Applications Architect

Applications Architect

Are you looking to launch your Information Technology career?  If so, then UPS is the place for you!

UPS is now recognized as a technology company spending more than $1 billion a year on information technology. UPS provides its customers unparalleled capability in tracking and distribution intelligence.  This technological infrastructure also enables UPS to provide fully integrated Web-enabled, business-to-business solutions.

UPS Information Services, a leader in information technology, is currently seeking career-minded individuals to join our team.  If you are highly motivated with a degree in Computer Science or related discipline, then UPS is a great place for you to advance your career.

Job Description:

The Applications Architect influences the development and implementation of Information Services (I.S.) strategy, initiatives, and governing policies. He/She conceives solutions, builds consensus, and sells and executes solutions across business areas. This position assists in defining the direction for projects and solution architecture. The Applications Architect supports I.S. leadership by planning and championing the execution of broad initiatives aimed at delivering value to internal and external stakeholders. He/She leverages data, technical, and business knowledge to drive the development of technical frameworks and solutions at portfolio and enterprise levels. This position is involved throughout the project life cycle with emphasis on the initiation, feasibility, and analysis phases. To ensure the strategies are achievable he/she will recommend ways to improve data access, data security, and promote reusable data assets.

Responsibilities:

Provides Input to Architecture Strategy and Initiatives

• Contributes to the development and review of the systems capability strategy to meet business requirements.
• Provides guidance and information to support consistency of vision with business objectives.
• Researches business capabilities to ensure effective incorporation of new technologies.
• Develops and evaluates innovative ideas to assess value added, impact, risks, challenges, opportunities, and benefits for the organization.

Provides Leadership for Technical Initiatives

• Leads complex technical project reviews to assess deliverables.
• Assists in technical plan preparations to meet business needs.
• Assists and collaborates with cross-functional teams to prepare technical resource plans.
• Identifies, assesses, and manages risks to ensure successful achievement of project deliverables.
• Evaluates requirements to perform impact analyses and to specify effective business processes.
• Identifies alternative solutions, assesses feasibility, and recommends new approaches to ensure optimal performance and to meet business needs.

Guides Applications Architecture and Systems Design

• Serves as the lead technical resource to provide strategic oversight and planning of strategic portfolio initiatives to ensure proper architectural and information aspects.
• Manages the roadmaps for key portfolio assets to ensure systems will scale and evolve in meeting future business needs.
• Reviews and recommends changes for systems to meet business needs and to align with enterprise architecture strategies.
• Develops and reviews applications designs and technical approaches to ensure systems and processes align with I.S. strategy.
• Provides guidance as a subject matter expert on application and integration architecture to support the development of complex systems.
• Analyzes business processes and systems to rationalize the technical approach and to improve aspects of information systems.
• Provides guidance on applications designs and integrations to ensure strategies, roadmaps, policies, standards, and practices are properly applied.
• Leads development and adoption of core application building blocks and processing and integration patterns to increase productivity, improve customer service, and strengthen competitive advantage.

Provides Guidance for Architecture Solutions

• Produces detailed component specifications to support systems designs.
• Creates designs of candidate architecture to ensure accuracy and fulfillment of requirements.
• Assists in preparing and implementing plans to execute business and technical initiatives.
• Provides technical guidance to support systems development and integration and to enable the timely delivery of I.S. solutions.
• Recommends technical strategies, roadmaps, policies, standards, and practices to ensure consistency and compliance.

Primary Skill:  Object Oriented Analysis and Design

Additional Skills;

• Client Server Architecture - Expert
• .NET Environment - Advanced
• J2EE Development - Advanced
• C++ - Intermediate
• SQL Programming - Intermediate
• C# .NET - Intermediate
• DB2 Data Sharing - Intermediate
• Technical Knowledge of Hardware & Software - Intermediate
• Data Communications - Beginner
• Data Modeling - Beginner
• Data Replication - Beginner
• Good written and oral communication skills

Education:

A Bachelors' and Masters' in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Statistics or related field is Preferred.