General Dynamics Electric Boat · 1 month ago
Engineer - IT Application Architect
General Dynamics Electric Boat, the world’s foremost designer and builder of nuclear submarines, is seeking an IT Application Architect to join the organization within the Information Technology Department. The role requires an enterprise mindset to align IT work with business-driven objectives, focusing on defining and addressing architectural requirements for IT applications.
Manufacturing
Responsibilities
Interpreting business needs to define and address a solution’s functional and nonfunctional architectural requirements
Articulating ideas through compelling and relatable narratives to educate and engage relevant stakeholders
Resolving issues and making progress even when given unclear, contradictory, or inconsistent information
Collaborating with other IT professionals, such as other application architects, data architects, software developers, system engineers, and infrastructure engineers
Designing or governing IT application solution architectures to meet internal and/or external business needs
Managing formal and informal communications with target audience to build more effective stakeholder relationships
Coaching non-architects to think like architects and apply architectural frameworks/processes independently
Qualification
Required
Bachelors of Science degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering
5+ years of experience in developing solution architectures
Preferred
Proficiency working within a highly regulated industry such as Federal, State, Finance, Healthcare or Life Sciences
Experience reducing complex topics and distilling them into management level summaries for non-technical audiences
Experienced with industry frameworks and standards such UML, TOGAF, ITIL
Understanding of multiple software development life-cycles (SDLC) methodologies, e.g., waterfall, agile
Understanding the enterprise-level implications of day-day decisions
Comfortable collaborating amongst a senior team of architects
Applying and promoting best practices in a modern delivery environment
Effectively engaging, influencing and collaborating with stakeholders to achieve architecture goals
Solving problems, navigating complex situations and adapting to new information to drive business success
Possessing a blend of technical and analytical skills
Company
General Dynamics Electric Boat
General Dynamics Electric Boat is a business unit of General Dynamics with headquarters in Groton, CT.
Funding
Current Stage
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