Principal Architect - Resiliency and Disaster Recovery (Remote)

Individuals in the Architecture role provide overall direction, guidance, definition, and facilitation for the development of an architecture (current and future state) required to meet business strategies and goals. Responsibilities include advocacy and support of the enterprise's IT strategies, identification, and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive useful business context, analysis of the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement, and the development of strategies aligning IT to business. Architects interface across all business areas, acting as visionaries to proactively assist in defining the direction for future projects. They conceive strategies, solutions, build consensus, and sell/execute solutions. They are involved in all aspects of the project life cycle, from the initial kickoff through the requirements analysis, design, and implementation. Additional responsibilities may include the establishment of the overall architectural viewpoints and the establishment and oversight of organization standards and policies. Architects identify major system interfaces, business capabilities need, and existing architecture weaknesses and opportunities for systems. Serving in this role requires an individual to be a self-starter, work independently, and as a team member. They have to have strong communication skills in interfacing with business partners and the IT community. Architects are also responsible for educating and guiding others on architectural standards, principles, methodology and trends. They must have significant business knowledge and have expertise within one or more areas of information, solution, and/or technical architecture in which they concentrate. Architects are expected to mentor and coach less experienced staff and provide knowledge transfer across the organization. The Enterprise Architect provides guidance, road maps, principles, standards, and best practices. They must be focused on enabling business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritize current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer-term strategic vision of the organization. This role assists in program to develop, maintain, and govern the architecture across the organization. They will lead, consult, or oversee multiple architectural engagements and be viewed as an expert and provides knowledge and counsel to others. The Enterprise Architect works on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge within a domain: technical, solutions, business or information and leads domain specific architecture board. They will provide an enterprise-wide perspective and participates in EA review board.

• Leads and coordinates the domain technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction.

• Participates in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.

• Contributes to the IT strategy and ensures alignment with architectural strategy and business goals.

• Responsible for analysis, design, and development of roadmaps and implementation plans based upon a current vs. future state in a cohesive architecture viewpoint.

• Supports, develops, and communicates domain-wide policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.

• Designs standard configurations and patterns.

• Promotes the EA process, outcomes, and results.

• Participates in the EA Governance process.

• Leads and facilitates the domain's architecture governance process based on EA's governance structure.

• Manages exceptions to architectural standards at a domain/portfolio level.

• Reviews and approves recommendations to architectural standards at a domain level.

• Reviews and/or analyzes and develops architectural requirements at portfolio level.

• Aligns architectural requirements with IT strategy.

• Assesses near-term needs to establish business priorities.

• Ensures compatibility with existing solutions, infrastructure, services, and strategic requirements.

• Identifies opportunities for reuse.

• Contributes to the development of software and data delivery platforms with reusable components that can be orchestrated together into different methods for different business.

• Coordinates architecture implementation and modification activities.

• Assists in post-implementation continuous-improvement efforts to enhance performance and provide increased functionality.

• Ensures the conceptual completeness of the technical solution.

• Works closely with project management to ensure alignment of plans with what is being delivered.

• Analyzes the current architecture to identify weaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements.

• Identifies and when necessary, proposes variances to the architecture to accommodate project needs.

• Performs ongoing architecture quality review activities relative to specific portfolio they are responsible for.

• Provides strategic consultation to clients and IT teams.

• Advises on options, risks, costs versus benefits, system impacts, and technology priorities.

• Works with business leaders to understand business requirements and help them understand how technology tradeoffs influence strategy.

• Consults on application or infrastructure development projects to fit systems or infrastructure to the technical architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify the technical/solution architecture to accommodate project needs.

• Consults on enterprise-facing projects and maintains knowledge of their progress.

• Keeps technology and service managers aware of key customer issues, identifying and resolving potential problems and conflicts.

• Sells the architecture process, its outcome, and ongoing results.

• Develops a communication plan for architecture at the domain level.

• Leads the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry, and market trends to assist in project development and/or operational support activities.

• Considers potential impact to domain/portfolio architecture.

• Provides recommendations based on business relevance, appropriate timing, and deployment.

• Identifies the tools and components used within the domain based on the enterprise toolset and can define exceptions as warranted.

• Advises on allocation of budget to meet architectural initiatives critical to business/mission success.

• Develops the business case for approval.

• Identifies organizational requirements for the resources, structures, and cultural changes necessary to support initiatives.

• Collaborates with project management on reporting project status, issues, risks, and benefits.

• Meets with project management and IT Leaders to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with project goals and requirements.

• Develops, motivates, and directs staff to create a team environment.

• Provides leadership, technology guidance and mentors others throughout their domain.

• Define the skills, competencies in the skills and talents for architecture team members.

• Typical Responsibilities for Enterprise Architecture

• Supports all architectural disciplines and champions' architectural initiatives.

• Interfaces across several business areas, acting as visionary to proactively assist in defining the direction for future projects.

• Provides input into allocation of invested dollars to meet business initiatives through review of development (business and technical) initiatives within the context of architecture.

• Reviews existing business processes and establishes metrics to improve business processes, as well as support of all architectural disciplines under their direction.

• Ability to work closely with various domains & partnering with the domain architects to provide guidance on the design of cloud, on-prem and legacy architectures to address resiliency, security, business continuity & disaster recovery

• Identify, create, & socialize guides to explain technology best practices in the areas ofresiliency, security, business continuity & disaster recovery

• Lead the Resiliency Center of Excellence to develop standards around Disaster Recovery and Resiliency

• Experience leveraging software to build DR plans and also run DR Exercises through a tool (i.e. Fusion Risk Management)

• Familiar with leveraging CMDB data in order to build resiliency strategies

• Identify the need for common components for shared business capabilities, develop the resiliency strategy and drive their development and adoptionthroughout the teams

• Demonstrated experience in concise communication methods (verbally & written) with complex technology decisions to both technical and nontechnical audiences at all levels in the organization

• Ability to develop & implement an evaluation process to determine level of high availability and implement resiliency health scoring

• Experience transforming an organization from a recovery mindset to a resiliency mindset

• Well-versed in understand BIA processes and data resulting from BIAs

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, System Analysis, or a related field. Or equivalent work experience. Typically has a minimum of ten (10) to fifteen(15) years of IT and business/industry work experience including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management and infrastructure planning and operations. Requires exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.

• Proficient communication skills and experience in mentoring/leading teams

• Ability to translate complicated business requirements into multiple solution options and explain the pros/cons of various approaches

• At least ten (10) or more years of EA experience, specifically within Disaster Recovery

• Five (5) or moreyearsof experience designing & executing business continuity plans

• Four (4)yearsExperience with designing architecture, including all areas of resiliency within Azure cloud as well as for maintaining or migrating on-prem,legacy systems

• Three (3)yearsExperience with Containers including tools like Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/ECR, and other related technologies and tools

• Two (2)yearsExperience in scripting/code development to analyze/transform data and optimize integrations

We offer a competitive total rewards package which includes benefits and compensation. Our commitment to our eligible population of team members includes benefit programs that are comprehensive, affordable, diverse, and designed to meet the needs of our team members' and their families. Some of these programs include paid time off including paid parental leave, access to retirement savings vehicles, medical, dental, vision, and life insurance options, an employee stock purchase program, and other financial, health, and well-being focused benefits.

Because we take a balanced, global approach to our benefits, benefit offerings may vary by location, position, and/or business unit. Some benefits are company-paid, while others are available through team member contributions. For details visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/amerisourcebergen.

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