Technical Architect Hartford, CT Stamford, CT USA
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The Technical Architect role is the lead technologist for a product or platform. Third party products with high out of box implementation most likely will have their own technical architecture roles, so company Technical Architects mainly manage internal assets. Technical Architects perform deliverable reviews and manage measurement of deliverable quality within the Delivery Team.
DISCOVER your opportunity What will your essential responsibilities include?
- Specification of technologies, application architectures and data structures as a basis for application change for internal assets
- Producing quality, secure, scalable, high-performing, and resilient designs for new or improved services on both OnPrem and Cloud platform
- Lead the systems analysts, developers, and testers in sympathetic change to the applications
- For internal assets, support Application Managers to develop and maintain the Product Roadmap
- Define and maintain development standards such as system and data design, coding, etc.
- Maintain a capacity plan with historical performance metrics, a future forecast, and a capacity model to ensure services and infrastructure deliver performance and growth targets in a cost effective and proactive manner
- Manage architecture exceptions for the application, including identifying, documenting, taking through exception approval process, and remediation where and when possible
- Monitor application services to ensure performance consistently meets non-functional requirements (response time, security, etc.)
- Manage AXA XL security standards for the applications, including clean code, vulnerability identification and remediation, penetration test etc.
- Work with the Application Manager & Delivery Lead(s) in defining, analyzing, planning, measuring and improving product availability and continuity
- Leads the DevOps team and developers in targeted use of DevOps for their application platform assets
The Technical Architect reports to the Delivery Lead.