Architect

Company Overview:

Charter Communications is America’s fastest growing TV, internet and voice company. We’re committed to integrating the highest quality service with superior entertainment and communications products. Charter is at the intersection of technology and entertainment, facilitating essential communications that connect 24 million residential and business customers in 41 states. Our commitment to serving customers and exceeding their expectations is the bedrock of Charter’s business strategy and it’s the philosophy that guides our 90,000 employees.

JOB SUMMARY
Provide technical leadership, guidance, and support in formulating strategic technology approaches and systems architectures for Charter's enterprise systems. This position is responsible for designing reusable technical assets and standards to support solution development, as well as consulting with project owners on how to best leverage these assets and standards. Broad knowledge of the information technology landscape - stretching from infrastructure, network, client, server, emerging technology standards and trends.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Actively and consistently support all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience

Drive business and IT alignment to leverage reusable architecture capabilities

Collaborate with IT management to define and develop technology strategy, technology standards, roadmaps, and practices

Act as a technical expert addressing problems relating to systems integration, compatibility, and multiple platform integration

Interact and consult with appropriate business analysts, project managers and developers to understand application/project requirements and define architectural solutions to meet those requirements

Work with the application solutions delivery teams in the development of services, components, standards, and frameworks required to support Charter's business strategy (e.g. design patterns, reusable components)

Ensure that projects follow the prescribed development life cycle and meet quality standards

Assist with analyzing and recommending software acquisitions and alternative
solutions/methodologies/strategies and tools

Keep current with trends and technological innovations in the Cable and IT industry, and make appropriate development recommendations

Identify risks associated with component or application implementation

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Skills/Abilities and Knowledge
Ability to read, write, speak and understand English
Must be detailed oriented and highly motivated
Professional communication skills
Able to adapt to agile and fast-paced environment
Experience building and implementing model-driven, enterprise-level business solutions
Knowledge of all phases of software development including design, coding, testing, debugging, implementation

Education
BA/BS in Information Technology, Computer Science, MIS or related field or equivalent work experience

Related Work Experience
10 years experience with system installation, configuration and operations
6 years of software or DB development
4 years of DB schema design or XL message design and web service design
2 years of building automation tools (ANT, Maven, Jenkins) and testing automation tools (SoapUI, JUnit)

WORKING CONDITIONS
Office environment