[ancosta]

If you know of anyone who can help, we are in need of a contract resource to help with the following role. It is in a large financial services company in RI. Details are below, if you know of someone who may be a good fit, please forward this along, if you have questions or are interested, please PM me - thanks!



Job Title: Enterprise Architect

Skill Set: Senior, 7+ years or greater (see 'skill set' below)

Detailed Job Description:
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Work under the general supervision of an Enterprise Strategy and Architecture Manager to perform macro architecture designs for technical projects that implement the company's enterprise architecture strategy.

These designs will consist of application and infrastructure architectures across all technology domains (e.g., network, security, database, host, application, web).

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for driving adoption and utilization of strategic technology selections and industry best practices wherever possible.

The Enterprise Architect will also guide and support colleagues from both the business and technology groups.

Responsibilities/Duties:
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Provide architectural leadership for projects
Guide and support Solution Architects
Collaborate with the business to identify appropriate solutions
Research and propose project architectural design options
Review and evaluate third-party solution architectures
Review and evaluate detailed solution architectures
Produce UML architectural diagrams
Identify architectural risks and opportunities for the business
Adhere to and promote solution architectural standards and guidelines
Adhere to, promote, and realize the Enterprise Architecture Strategy
Collaborate with architecture colleagues to maintain an Enterprise Architecture repository

Skill Set:
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Application Development and/or Integration skills are critical; Infrastructure (i.e. platforms, databases, directory services, servers/networking) are highly desired. Services Oriented Architecture (i.e. Websphere MQ) is highly desired. Must have strong project leadership and relationship management skills. Strongly desired that candidate has financial services experience.

[Honclfibr]

Is that a serious job listing? All they did was repeat the words "enterprise" "architecture" "solution" and "strategy" over and over again. I didn't realize it was possible to cram that many empty buzzwords into a single page.

[legalspeed]

Originally posted by Honclfibr
Is that a serious job listing? All they did was repeat the words "enterprise" "architecture" "solution" and "strategy" over and over again. I didn't realize it was possible to cram that many empty buzzwords into a single page.

'xactly what I was thinking... they want an internet savvy sys. admin. who is up on the latest security stratagies...

[ancosta]

Thanks for the feedback on the job description - I took that verbatim from the staffing group, and it is lackluster for sure. A better description will obviously yield better results.

The position is real and the offer is serious. If you know someone who has the experience and ability to design large enterprise systems for a top 10 US bank and has experience leading projects with technical and non-technical people let me know.

[beet]

[legalspeed]

Originally posted by beet

shitty, no racey...

you?

[beet]

http://www.udco.com/whatsnew.htm
missed this job by 1
why no racey ? every thing ok ie not hurt wife ok & boy ok bro ??
big dildo maker shit i would have been proud

[bump909]

wow, that was a blatant threadjack.

[legalspeed]

Originally posted by beet
http://www.udco.com/whatsnew.htm
missed this job by 1
why no racey ? every thing ok ie not hurt wife ok & boy ok bro ??

Flood, they made us evacuate.

I'll go to Beaver or Nelson's.

[legalspeed]

Originally posted by bump909
wow, that was a blatant threadjack.

no worries bro, I'm the admin!

[bump909]

haha

no worries here dan, just breakin beet's balls.

[beet]

next time let me know jr git

[ancosta]

So what's up with those Red Sox?

I heard it will be showers later this week.

Last night I had the best pasta for dinner.

When is the next MotoGP race?

[black]

i'm your project manager huckelberry..

[HBerry]

I can do all this crappy crap, and I'm graduating in 6 months. Gimme a job

[dhuze]

Originally posted by HBerry
I can do all this crappy crap, and I'm graduating in 6 months. Gimme a job

Now thats one hell of a resume'

[bump909]

Originally posted by HBerry
I can do all this crappy crap, and I'm graduating in 6 months. Gimme a job

the question is, what do you suck at?

[ancosta]

Originally posted by HBerry
I can do all this crappy crap, and I'm graduating in 6 months. Gimme a job

OK you are hired!

[legalspeed]

Originally posted by ancosta
OK you are hired!

Now where the hell is our architectural enterprise thingy?

[HBerry]

The job description is a bit of a joke as Dan and Darrell said.

I do know database stuff, including UML diagrams, and I know about 'networks'. Perhaps a real job descrition would help weed out some of those highschool drop outs.

[Honclfibr]

Originally posted by legalspeed
Now where the hell is our architectural enterprise thingy?

Maybe he's still collaborating with the business to identify appropriate solutions? That seems like it would take some time.

[HBerry]

Call in Franklin Covey, I'm sure he could help!

[bump909]

Originally posted by Honclfibr
Maybe he's still collaborating with the business to identify appropriate solutions? That seems like it would take some time.

bottom line, shoot them an email in order to touch base on the core competencies of this position. it's mission critical to make sure we're on the same page. moving forward, let's hit the ground running. as soon as they follow up with you, circle back with me on this.

[ancosta]

Originally posted by HBerry
The job description is a bit of a joke as Dan and Darrell said.

I do know database stuff, including UML diagrams, and I know about 'networks'. Perhaps a real job descrition would help weed out some of those highschool drop outs.

Actually we are not getting drop outs, rather the opposite. We are getting IT strategists but what we really need are architects. They need to have the capability to drive technology projects ranging from about 100k through around 2M on their own. We're driving the high level design work for a project portfolio that is well over $50M annually, not too bad for a group of 5 ppl I'd say, but we're stretched thin.

Candidates need to have proven skills in delivering these types of projects as implementation experts (not just PMs but people who know the technology). The other challenge is you need to have people whose soft skills are sufficient for managing relationships, and they have overall the right leadership skills. What we're finding are great people who have excellent leadership skills, but are a bit too pie in the sky strategy types, or really good technical people who are lacking in the social skills. That mix is really hard to find!

As funny as the NESR peanut gallery is, I actually appreciate it because it's somewhat eye opening. Like I said, the job description is horrendous because it is done by someone whose job is to find highly-skilled contractors. Unfortunately they take a really good job description (which I wrote) and they turn it into jibberish.

It's fairly easy to find good candidates but the trick is finding people who have the experience specifically in the financial services sector. We are open to anyone but the banking part is key.

I'll get in touch with Frank Covey right away!

HBerry, If you are graduating and looking for a job in technology feel free to send me your resume and I can have a look / forward to a few of the team leads. We have had some excellent experiences recruiting some people who are ambitious and have good talent that are coming out of school. It's an excellent place to learn as well, a lot of cool things happening.