Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Amtrak is a leading transportation company connecting businesses and communities across the United States. They are seeking a Fellow Digital Technology Architect to provide visionary architecture services that align technology investments with corporate goals and enhance operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Set architectural vision for core capabilities and aligning patterns to allow for consistency and reuse
- Define enterprise principles, patterns and guidance that help in technology data capabilities, platforms and infrastructure, how applications are built, deployed, and maintained to align with strategic needs and maximizing technology investments
- Provide Oversight and Governance to the current, interim and potential future state of key architecture domains
- Ensure the reference architectures, standards, and guidelines of the organization's technology is safe, secure, stable and compliant with industry standards
- Drive adoption and re-use of the preferred resources, processes and technology across the enterprise
- Mentor other architects and DT teams, providing guidance and fostering a culture of excellence
- Executive-level communication, negotiation, and strategic influencing skills, capable of articulating highly complex technical visions to diverse audiences, including non-technical executives and external stakeholders
- Solve the most complex, ambiguous, and previously unsolvable technical challenges that have enterprise-wide or industry-wide implications
- Design, govern, and oversee the implementation of robust, scalable, and efficient architectural solutions for our largest cross domain business problems
- Translate complex technical ideas into digestible concepts for both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders. Act as a liaison between engineering and business teams to ensure alignment and understanding
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, data and intelligence or related field with 13+ year's relevant experience or equivalent work experience with at least 7 years in a Distinguished or Senior Principal Architect role within a large, complex enterprise
- Must have repeated experience successfully influencing and championing significantly complex architecture initiatives over $10 million, developing capabilities that typically involve different executive stakeholders, multiple lines of business, many solution varieties, highly regulated environments, business transformations at mass scale
- Proven significant contribution to the architecture profession or industry, such as publications, research, intellectual property, innovation, development of training, or contributions to standards bodies or professional organizations. They must also have contributed to the development of professional architects in sharing this knowledge
- Experience creating significant business value realization with $1B+ or more enterprises as an architect providing vision and choosing platforms. moving organizations forward and scaled for future initiatives
- Requires demonstrated ability to manage multiple architecture engagements and effectively plan and utilize collaborative cross functional teams to ensure the architecture objectives obtain key results
- Must possess strong communication and interpersonal skills, work well with others in an integrated team environment, and must be self-motivated
- Relationship building and collaboration skills across diverse and matrixed stakeholders and customers
- Ability to surface, prioritize, and balance priorities across multiple stakeholders
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, including experience leveraging data to inform decision-making
- Technical and critical thinking expertise to break complex processes and products into component modular modern architectures
- Proven ability to align resources, processes and technology initiatives with business strategies across multiple lines of business (LOBs) or business units
- Master's degree in business or related field
- 15+ years of progressive experience in technology and architecture, with at least 15 years in a Principal, Senior Principal, or Distinguished Architect role within a large, complex, and innovative enterprise
- Travel and Transportation experience or relevant technology domain experience
- Experience with governance, risk, regulatory and compliance
- The Architect's skills and knowledge should span multiple architecture domains (e.g., Business Architecture, Application/Solution Architecture, Technical/Infrastructure Architecture & Information/Data Architecture)
Benefits
- Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Wellness Programs
- Health Savings Account
- No-cost Personal Health Advocate
- Medical Plan Opt-out Credit
- Health Advocate (no-cost)
- Life Insurance
- Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance
- Financial and Retirement 401K with Employer Match
- Railroad Retirement Benefits
- No-cost Financial Advisor Sessions
- Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness
- Student Loan Assistance
- Tuition and Education Reimbursement
- Commuter and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Paid Caregiving Days and Backup Care
- Fertility and Family Building Benefits
- Adoption and Surrogacy Assistance
- Paid Family Leave
- Rail Pass Privileges
- Employee Assistance Program
- No-cost Financial Advisor Sessions
- Tuition and Education Reimbursement
- Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness
- Student Loan Assistance
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