Project Architect-Contract- (12 Months)

Description du poste

Contract roles are geared toward independent professionals interested in temporary or project-based work.

Sia Title: Project Specialist (Non-Exempt Contractor)

Project Title:  Project Architect

Level: Mid

Project Length: This is a temporary position with an expected duration of 12 months (with potential extension)

Project Hours:40 hours per week

Location: Remote

The expected compensation range for this contract is $120 to $130 per hour. The exact pay rate will vary depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to skills, experience, and location.

Key Responsibilities: One of our premier clients is seeking a Project Architect. The Project Architect is responsible for the logical and physical architecture definitions for each assigned project working under the guidance of the  Solution Architect and System Architect. This job role collaborates with the business stakeholders, product owner, project management, portfolio architect, domain architects, cyber engineering, and other stakeholders to ensure the architecture aligns with the business requirements and is optimized for the project needs. The Project Architect is responsible for designing the overall system architecture, including the selection of technologies that are supportable, strategically fit, compliant, and patterned oriented that adhere to architecture principles of both Generation and Grid Solutions systems.

• Coordinate and support the development of solution architecture deliverables and approaches and enforce overall enterprise architecture (EA) solution patterns.
• Create logical and physical architecture deliverables, which include Solution Architecture Definition (SAD), various Design Specifications (xDS), System Requirements Specification (SRS), and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Collaborate with all engineering including cyber early in the planning and design cycles.
• Collaborate with product (portfolio) owners, product managers, architects, and any other product-oriented stakeholders to create a technology architecture to meet the needs of the product strategy.
• Organize and conduct peer reviews of architecture deliverables.
• Create reference architecture and models with design patterns that promote reuse, compliance, and overall technology efficiency.
• Responsible for identifying and potentially resolving technical debt across multiple product lines, ensuring that it is being addressed in a way that balances short-term business needs with long-term architectural priorities.
• Identify and describe multiple solution options to new and maturing business capabilities and able to work with others to understand financial, compliance, and technology impact of solution architecture alternatives.
• Coordinate with Portfolio, Solution, and Enterprise Architect(s) to understand the appropriate business portfolio direction.
• Understand and potentially augment technology domain strategies to ensure that the solution under consideration supports the direction for technology domains.
• Identify, assess, document, and communicate any deviations from EA standards.
• Collaborate with Data and Integration Architect(s) and other solution architects to ensure alignment with data, integration, and infrastructure domains.
• Generate support, critique, and acceptance of proposed solutions.
• Review and potentially influence Test Strategy, Test Plan, and Test Cases to ensure adequate test coverage for the solution.
• Participate in defect resolution process and escalations as required.
• Provide oversight and guidance to technical leads and test leads to ensure that the architecture is adhered to and implemented “as designed.”
• Demonstrate accountability for the overall quality of the solution design; not limited to “as designed”, but also “as implemented.”
• Provide oversight for resolving technical issues that arise during any project phase from construction to post implementation.