Application Architect
Company Name:
Allstate
## Description
The Opportunity
We are the Good Hands; we help people realize their hopes and dreams through products and services designed to protect them from life's uncertainties and to prepare them for the future. Nearly every major Allstate project has a partnership with technology - a partnership that is imperative to the success of the organization. With the company's size and related technology scale, job opportunities and career advancement paths in IT are abundant at Allstate. In order to maintain our place at the forefront of the technological landscape, Allstate needs to hire the best and the brightest talent - is that you?
The Role
The Architect contributes to the design and conceptual models on which applications are based and designs the logical structures on which applications or infrastructures are being built, tested and implemented.
The Architect- Sr. Technician serves as the expert in IT systems architecture, undertaking complex projects requiring additional specialized technical knowledge. The Architect-Sr Technician makes decisions on complex or ambiguous IT architecture issues, coordinating with users to determine requirements, and ensuring system improvements are successfully implemented and monitored, finding ways to increase efficiency.
Responsibilities
Apply reference architectures and positions toward the design, deployment and support of highly complex systems that deliver business functionality.
Involve Director and Associate Vice President level leadership from business and technology disciplines to present and deliver highly complex solutions as needed.
Consult on the application of reference architecture, strategic direction of enterprise technology, and serve as subject matter expert with contextual knowledge of the business model.
Utilize or develop reusable patterns, practices, and enterprise reference architectures that fit within the overall Allstate architectural blueprint.
Drive requirements analysis activities and develop the design of highly complex architectural solutions involving multiple logical and/or physical dimensions. Oversee the production and present documentation for these components.
Maintain awareness of current complex architectures and business drivers and guide their application to initiatives as appropriate.
Identify opportunities to enhance existing architecture.
Assist with drafting the business case including identification of potential business/customer benefits.
Advocate effective architectural designs and optimize current architecture and processes.
Influence clients and partners to prioritize for enterprise benefit and risk reduction and assist in driving the adoption of technology solutions that leverage existing patterns, practices and reference architectures.
Recommend when tactical solutions should be replaced or incorporated into sunset and refresh strategies for assigned application(s), project(s) or discipline.
Ensure that application sunset and refresh strategies are created and maintained.
Lead the assessments and inspections of high complexity physical and/or logical architectural components.
Verify conformance to architectural patterns, practices and enterprise/departmental reference architecture.
Lead analysis of complex system issues.
Make recommendations for major/significant changes to the architecture.
Ensure the sharing of ''appropriate lessons learned''.
Develop high complexity architectural solution concepts and support Pursuit team with feasibility and high-level project estimation.
Ensure the accuracy of current and future state documentation and adherence to Reference Architecture patterns.
Define and confirm the architectural portion of RFP and analyze responses.
Work with strategic vendors and partners to review and influence product roadmaps, strategies, and plans with a view to identify gaps and recommending solutions that serve to gain alignment with Allstate's needs, both current and future.
Apply expertise to ensure appropriate resources are engaged in projects and provide architectural guidance across all relevant disciplines.
Scope projected work high complexity projects and forecast the need for resources.
Identify the need for specific architectural resources and work with leaders to ensure those needs are known.
Participate in industry-related conferences and events.
Provide technical and professional leadership and coach more junior level Architects.
## Qualifications
IT Architect
2-5 years of Java or .NET development
1
years IT architecture
Careers @Allstate
We are insurance. We are financial services. We are also so much more. We are lawyers, writers, web developers, accountants, building engineers, application developers, project managers and human resource specialists. We are creative, driven, passionate, fearless and curious. Our unique culture of inclusion helps us maximize innovation and creativity. We believe that welcoming differing ideas, cultures and backgrounds gives us a competitive advantage in a diverse, global marketplace. At Allstate, it''s our differences that drive our success -- as individuals and as a company. We celebrate creative problem-solving as we work together to make a difference in our communities. We believe in providing the very best tools and resources available to help keep our customers -- and our employees -- in Good Hands .
Connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and LinkedIn? to find out for yourself or hear from some of our employees in We Are Allstate?
Job: Information Technology
Job Type: Experienced
Primary Location: AZ-Phoenix
Req ID: PHO00178
Company Description:
We're more than insurance agents and claims representatives. We're individuals with hopes, plans and passions. The biggest of which is helping people live smarter, safer lives. Doing so means continuing to re-imagine how we do what we do, the impact we can make on the world, ways we can each succeed in our own careers and actions we can take as a company that are good for all. To do that, we need all kinds of people - including lawyers, accountants, building engineers, project managers, marketing professionals, human resource specialists and so many more.Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
Allstate
## Description
The Opportunity
We are the Good Hands; we help people realize their hopes and dreams through products and services designed to protect them from life's uncertainties and to prepare them for the future. Nearly every major Allstate project has a partnership with technology - a partnership that is imperative to the success of the organization. With the company's size and related technology scale, job opportunities and career advancement paths in IT are abundant at Allstate. In order to maintain our place at the forefront of the technological landscape, Allstate needs to hire the best and the brightest talent - is that you?
The Role
The Architect contributes to the design and conceptual models on which applications are based and designs the logical structures on which applications or infrastructures are being built, tested and implemented.
The Architect- Sr. Technician serves as the expert in IT systems architecture, undertaking complex projects requiring additional specialized technical knowledge. The Architect-Sr Technician makes decisions on complex or ambiguous IT architecture issues, coordinating with users to determine requirements, and ensuring system improvements are successfully implemented and monitored, finding ways to increase efficiency.
Responsibilities
Apply reference architectures and positions toward the design, deployment and support of highly complex systems that deliver business functionality.
Involve Director and Associate Vice President level leadership from business and technology disciplines to present and deliver highly complex solutions as needed.
Consult on the application of reference architecture, strategic direction of enterprise technology, and serve as subject matter expert with contextual knowledge of the business model.
Utilize or develop reusable patterns, practices, and enterprise reference architectures that fit within the overall Allstate architectural blueprint.
Drive requirements analysis activities and develop the design of highly complex architectural solutions involving multiple logical and/or physical dimensions. Oversee the production and present documentation for these components.
Maintain awareness of current complex architectures and business drivers and guide their application to initiatives as appropriate.
Identify opportunities to enhance existing architecture.
Assist with drafting the business case including identification of potential business/customer benefits.
Advocate effective architectural designs and optimize current architecture and processes.
Influence clients and partners to prioritize for enterprise benefit and risk reduction and assist in driving the adoption of technology solutions that leverage existing patterns, practices and reference architectures.
Recommend when tactical solutions should be replaced or incorporated into sunset and refresh strategies for assigned application(s), project(s) or discipline.
Ensure that application sunset and refresh strategies are created and maintained.
Lead the assessments and inspections of high complexity physical and/or logical architectural components.
Verify conformance to architectural patterns, practices and enterprise/departmental reference architecture.
Lead analysis of complex system issues.
Make recommendations for major/significant changes to the architecture.
Ensure the sharing of ''appropriate lessons learned''.
Develop high complexity architectural solution concepts and support Pursuit team with feasibility and high-level project estimation.
Ensure the accuracy of current and future state documentation and adherence to Reference Architecture patterns.
Define and confirm the architectural portion of RFP and analyze responses.
Work with strategic vendors and partners to review and influence product roadmaps, strategies, and plans with a view to identify gaps and recommending solutions that serve to gain alignment with Allstate's needs, both current and future.
Apply expertise to ensure appropriate resources are engaged in projects and provide architectural guidance across all relevant disciplines.
Scope projected work high complexity projects and forecast the need for resources.
Identify the need for specific architectural resources and work with leaders to ensure those needs are known.
Participate in industry-related conferences and events.
Provide technical and professional leadership and coach more junior level Architects.
## Qualifications
IT Architect
2-5 years of Java or .NET development
1
years IT architecture
Careers @Allstate
We are insurance. We are financial services. We are also so much more. We are lawyers, writers, web developers, accountants, building engineers, application developers, project managers and human resource specialists. We are creative, driven, passionate, fearless and curious. Our unique culture of inclusion helps us maximize innovation and creativity. We believe that welcoming differing ideas, cultures and backgrounds gives us a competitive advantage in a diverse, global marketplace. At Allstate, it''s our differences that drive our success -- as individuals and as a company. We celebrate creative problem-solving as we work together to make a difference in our communities. We believe in providing the very best tools and resources available to help keep our customers -- and our employees -- in Good Hands .
Connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and LinkedIn? to find out for yourself or hear from some of our employees in We Are Allstate?
Job: Information Technology
Job Type: Experienced
Primary Location: AZ-Phoenix
Req ID: PHO00178
Company Description:
We're more than insurance agents and claims representatives. We're individuals with hopes, plans and passions. The biggest of which is helping people live smarter, safer lives. Doing so means continuing to re-imagine how we do what we do, the impact we can make on the world, ways we can each succeed in our own careers and actions we can take as a company that are good for all. To do that, we need all kinds of people - including lawyers, accountants, building engineers, project managers, marketing professionals, human resource specialists and so many more.Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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