Description

Burns & McDonnell’s Project Delivery Team is seeking a Solution Architect with geospatial and location services experience to provide solutions for our internal business lines. The selected candidate will join the team focused on providing leadership, strategy, analysis and technology to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with enterprise governance, standards, and security. This will be an in-office position.

Responsibilities:

• Lead initiatives to identify and deliver solutions to our business lines with a strong emphasis on teamwork, commitment, industry best practices, and continuous improvement.
• Proactively and holistically lead activities that guide the development and management of a solution portfolio that includes platforms, applications, technologies, processes, and data.

The Solutions Architect will demonstrate key competencies:

Provide Enterprise Guidance

• Provide deliverables like standard definitions, architecture designs and work processes.
• Assess the impact of new and existing technology investment on the business.
• Coordinate with internal teams to align solutions with enterprise data governance, resiliency, and risk analysis.
• Responsible for providing strategic guidance, system and technology assessments, system road maps, research, planning, and industry best practices for our business leaders to make investment decisions that support the long-term vision of the organization.
• Create deliverables for managing the organization's portfolio of "as is" and "to be" solutions that enable and drive business outcomes.
• Apply knowledge and expertise of technology frameworks, integration frameworks, and data management practices to develop and deliver quality Enterprise solutions that meet enterprise objectives.
• Actively participate in related technical committees, professional organizations, in seminars, trade shows, and conferences to promote Burns & McDonnell’s capabilities and experience, as a leader in our industries.
• Write, and present strategies, technical papers, white papers, and business plans.

Assess and Apply Technology

• Monitor the current-state solution portfolio to identify opportunities to improve or replace deficient technologies, or solutions misaligned with business requirements.
• Understand emerging or disruptive technology and recognize opportunity for practical application to enable new and evolving business lines and operating models.
• Analyze the technology, industry, competitors, and market trends, to determines potential implications for a given solution.
• Analyze the business environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy systems, or technical debt, and recommend solutions for resolution.
• Lead evaluation, design, and analysis for solutions across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, business requirements and enterprise standards.
• Consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to identify solutions that achieve targeted business outcomes.
• Able to create, validate, document, and optimize solution requirements.
• Develop, test, and lead the implementation of core solutions.
• Able to conduct technology assessments and create technology roadmaps that address key business and technology drivers; providing feedback to internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to lead high-level discussions and strategy reviews focusing on utilizing public and private cloud services to gain technical advantages that are otherwise out of reach.

Understand Business Needs

• Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives.
• Understand business drivers and capabilities (current and future state) and determine corresponding enterprise solution design and requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.
• Understand the concepts and importance of business goals, objectives, outcomes, capabilities, and processes.
• Application and technology knowledge, data and design methodologies, and general technical skills to implement core solutions with our business lines.
• Assist business lines in defining and optimizing engineering work processes.
• Apply industry experience and best practices to design, and implement, enterprise solutions to satisfy complex business requirements.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field is preferred. Relevant work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.
• A minimum of 8 years of experience providing enterprise architecture strategies, enterprise integration solutions and services leveraging various applications and technical platforms.
• Excellent enterprise architecture and integration skills, including data architecture, cloud architecture, middleware and other architectural methods and practices.
• Experience in large-scale enterprise transformation projects using industry enterprise architecture strategy solutions and middleware technologies.
• Strong ability to influence or lead enterprise integration project execution.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Expert knowledge with application data analysis and transformation at various layers of the architecture and the ability to present data transformation during multiple stages of the architecture.
• Experience with the leading-edge application, middleware technology and solutions utilizing data strategies.
• Experience with a variety of project execution methodologies, including but not limed to Waterfall and Agile.
• Experience developing enterprise architecture strategies focusing on data, applications, and technologies for clients in the utility industry.
• Experience in integrating operational systems in Electric Transmission/Distribution/Generation/Telecom (SCADA, ADMS), Municipal Government, Federal Government, Airport and Facilities industries is preferred.

Physical:

• The office environment is the typical work setting. Must have the ability to use repetitive hand motion and the ability to grasp and type using general office equipment. Must be able to sit for long periods of time, talk, hear, walk, and stand. The ability to travel via commercial air carriers is a must. The field environment may include travel for several weeks at a time and working in various climates throughout the year. Travel to a job site may require traversing potentially ungraded ground, steps, ladders, and exposure to outdoor weather conditions. Ability to balance, bend, carry weighted objects up to 20 lbs., climb, crawl, grasp, kneel, and stand for extended periods of time.

Cognitive:

• Ability to understand, remember and communicate routine, factual information.
• Ability to understand complex problems and collaborate and explore alternative resolutions.
• Ability to remember and apply oral and/or written instructions or other information.
• Ability to make informal presentations, inside and/or outside the organization. Ability to speak before groups.
• Ability to compose materials such as detailed reports, work-related manuals and publications of a limited scope or impact. Ability to make presentations outside the immediate work area.
• Ability to organize thoughts and ideas into understandable terminology.
• Ability to apply common sense in performing job. Ability to make decisions which have a significant impact on immediate work unit and monitor impact outside work unit.
• Ability to organize and prioritize own work schedule on short-term basis.
• Ability to compute, analyze and interpret data for reporting and decision making purposes.
• Ability to adapt, analyze, assess, calculate, make decisions, exercise good judgment, prioritize, read, memorize.
• Ability to learn and leverage new technologies to solve complex problems.

EEO/Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans

Job Engineering Technicians

Primary Location US-MO-Kansas City

Schedule: Full-time

Travel: Yes, 25 % of the Time

Req ID: 225962 Job Hire Type Experienced

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