprise technology architecture like business, information, data, network and security--- Understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and DevOps--- Understanding and knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)--- Excellent understanding of application development methodologies and infrastructure and network architecture--- Ability to work with developers in an in-and-out outsourced environment--- Familiar with Cloud and Security level Architecture--- Strong understanding of AWS core services (VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, Kubernetes, Managed Kafka etc).--- Experience in DevOps environment / Infrastructure operations team / Troubleshooting and root cause analysis--- Understand Containerization technologies (Docker)--- Familiar with Database Management (SQL/NoSQL) & scripting language (Shell script, Powershell, Python,..etc.) and automated configuration management tool (Chef, Ansible ..etc.)--- Strong understanding of design of computing or network or storage to meet business application system qualities.--- Understands technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction aligning with business goals.--- Understands concepts of setting and driving architecture direction.--- Familiar with elements of gathering architecture requirements.--- Understands architecture standards concepts to apply to project work.--- Familiar with concepts of costing hardware and software components.--- Knowledge of various aspects of an enterprise technology architecture like business, information, data, network and security--- Knowledge of financial models and budgeting. Ability to propose and estimate the financial impact of solution architecture alternatives--- Understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and DevOps)--- Excellent analytical, planning, organizational and technical and skills--- Displays intellectual curiosity and integrity--- Ability to work with developers in an in-and-out outsourced environment--- Problem solver: demonstrated ability to plan and execute highly visible, cross business initiatives.--- Proven track record working with technical, customer, and functional teams.--- Proven success in influencing across a global matrix organization with diverse teams and cultures.--- Ability to identify new approaches to complex design problems--- Hands-on experience in multi-generation technology planning, convergence and rationalization.--- Strong communication and persuasion skills.--- Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation--- Experience driving and executing digital technology strategies. Additional Information GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is an Equal Opportunity Employer (https://assets.phenompeople.com/CareerConnectResources/GE11GLOBAL/en_global/desktop/assets/images/poster_screen_reader_optimized_w_supplement.pdf) . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable). Relocation Assistance Provided: No

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