Evaluate a requestor's needs or specifications and translate them into a conceptual,
logical, and physical set of architectural models and deliverables.
Select which standards will be applied to a solution.
Define how systems will be structured and constructed.
Balance data designs for optimized access with other factors such as batch data
loading, competing resource requirements, and regulatory/security requirements.
Ensure architecture alignment with current and future business priorities and directives
at the line of business level.
Understand how project level solution success will be measured.
Advise, consult, participate, and/or lead application prototypes and proof of concepts
in support of application development projects.
Leverage technology advances through tactical and strategic technology solutions,
reference architectures, frameworks, and components.
Perform business impact and cost/benefit analysis of different architectures and
assist in developing business cases for projects.
Collaborate with and mentor application teams in creation of a solution architecture
involving application patterns, frameworks, componsition, inter-intra communications,
data access and delivery, technology platform validation, reporting, and capacity
planning.
Educate technical associates in reference architectures and architectural approaches
through educational meetings, staff, meetings, and one-on-one sessions.
Ensure compliance in in-house developed, custom applications or services with control
objectives to ensure continued data integrity and security, and compliance with
industry, internal, and regulatory requirements.
Coordinate data integration activities as part of an overall integration architecture
for applictions development and maintenance.
Work with application vendors, manage vendor relationships, and influence future
vendor product features.
Provide leadership on migration strategies of software components and applications
from current state to future state while consistently reviewing the evolution, transition,
and retirement of components.
Participate capacity planning and availability planning activities.
