Senior Solution Architects are innovative individuals who drive changes for people, policies and processes. The Senior Solution Architect utilizes technical and business expertise and leadership skills to direct staff and resolve issues to ensure automation program requirements are met. Senior Solution Architects assume responsibility for driving technical automation program through broad policy decision based on strategic business or IT objectives. Senior Automation Architects provide technical direction for automation development teams through consulting, solution design and review. Senior Solution Architects provide direction for technical automation strategy by being able to connect use cases with the appropriate technology or tool. Individuals also serve as leaders in the development community, providing tools and best practices for automation developers to be successful. Senor Solution Architects work with business units to help them define and execute on automation strategies, and layout the architecture of how those programs should function. Senior Solution Architects have ownership of the technical automation program as assigned. As a recognized leader, Senior Solution Architects will be sought after to coach and mentor colleagues.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Automation Strategy
• Portfolio Management
• Process Engineering
• Compliance and Code Review
• Repository Management
• Organizational Knowledge
• Automation Engineering
• Automation Validation

VALUABLE SKILLS

• Domain Knowledge
• Communication, Diplomacy and Advocacy
• Automation Landscape

SPECIALIST/EMERGING SKILLS

• Service Management
• Statistics and Data Science
• Leadership

Major Responsibilities:

• Provide technical and automation consulting services to ITG and Business Units
• Serve as technical leaders in automation community of practice
• Conduct architectural evaluation, design and analysis of information and process systems
• Ensure automation implementation teams deliver robust system solutions
• Develop, enhance and maintain established service design procedures and processes to assure apt and robust solution and service design

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture with the automation team to assure constant compliance of strategic blueprints and architecture

• Review process assessments and understand applications of automation technology in different business domains
• Identify reusable components, manage configurable parameters, queues and robot schedules
• Drive design best practices, troubleshoot design/code related issues
• Analyze business processes to suggest process improvements and automation solutions around them
• Develop and maintain automation testing best practices and standards for enterprise use
• Works directly with automation community to be a point of contact for architectural questions, solutioning, and review
• Establish and support service management standards for automation
• Executes against enterprise-wide, cross-functional automation initiatives
• Develop automated tools / scripts for use across the enterprise
• Drives the development / implementation of automation work products.
• Thoroughly tests developed products.
• Adherence to all standards and policies.
• Establishes standards of scripts and work products developed so others can update / utilize.
• Prepares specifications of a highly technical or complex nature.
• Analyzes user specifications and requirements.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvements.
• Develops best practices for software design, retention, documentation, and deployment strategies for automation
• Works directly with service operations, product, and vendor teams to resolve, prevent, and eliminate customer technology issues.

• Gathers and documents business, user, functional and non-functional requirements for in scope products.

• Establishes and maintains solid business relationships.
• Actively owns and participates in lifecycle management of assigned applications and infrastructure.
• May provide afterhours/on-call support for applications.
• Has the ability resolve simple to complex production support issues.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Practices and adheres to the “Code of Conduct” philosophy and “Mission and Value Statement.”
• Serves as project management or leadership role in managing work efforts
• Training and mentoring of peers and other staff

Do you have experience in Employee relationship building?, Do you have a Master’s degree?, Education & Experience (Preferred) :

• Bachelor’s degree Information Systems
• Master’s degree Choose an item.
• 7+ years of experience in a Systems Engineering, Automation, or Development

Required

Licenses, Certifications, & Training (Preferred) : UiPath Certified RPA Associate (UiRPA) UiPath Certified Advanced RPA Developer (UiARD)

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Behaviors:

• Understanding of IT organization and its business functions
• Ability to determine best practices and articulate authoritative direction
• Ability to review automation code and ensure it conforms to standards
• Knowledge of system architecture
• Knowledge of CI/CD principles and the design/development of Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Knowledge of agile and lean development workflows and the ability to execute within them
• Ability to evaluate automations utilizing Six-Sigma principles for improvement opportunities
• Knowledge of automated testing practices and the ability to execute in their development and setting of frameworks and standards
• Extensive depth of knowledge in one or more automation domains
• Ability to build relationships, communicate effectively both formally and informally, and advocate for automation across the company
• Ability to determine alignment of new technologies to strategic roadmap
• Ability to teach other team members and other external individuals
• Skill in Utilizing GitHub repositories as code repositories and version control
• Knowledge of frameworks and software design patterns used for implementing software solutions
• Skill in devising and implementing technical automation strategy
• Knowledge of repository best practices and ability to execute advanced workflows
• Understanding what is possible through automation engineering tools and be able to identify which is best suited for use cases
• Knowledge of API usage and skill in executing actions utilizing them
• Knowledge of general purpose, cloud provider, and device centric policy management techniques
• Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence principles and capabilities and the ability to identify use cases for it
• Knowledge of Machine Learning principles and capabilities, and the ability to identify use cases for it
• Knowledge of automation landscape, current and future industry offerings, and internal capabilities
• Knowledge of Service Management and ITSM practices and the ability to set guidelines and standards for automation
• Ability to design, develop, and monitor KPI, operational metrics, and other relevant automation data
• Ability to become a trusted advisor, lead projects and programs, be a catalyst for change, drive collaboration among the automation community, and be a thought leader at
• Knowledge of infrastructure capabilities, standards, and administration
• Skill in multiple programming languages
• Ability to design/redesign workflows and processes suitable for automation
• Understanding of how contracting is handled
• Ability to perform interviews, evaluate candidates, assist with career path and performance evaluations of team members
• Skill in using scripts to execute processes
• Skill in using object-oriented programming
• Skill in utilizing data serialization languages such as YAML or JSON

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