Full Time Minnesota IT Job
Description:
ATK is an aerospace, defense, and commercial products company with operations in 21 states, Puerto Rico, and internationally. ATK delivers affordable innovation in developing and manufacturing highly engineered products and solutions to our customers around the world.
Our Anoka, MN location is seeking a Solutions Architect to add to our team. This location has a rich history in the community and has been operating since 1922. The Solutions Architect will be involved in the entire lifecycle of an implementation with overall responsibility for the architecture, standards, methodology and designs utilized, including but not limited to understanding key functional gaps, data models, interface, transformation and technical specification design. As a member of the IT team, this individual will be responsible for working with the Infrastructure and Development teams to ensure that the necessary analysis and design tasks related to the application of enterprise architecture (EA) deliverables within medium to large-scope IT investments efforts are performed. They will oversee and/or perform all aspects of project design – technical architecture, development design/standards and testing design/coverage. This role brings a holistic perspective of all EA deliverables to investment considerations and both coaches and measures project teams for compliance with EA guidance. As a thought leader and a change agent, the Solutions Architect typically oversees multiple systems, platforms in a fast paced, ever changing environment.
Responsibilities:
- Participates in the development, implementation and communications of Architecture Roadmap Strategies to ensure that technical systems are scalable, reliable, secure, supportable, and achieve Business and IT performance and budgetary objectives.
- Presents Architecture concepts and ideas both verbally and in writing to executive staff, business sponsors and technical staff to ensure that all of IT and its business clients understands and supports the Architecture direction.
- Participates in communication effort to ensure that Applications and Infrastructure leaders are fully knowledgeable of new technologies, tools and solutions and their impact to their organizations.
- Establish solid relationships with approved vendors and industry analysts and lead their Product Demonstrations and Proof of Concepts for the business leaders to ensure that ESI is knowledgeable of the latest technology trends
- Participates in the Architecture assessment and communications for system retirements and migrations to new platforms.
- Provide leadership for large projects and ensure solution architecture conforms to existing standards or new reference standards have been developed.
- Oversee and/or create application architecture and facilitate development design. Ensure architecture and design will meet business’ functional requirements.
- Responsible for reviewing standards and design specifications and ensuring standards are current and align with industry best practices.
- Partner with business and implementation teams on implementation and enhancement projects.
- Understand industry direction, best practices and technologies to discuss options with other technical team members and supervisors. This including developers, architects, delivery team leaders and management.
- Coordinate the implementation of architecture solutions with technical resources and members of the process and business teams.
- Drive resolution of implementation and technical issues related to assigned projects.
- Providing thought leadership, mentoring and inspiring others to achieve a World Class IT environment within the Sporting Group.
Education and Experience Requirements:
- Bachelor or Master Degree in Computer Science, Business, Mathematics or any other applied sciences.
- Minimum of 10 years prior experience with data warehousing and Information delivery projects, with a deep knowledge of industry leading best practices.
- 5+ years of data/information warehouse architecture experience.
- Demonstrated experience as lead architect of medium to large scale projects.
- Experience with relational database modeling, especially Entity Relationship Diagramming, Normalization, and Data Flow Diagrams.
- In-depth understanding of architecture and best practices for a global enterprise data warehouse.
- Familiarity with standard system delivery methodologies such as Waterfall, Spiral, Iterative and Agile.
- Experience documenting functional and technical requirements, technical design, test cases and training material.
- Proven experience sharing best practices or demonstrating configuration, debugging, and deploying enterprise applications in complex environments
- Possess strong business acumen and the ability to identify key issues and their impact in a broad business context
- Must be able to translate technology into business terms and value, with a history of influencing and improving business solutions
- Excellent written and oral communication skills. Ability to document and communicate ideas to both business-focused and technical-focused audience.
- Professionally mature with appreciation for big picture, attention to detail, succinct communication and client management.
- Willing to travel as business needs dictate.
Preferred Experience Requirements:
- Knowledge of financial applications management.
- Knowledge of manufacturing applications management.
- Knowledge of distribution applications management.
- Experience with various Microsoft Windows Operating Systems
- Experience using SQL 2012
- Working knowledge of SharePoint.
At ATK, our strategy is to deliver affordable innovation to our customers and grow our core areas while harnessing new technologies that will take our products - and your ideas - into the future. You'll be amazed at what you can do! ATK offers a fast-forward environment for analytical and creative thinkers. Our organization is built on a foundation of outstanding talent and is committed to growing the skills of our workforce. ATK employees experience challenges of national and international significance that can't be overstated. United in pride and shared goals, ATK employees come from diverse backgrounds and work together to deliver innovative solutions. Work with the best and unleash your potential. If you are a dynamic, successful, driven professional, ATK is the company that will further your experience and career growth. We offer a highly competitive salary, comprehensive benefits including, medical, dental, 401k, tuition reimbursement, and much more.
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