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Job title

Senior Applications Architect

Company Harvey Nash Plc
Wage between $0.00 - $0.00 Annually
Location United States, Iowa, Cedar Rapids
Employment type Full Time
Education Not Specified
Year Experience 2 - 3 Years of Practical Experience
Travel None
Published on 6/28/2006
Description
Senior Applications Architect

Because leading businesses large and small trust Harvey Nash to deliver skilled, dedicated IT professionals, you can trust Harvey Nash to offer sought-after, worthwhile career opportunities. We are currently seeking to fill a Senior Applications Architect position for our client in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. We invite you to review the position requirements below and apply today if your skills match our need.

Location: Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Salary: $80,000-85,000
Type: Perm

Our client provides high-quality content for use in a professional context in the fields of health, corporate services, financial services, tax, accounting, law, regulation and education. This position is specifically involved with the creation of electronic products under the clients brand.

The company provides a comprehensive benefits package including Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, Life Insurance, 401(k) / Profit Sharing plan, Flex-Spending accounts, Tuition Assistance, and 20 days Paid Time Off. This is a business casual and smoke-free environment.

Position Summary:
The Senior Application Architect provides the overall technical leadership for the development of desktop and web-based, customer-facing research products. An application architect participates in all phases of the software development lifecycle, driving application design and overseeing implementation, testing and deployment activities. The application architect also works closely with project management to plan, estimate and oversee the progress of application development projects. This position requires a thorough understanding of the technical and architectural details of assigned applications.

Responsibilities:
- Works with application business owners and stakeholders to review business requirements and clarify application expectations.
- Participates in requirements gathering sessions. May assist in analyzing competitive products from a technical perspective to ensure requirements are complete.
- Works with project managers and other development stakeholders to develop approaches and estimates for development activities.
- Provides detailed development tasks and estimates, and identifies skills necessary for application implementation.
- Develops high-level application designs. Drives detailed design activities and oversees the design work of developers, interface designers and deployment specialists. - Ensures the quality and integrity of designs, and including adherence to standards and project requirements.
- Identifies risks and issues related to design and drives the mitigation of risks.
- Performs trade-off analyses in support of product business cases.
- Performs build vs. buy analysis and assists with vendor selection when required.
- Oversees the day-to-day work of assigned development resources during implementation.
- Performs code reviews and configuration management duties.
- Provides project feedback and performance evaluation input for development resources.
- Assists in assessing suitability of off-shore development to particular projects. When applicable, works with off-shore development teams to implement designs and performs formal acceptance of off-shore designs, code and test documentation.
- Plans and drives unit, system and integration testing activities.
- Evaluates reported defects and oversees the correction of prioritized defects.
- Gives approval for user acceptance testing based on testing results.
- Participates in the assessment of the impact of change requests.
- Develops options and makes recommendations for change requests.
- Drives the identification of deployment requirements and directs deployment specialists for application deployment/release.
- Oversees application staging and production deployments.
- Verifies that application documentation reflects the final deployed application.
- May be called upon to provide design or code reviews as a peer architect.
- Stays current on emerging technologies and technology trends.
- Analyzes new and emerging technologies and drive the organizational shifts to implement new technologies as appropriate.
- Participates in external technology forums.
- Defines and drives the implementation of technology and implementation standards.
- Communicates and defends standards at the organizational level to ensure they are applied consistently.

Scope of Responsibilities:
Typically serves as the application architect for products that span multiple businedf-

Experience/Skills
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Other desired skills:
Senior Applications Architect
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