Garmin · 16 hours ago
Architect IT Applications 1
Olathe, KS
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
9+ years expGarmin is seeking a full-time Architect IT Applications based in Olathe, KS. The role involves identifying and implementing system improvements for Garmin’s Single Sign on System, partnering with product owners to create a roadmap for Federation services, and providing technical guidance to engineering teams.
Consumer ElectronicsConsumer GoodsElectrical DistributionElectronics
Responsibilities
Develops technical roadmaps, supports, and enforces adherence to the technical roadmaps and development standards through interacting/collaborating with development teams, functional owners, and internal customers to understand long-term functional vision as well
Negotiates with the business on prioritizing technical work with new business features; creating a balance between healthy systems and delivering critical business features
Contributes to, supports, and encourages application development and integration best practices during the SDLC
Identifies opportunities for improvement and implementing solutions to address those opportunities (e.g. architectural, performance, maintainability, security, scalability, reusability, etc.) within one or more business applications
Translates, negotiates, and communicates complex architectural and development concepts across development teams and key (often non-technical) stakeholders to meet both architectural and business objectives
Performs reviews of technical design and code changes for a specific, assigned portion of the overall applications and integrations code base; providing direction and recommendations to application implementation teams and developers as needed
Recommends technology and development standards to be used on day-to-day feature development
Ensures utilization of standard development tools, technologies, libraries, and frameworks (e.g. Eclipse, JQuery, Spring, JSF, custom plug-ins, Toad, SQL+, JDeveloper, OBIEE, Informatica, etc.)
Exercises a significant degree of leadership to projects and programs which contribute directly to organizational objectives
May lead major development, integration, or application implementation projects consisting of multiple components or sub-projects which require sophisticated project planning
Identifies and implements opportunities for system improvement around stability, performance and maintainability and evaluates new technologies, features and functions and provides input on broader technology solutions outside of core discipline
Works with Directors, Managers, Garmin IT Analysts, and Project Managers to determine system wide design impacts and regularly participates in partnering with Garmin IT Architects by participating in vetting new technology solutions
Assists in validating and communicating detailed Level of Effort estimates for each project
Attends or participates in applicable professional organizations to bring outside knowledge to Garmin
Serves as a mentor to less experienced team members (Levels 1, 2 & 3)
Develops reliable solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creatively
Provides on-call responsibilities as required by the team
Participates in project definition activities including feature analysis and system tradeoffs
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related field AND a minimum of 9 years relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and experience
Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)
Must possess experience (in years noted above) in developing and architecting scalable n-tier enterprise business applications, defining and implementing application development and integration best practices and processes relevant to Garmin's business needs
Must possess excellent leadership skills and the ability to generate and support pragmatic solutions that meet Garmin's market launch requirements, while maintaining high quality standards
Must be positive, detail and quality oriented, organized, analytical, team oriented and a driven problem solver, multi-tasker, and self-starter with the ability to prioritize and lead in a fast paced, deadline-driven environment
Demonstrated experience in successful implementation of technology solutions
Demonstrated proficiency and possess experience necessary to design, enhance and develop single and multi-system applications
Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
Preferred
Outstanding academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.5)
Experience with Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Agile, Demantra, OTM, Advanced Supply Chain Planning, Oracle Business Intelligence, Informatica, Service Oriented Architectures, SQL Query development, Java, Object Oriented Programming, Web development, etc. application development
Benefits
Garmin's benefit program
Company
Garmin
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