Services Architect Cover Letter

Please consider me for the services architect opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

In the previous role, I was responsible for input related to current best practices and 3rd Party solution alternatives as part of the functional design document.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Previous responsibility for Professional Services and Application Hosting / Cloud Services / Managed Services sales including client presentations, developing SOW’s, responding to RFP’s, estimating projects and negotiating contracts preferred
• Substantial experience with enterprise applications, SOA and Web Services
• Proven experience in multiple environments with designing/programming skills with strong Object Oriented skills using some of the open architecture standards such as XPDL, DPEL, UML, Servlets, SOAP, WSDL, JSPs, JDBC, SQLl, JNDI, xml, html and J2EE best practices, design principles and techniques with SOA applications and ESB Software
• Assist with the creation of SOW’s, proposals and demos for CA PPM
• Provide architectural oversight for strategic and at risk projects
• Mentor junior team
• Train new staff on our architecture, and participate in hiring and bringing on new staff
• Create written material communicating architecture, design and implementation plans for given features and subsystems

I am excited to be applying for the position of services architect. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

Previously, I was responsible for leadership and influence towards developing standards, architectural governance, architectural design patterns and IT best practices.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Excellent Dutch & English written and verbal communication skills, targeted on the level of audience
• Technical project team Leadership experience
• Services and/or Consulting experience
• Extensive experience as a collaboration platform administrator, systems designer, and systems architect in complex enterprise environments, with a strong focus on public cloud-based collaboration platforms such as Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Google Apps for Work, Atlassian platforms such as Jira and Confluence and team communication platforms such as HipChat or Slack
• Extensive experience with a variety of end user compute and mobility devices, including but not limited to, workstations, desktops, laptops, notebooks, netbooks, tablets, phones and VR
• Extensive experience with integrating devices and collaboration platforms with enterprise identity federation platforms and services such as Microsoft Active Directory, AzureAD and Okta
• Extensive experience with tools like Google Apps/Drive, Google Hangouts, Hipchat, Cisco telepresence, Mezzanine, and also video streaming tools like Kollective Technology
• Experience in agile software engineering methods, specifically providing architecture leadership as part of an agile organization, evangelizing the principles behind Minimum Viable Architecture

I would like to submit my application for the services architect opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In my previous role, I was responsible for recommendations for business capabilities, data and business intelligence design, interfaces during the design and ongoing care of solutions.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• JSON, JWT, JWT, OAuth, OpenID Connect experience
• Java and scripting languages like JavaScript/node
• Knowledge of security in a Java environment
• JSP/Web UI development experience
• Microsoft WCF/WIF/.NET with Security development experience
• Web services, SOAP, WSDL, XML Schema, and XML Namespaces
• Deep knowledge of query languages, Regex
• Full understanding of multi-tiered, load-balanced, redundant infrastructure architectures

I would like to submit my application for the services architect opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

Previously, I was responsible for leadership and subject matter expertise in the development of standards, architectural governance, design patterns and security best practices.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Preferred Functional Area Certification (Java, J2EE, .Net, J2EE middleware, messaging )
• Proven comprehension of solutions capabilities and how the Clarity PPM solution is designed to be integrated into the client environment
• Understanding of data center architectures
• Solid knowledge of IT infrastructure architecture and service management & delivery
• Good knowledge of contract outlines and their legal aspects
• Good understanding of what IT management in a retained IT organization means
• Good understanding of managing stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills to assess complex requests with continuous focus on timely delivery

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the services architect position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for training and share best practices across teams regarding digital architectural design and solution implementation including review and quality assurance.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Capable of planning and executing on both short-term and long-term goals and projects individually and with the team
• Experience in education, publishing, and/or digital media is highly desirable
• Experience with collaboration and device management in an educational system setting is highly desirable
• Worked in a CI/CD and container (docker) environment
• Worked in cloud infrastructure architecture using AWS or Azure or google cloud tools
• Experience with Java/J2EE and/or Node.js/Javascript, Python or a mix of modern programming languages
• Proficient in web standards, caching and latest web frameworks
• Proficient in GIT code management and branching strategies