Associate Enterprise Architect

Job Title: Associate Enterprise Architect

Location: Houston TX

Position: Hybrid (3 days onsite & 2 days remote from day 1)

Duration: Long-term contract

Job Summary:

Responsible for developing and maintaining the overall architecture of the Enterprise organization. This includes designing, developing, and implementing the architecture for web, infrastructure, middleware, security, and data. The Enterprise Architect will also be responsible for developing and executing the enterprise architecture and executive strategy.

Essential Functions:

• Ensures project implementation compliance Collaborate with Business Units and Architecture teams to determine business drivers and needs for technology solutions
• Utilizes technology research to innovate, integrate, and manage technology solutions.
• Contribute to and enforce technology policies, organization and processes that produce an agile and predictable enterprise environment resulting in reliable and efficient solutions.

Basic Qualifications:

Education:

• Requires a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university. In lieu of a degree, will consider a combination of education and related applicable IT experience totaling eight (8) years, where each year of applicable college = 1 year and each year of applicable work experience = 0.5 years.
• Experience in lieu of education is in addition to the Experience requirements.

Experience:

• 3-5 years of experience preferred in Enterprise Application Architecture, Security Architecture, DevSecOps, Agile, Client Server, Web-based applications and Internet Systems architectures.
• 3-5 years of experience designing cloud-based architectures and security services.
• Project management experience in leading multiple IT application and infrastructure programs.

Competencies:

1. Business and Financial Acumen - Understand the impact actions and decision have on the bottom line of the enterprise.

• Understand drivers of profitability.
• Use resources efficiently.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how day-to-day activities impact CNP bottom line.
• Proactively look for and implement ways to reduce or contain costs where appropriate.
• Knowledgeable of technology enhancements and the efficiencies it brings to company operations

1. Coaching and Development - Develop others' capabilities to empower them to reach their potential.

• Seek opportunities to get input from others for continuous improvement.
• Provide honest and courageous feedback to others.
• Seek out and be open to feedback from others.
• Inspires, motivates and guides others toward achievement of growth and development goals

1. Collaboration - Eliminate boundaries and drive common goals.

• Shares information proactively with others in order to achieve shared goals.
• Collaborates openly with others as a team player to accomplish company/organization objectives.
• Demonstrates understanding of the impact of own actions on other team members and/or other departments.
• Demonstrates behavior that allows others to contribute to their full potential.

1. Connecting, Listening, and Sharing - Maintain open, active, two-way communication

• Proactively share and seek out ideas with others.
• Demonstrate openness and accessibility to others.
• Share thoughts and feelings in a direct, genuine, and respectful way.
• Demonstrate you have listened to and understand others' points of view.
• Actively seek diverse perspectives.

1. Customer Focus Through Service - Understand and exceed the expectations of internal and external customers

• Deliver customer-focused strategies that build and sustain customer commitment and loyalty. Exceed internal and/or external customer's expectations.
• Accept responsibility for the quality of service delivered.
• Demonstrate commitment to continuous improvement of services.
• Readily readjust priorities to pressing and changing customer demands.

1. Enterprise Mindset - Act in way that are best for the company as a whole

• Clearly understand the impact and implications of decisions to the company.
• Place organizational success above individual and team gain.
• Focus on efforts that add significant value and align according to priorities.
• Understand the big picture and the impact when executing plans and making decision.

1. Results Orientation - Reject the status-quo, find opportunities to improve and drive outstand business results

• Drive for results consistent with the organization's vision, mission, and strategies.
• Demonstrate curiosity by challenging assumptions and questioning processes.
• Assess individual performance against a set of measurable criteria.
• Hold self and others accountable for verifying results and living the values.
• Demonstrate willingness to examine successes and failures in order to apply what was learned to improve individual performance.
• Perform the duties and responsibilities of his or her position efficiently and effectively.
• Manages one's own time, energy and abilities and leverages the use of technology for maximum performance.

1. Steadiness-Demonstrate strength, poise, and an appropriate presence.

• Project credibility in adversarial situations.
• Make decisions confidently and wisely, after considering alternative courses of action.
• Handle conflict effectively.
• Remain focused and positive during periods of transition or uncertainty.
• Act to preserve relationships, even under difficult or heated circumstances.
• Publicly model behavior that supports the vision and values.