Digital Architect Job Description
Digital architect
provides solution/consultation to implement enterprise continuous exploration, continuous integration, continuous deployment, continuous testing, and continuous monitoring and release automation solutions for all sized products.
Digital Architect Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Tactical problem solving and strategic planning of the Digital infrastructure through platform technology roadmaps
You may be asked to lead or manage a small team of infrastructure architects
Clear problem and requirement identification ties to business case/value definition
Design, construct, test and implement process and technology services and systems while adhering to established standards and architecture via leading established methodologies including Agile and Waterfall
Ensure appropriate documentation is developed in support of value realization
Plans tasks and estimates the required research and volume of activities to complete work
Researches issues, develops recommendations and actively participates on project teams to develop solutions to business problems related to a broad range of business and product issues
Responsible for creating and reviewing Application Architecture for Digital Applications and provide technical leadership in the evaluation of Digital solutions to satisfy business and technical requirements
Support Solution Architects in development of solution architectures that touches Digital solutions including evaluation, selection and integration of necessary technical components
Collaborate with Delivery Manager and is able to oversee the entire project life cycle
Digital Architect Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Digital Architect
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: TOGAF, ITIL, CPE, AWS, ACE, MCSE, ECM, AIIM, SSL, GCP
Education for Digital Architect
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the digital architect job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technical, Information Technology, Education, Business, Technology, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Mathematics
Skills for Digital Architect
Desired skills for digital architect include:
JavaScript
Scoping customer requirements and relating them to solutions
CRM
CSS and HTML4 & 5
ERP
Existing and planned products
HR and supply chain
Overall business operating models and underlying technical architectures
Challenges faced by implementation teams
Continuous Integration/Deployment and Release Management
Desired experience for digital architect includes:
Candidates should be able to link the architecture to the User Experience and UI
Accountable for the quality of the Digital delivery
Communicate critical technical choices, specify (and mitigate) risks & constraints for design & implementation, scope the level of architectural effort, assess team strength, & keep activities in synch with practical delivery & business value
Ideally at least 10 years' experience in technology leadership role within the IT area of a large organisation
Ideally at least 10 years' experience with Digital technologies (Java & J2EE, HTML, CSS, JS/Angular, Amazon WebServices)
Strong communication skills with all levels of the organisation and both internal and external stakeholders
Digital Architect Examples
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Digital Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of digital architect. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for digital architect
- Define the technology vision and Architecture roadmap for digital marketing capabilities
- Manage the digital marketing technology prototyping, selection, implementation, adoption and maturation within the organization
- Apply and integrate emerging technological trends to new and existing systems architecture
- Monitor current and future trends in the e-commerce, web, mobile, and digital marketing space that will influence internal software direction in the future
- Collaborate with architects, developers and business partners to design enterprise applications, including design of User Interface (UI) components, internal/external web services, content management (CMS) and database interactions, and 3rd party cloud solutions
- Lead, facilitate, and grow a community of eBusiness architects to build world class solutions
- Create high-level and detailed design artifacts using appropriate tools and technologies
- Interface with peers throughout the enterprise to ensure good communication and alignment with the larger technology organization
- Ensure projects are envisioned, designed, and implemented using best in class tools & practices
- Ensure digital solutions are well engineered, operable, maintainable
Qualifications for digital architect
- Experience in application security, OAuth, multi-factor authentication, TLS, securing hybrid native and web apps in mobile platforms
- Experience in working with middleware and integration approaches with various web services and message exchanges
- 5 - 7 + years of experience in data architecture, integration, design and delivery
- 2 + years of experience with logical and physical data modeling utilizing Erwin
- Expertise in MS SQL Server and DB2 on AIX and the relevant OS platform architecture
- Expertise in performance tuning via query plan analysis, indexing strategies, and memory and table-space analysis
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Our company is looking to fill the role of digital architect. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for digital architect
- Perform business analysis / requirements analysis with the help of business stakeholders
- Evaluate and manage potential commercial and technical partners
- Operate as a subject matter expert on digital marketing, web analytics and experience management
- Define Mobile and Web application architecture within the WM domain, looking for alignment and leverage opportunities from enterprise
- Define design guidelines and best practices for WM Systems of Engagement, with particular focus on the advisor and client personas and experience across different devices
- Define end-to-end technical solutions that take into account the enterprise architecture strategies and direction on digital capabilities, along with WM current state and constraints
- Produce architecture artefacts including diagrams and blueprints and reviews with Lead Architects and the key digital program stakeholders
- Together with Agile Digital Program Management and application SMEs, determines best mix of development, interfacing applications, third party vendor solutions to meet business requirements and project objectives
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to the teams involved on WM digital initiatives
- Work with Enterprise Digital team, Data Architecture, Security Architecture, Infrastructure SME’s and project teams to ensure that all aspects of the Wealth Management architecture are defined and elaborated in alignment to priorities and needed viewpoints
Qualifications for digital architect
- Experience with data migration implementations
- Experience in financial services middle/back office is a plus
- Project experience following a well-defined SDLC
- Minimum of 10 years of large scale technology development & delivery experience
- Minimum of 7 years of experience working with management and senior leadership
- 5+ years experience architecting and implementing customer-facing digital technologies, with specific focus on digital marketing and customer self-service
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Our growing company is hiring for a digital architect. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for digital architect
- Leading technical missions in a variety of projects and programs
- Provide strategic consultation to assigned line-of-business (LOB) customers in defining or designing business processes, capabilities, and functions, in researching, identifying and internally marketing enabling technologies based on customer requirements
- Assess near-term to long-terms needs, using structured methodology, to establish IT priorities
- Review business requirements, code, test strategies, warranty plans and other artefacts with accountability for the traceability of business requirements
- In conjunction with the Group IS/IT Security Architect, develop and maintain a Digital/Cloud Security Architecture and associated best practices, principles, standards and procedures
- Promote the use of Group IS/IT Security's Information Security Solutions within Nestlé's Digital/Cloud landscape
- Anticipate new requirements for security architecture principles, practices and technologies based on new business models, technological developments
- Research and evaluate inter alia emerging security practices, technologies and standards to improve Nestlé's Digital/Cloud Security architecture
- Conduct Knowledge Transfer to assist the DSU, Markets and Digital Agencies in understanding Nestlé's Digital/Cloud Security architecture
- Develop integration architecture roadmaps to future state
Qualifications for digital architect
- Experience in writing SQL for stored procedures with a focus on performance tuning is a plus
- Demonstrated understanding of current and emerging web technologies, responding to search algorithm changes, browsers, analytics, data and customer intelligence, and content management systems and processes
- Experience designing/developing mobile web sites & mobile applications (Android, iOS)
- Exposure to Advanced Web Traffic Management technologies (Akamai/DNS/F5/A10)
- Exposure to modern development languages/technologies (ASP.NET, c#, Ruby, Grails, Java, Polymer, Knockout, AngularJS, MVC, JQuery, Node.js, ) and associated delivery/deployment technologies
- Experience with high traffic e-commerce and self-service websites
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of digital architect. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for digital architect
- Be intimately familiar with the SBG’s business, competitive position and product portfolio to help drive synergy through close working relationships with the SBG’s Connected Leader, CTO, and Chief Engineer
- Provide mentorship, facilitation and act as a conduit between Sentience Platform, SBG offering product management and technical leadership
- Provide forward-looking strategy in close cooperation with SBG leadership by constantly evaluating and providing thought leadership on new external technologies, platforms and solutions, and how these can be exploited to benefit the SBG and Platform
- Shape SBG connected product architecture and solutions by identifying and leveraging product line assets (at Corporate or SBG level) and drive adoption of engineering best practices and design patterns
- Scope, oversee, and participate in Proof of Concept demonstrations aligned with technology and SBG roadmap needs
- Work closely with the Sentience Platform teams to ensure the successful SBG consumption of platform services, promote alignment of Platform and SBG architecture and roadmaps and provide continuous feedback to the Platform team optimizing and accelerating Sentience uptake
- Should be able work with solution and enterprise architects and derive complete solution
- Provide guidance on CMS (front and back-end) architecture and development focusing on content modeling, authoring, governance and distribution, with an emphasis on Adobe AEM/CQ
- Provide support for digital content authors to define and develop global content management capabilities, tools, components, UIs and workflows
- Assist with the definition of content authoring roles and permissions, implementing and managing in collaboration with digital stakeholders and IT
Qualifications for digital architect
- Ability to understand business and technical context, objectives and constraints
- Must have worked in cross functional and blended teams employees, contractors, customer, onsite/offshore, vendor
- Experience with continuous delivery and integration tools and processes (TeamCity, TFS, Octopus Deploy)
- Experience in designing & executing content management systems, web content management a plus
- Experience applying multivariant testing, analytics and real-time optimization to develop personalized web experiences
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related disciplines
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of digital architect. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for digital architect
- Evaluate and develop/implement/manage globalization and translation technologies, data structures and processes
- Evaluate and develop/implement/manage content repositories (DAMs, catalogues, inventories) and distribution networks/protocols
- Contribute to the process of information design, to ensure that content is appropriately structured to meet the goals for the site and the needs of users
- Actively lead, participate in and/or support specific digital projects and cross-team initiatives
- Serve as a liaison between non-technical stakeholders and technical providers (IT, software vendors, digital agencies)
- Collaborate to develop and socialize best practices for content technology, CMS analytics and data structures
- Conduct regular audits to measure and ensure operational effectiveness
- Deliver roadmap/project reports and routine status updates to management and stakeholders
- Provides real-time feedback on the feasibility of various design or business solutions
- Creates a reusable component library base on user interface (UI) specifications
Qualifications for digital architect
- In-depth experience of integration of components to deliver digital marketing solutions, including consumer databases, public-facing websites, consumer preference & activity tracking solutions, multi-device consumer targeting tools, consumer segmentation & analytics including 'big data analytics infrastructure, multi-channel consumer contact solutions (e-mail, SMS, mobile etc)
- Understanding of legal / regulatory issues concerning consumer privacy & permissions, and implications for solution design
- Experience in the creation of solutions for targeted marketing to consumers via 3rd-party channels including social media
- Strong Solution Architecture experience including development of technical architecture documents
- Working knowledge of J2EE development including use of associated tooling Rational
- Strong written and verbal communication skills plus virtual collaboration skills for working within a global virtual team