[ref. c56294202] Senior Architect, IT Security

apartmentETS placeDelhi calendar_month 

Job Description

About ETS

ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders.

Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL, TOEIC, GRE and Praxis tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories. Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide.

Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we're partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility, and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere.

With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide.

Position Summary

The IT Architect, Senior articulates the architectural vision, conceptualizes and experiments with alternative architectural approaches. This role is responsible for developing and validating the architecture and high-level solution design against business requirements.

The IT Architect, Senior works as part of a development team on methodologies, processes and best practices. This role helps teams follow the envisioned business and technology direction by articulating the architectural vision through the scope and lifespan of individual projects.

Responsibilities
  • Articulate and document a solution architecture vision
  • Create solution architectures that are leverage-able for future re-use
  • Actively seek opportunities to leverage existing IT solutions for new business offerings and services
  • Align IT solutions with business functions to improve flexibility, facilitate large scale reuse, and improve comprehensibility and visibility of IT's value to the business
  • Partner with business, Research and other FCE and IT teams in designing IT solutions that match the needs of the business
  • Assess and formulate future architecture and technology direction for IT solutions
  • Aggressively identify enterprise IT application solution/technology initiatives that are of value. Collaborate with other architects and teams in execution of the initiatives
  • Review and approve project deliverables to ensure that they are architecturally sound and meet business needs
  • Work with Principal Architects to provide input and assistance from a solution design perspective to the RFP response team for cost estimation using Function Point or Use Case Analysis
  • Influence business strategy by explaining the capabilities of the architecture to management and the SBUs (Strategic Business Units)
  • Maintain a broad business understanding including customer and market trends
  • Contribute to future vision and strategy by conducting research and proof of concepts
  • Maintain a broad knowledge of new technical tools and trends and apply those tools to improving business processes.
  • Map business capabilities and services to IT solutions, and plan IT solutions for future business opportunities
  • Lead the alignment of business strategy to IT strategy, in ways that adhere to IT maxims
  • Actively seek opportunities to leverage existing IT solutions for new business offerings and services
  • Continuously improve processes, technologies, applications to provide best value to business
  • Establish standards in best practice design patterns and pitfalls to ensure that IT solutions perform to expectations.
  • Partner with development teams to develop and enhance detailed application designs and interfaces
  • Facilitate cross team and cross component collaboration
  • Adhere to ethical standards and comply with the laws and regulations applicable to your job function
Process Outputs And Deliverables
  • High Level Solution Architecture and Design to match current and future business needs
  • Deployment and Data Flow Models
  • High Level Use Case Definitions
  • Sequence diagrams
  • Proof of concept implementations
  • Prototypes of possible solutions
  • Best Practices documentation
  • Technology evaluation reports
  • Standard reference models
  • Suggestions for improvement to processes, technology and applications
  • Cost estimates

Education, Certifications, Or Special Licenses

Bachelor's degree with extensive coursework in Computer Science or an equivalent combination of education and experience from

which comparable knowledge and abilities can be acquired is necessary.

Relevant Years Of Experience Required
  • 8 years in IT.
  • Minimum 3 years in IT Architecture and application design.
Other Requirements
  • Varied experience in following areas is preferred:
  • IT Architecture methodologies, standards and best practices
  • Full software development lifecycle (SDLC) experience
  • Software Performance Engineering practice and consultation
  • Rich and varied IT solutions design and development experience
  • Architecture principles and frameworks
The Following Competencies Are Desirable
  • Strategy Competency:
  • Influence business strategy
  • Translate business strategy into technical vision and strategy
  • Understand business domains, customer and market trends
  • Capture customer, organizational and business requirements on architecture
  • Organizational Politics Competency:
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Listen, network, influence
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