Sr. Domain Architect
What You’ll Be Doing
- Define and enforce architecture principles, standards, reference models, and runways aligned with enterprise strategy and industry best practices.
- Create and maintain system health maps and multi-year strategic business capability roadmaps that connect IT systems and services to business outcomes.
- Design software and domain architectures that are robust, scalable, adaptable, and aligned with business requirements.
- Develop conceptual and logical domain design diagrams; define major subsystems, interfaces, and non-functional requirements (including performance, monitoring, and reliability).
- Evaluate architectural options, identify solution gaps, and ensure consistency, reuse, and simplification across domains.
- Lead architectural decision records and governance processes to ensure compliance with enterprise architecture standards. Actively collaborate with enterprise architect representatives and processes.
- Guide architects and delivery teams with both technical and business leadership, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and Agile practices.
- Collaborate with Product Owners and IT partners to estimate and define features, prioritize the architectural runway, and support solution trains.
- Work within Project Management frameworks to ensure efficient delivery, operations, and lifecycle management.
- Advocate for domain objectives and act as a liaison among domain, platform, and enterprise architects.
- Establish domain architecture governance, maintain accurate documentation, and ensure adherence to standards.
- Continuously drive FinOps optimizations to ensure fiscally responsible Cloud usage
- Lead the Architecture group for a large team of teams by setting and driving an overall vision; proactively guide and mentor the team of Architects
- Perform additional duties as required.
What You’ll Bring With You
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (or equivalent experience/training).
- 10+ years of experience in business application design, development, implementation, or solution architecture.
- Experience with structured design and diverse technical environments, including strong understanding of technical architecture components.
- Experience designing and implementing solutions in Azure including underlying Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
- Proven technical leadership with the ability to guide teams across the domain lifecycle and influence stakeholders at multiple levels.
- Strong knowledge of project management concepts and cross-functional delivery.
- Experience with the Agile Framework orchestrated across many teams.
- Ability to translate business needs into architecture requirements and articulate solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to drive architectural direction, reduce technical debt, and guide security and compliance awareness.
- Experience evaluating technical proof-of-concepts and emerging technologies; self-driven curiosity and market awareness.
- Strong interpersonal, facilitation, negotiation, organizational, and communication skills (written and verbal).
- Ability to understand both long-term strategic perspectives and short-term tactical needs.
- Ability to foster relationships across IT, business teams, and vendors; communicate requirements and guidelines effectively.
- Ability to estimate financial impacts and apply multiple technical solutions to business problems.
- Commitment to mentoring others and contributing to team growth.
Employment Type
Direct Hire
Direct Hire
Location
Grand Rapids MI
Grand Rapids MI
Work Location
Hybrid
Hybrid