Job Description

Description: The incumbent will spend time working on customer solutions that lower costs, increase agility and enable business growth. Areas of focus include enterprise visualization, enterprise orchestration, business continuity, infrastructure standardization, open systems migrations and consolidations. The Open Source Architect will be responsible for the design and conceptual integrity of the underlying architecture elements of the Company’s Open Source architecture with a focus on utility computing, information workflow blueprinting, information lifecycle management solutions, policy-based management techniques, and overall data management solution integration. Works closely with company’s key technology and service vendors to evaluate, develop, and integrate their solutions like JBOSS, MySQL, Oracle Fusion, IBM Websphere etc. Contributes to company’s customers’ goals of creating a future-state infrastructure where IT assets are virtualized, self-managed and business driven producing greater enterprise agility and lower IT costs

Responsibilities:
· As a recognized subject matter expert in the Open Source domain, works with internal and external stakeholders to plan, develop, organize, monitor and deliver services and solutions to clients
· Designs and integrates large and complex enterprise-wide solutions for major clients, interfacing with their senior executives. Assumes a creative leadership role to implement the business and/or technology engineering strategy efficiently and effectively
· Demonstrates extensive knowledge of and ability to appropriately use the broad spectrum of Business Engineering and Business Architecture artifacts, including forthcoming industry standards, emerging Business Engineering trends and/or industry trends, and new enabling technologies
· Assumes a proactive and direct role to identify, develop and cultivate profitable business opportunities and establish engagements. Interfaces with internal and external resources to develop proposals and work estimates. Responsible and accountable for the correctness, viability, and estimates for the solution and business architectural environment in client engagements
· Develops and/or provides final review and approval of artifacts that define the business architecture of the solution. Applies a consistent set of business architectural guidelines in the creation of new solution architecture. Uses industry standard graphical modeling languages to develop business architectural designs
· Contributes domain thought leadership both internally and externally. Maintains an awareness of and utilizes state-of-the-art best practices. Networks with peers from external companies. Authors business and/or technology related papers and articles and presents at major industry conferences
· Establishes and maintains productive working relationships with all company’s business units. Uses these relationships to the best advantage in client engagements

Qualifications/Skills Required

Qualifications:
1. Masters degree or PhD or equivalent experience
2. Experience with two or more of the following industry standards and frameworks applicable to open source and open standards: JBOSS, MYSQL, Linux, Oracle Fusion, Websphere, and Weblogic. Industry certifications if applicable.
3. At least ten (10) years of experience in JAVA/J2EE development
4. Experience defining the enterprise architecture for at least ten medium or large projects worth $10M or above
5. Experience as the lead architectural reviewer of designs with experience in mission critical, high-volume applications
6. Experience managing teams of practitioners including architects, technologists and consultants
**Desired**
1. Consulting experience
2. Experience in creation of UML-based or other standards-based graphical architecture models
3. Experience working with Virtualization tools and Business process mapping
4. Experience working with modeling techniques and tools such as Proforma Provision and Rational Requisite Pro
5. Experience making presentations to groups or C-level executives