Solution Architect - INF0100X2

at Medline Industries, Inc. in LIBERTYVILLE, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Here is a great opportunity to join a great company! Medline Industries has enjoyed DOUBLE DIGIT GROWTH for 55 of the past 56 years! We've again been named to the Chicago Tribune's Top Workplaces, and we're again on the list of Becker's Great Places to Work in Healthcare.

JOB SUMMARY
Architects work closely with business and IT leaders to connect technology initiatives with business strategies, collaborate on and influence change to business models, process, organizations, and investments by contributing a technology perspective and analytical approach to decision activities.

Architects provide the leadership, analysis and design needed to implement business solutions and govern the development of high-quality technology solutions across a portfolio of products, systems and services. Architects support business strategy by ensuring the delivery of expected business outcomes during project execution, and maintain project, program, and team alignment with architectural governance, standards and best practices.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Formulates responses to business needs involving people, process, technology, and information
Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms and vendor offerings and drive targeted business outcomes while maintaining alignment with the overall enterprise architecture.
Collaborates with management, business leaders, IT architecture, and other stakeholders to connect the business roadmap with operational decisions.
Identifies the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures or culture) and financial impact of the solutions architecture.
Produces expert analysis, research, and designs for technical solutions that enable business capabilities, processes, and functions.
Researches and designs implementation strategies for new or alternate technologies that will further business goals and provide competitive advantages.
Stays abreast of current technology trends both in the industry as a whole and with the applications deployed in the landscape.
Leads Technical Design, Analysis, Development and Delivery
Defines the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure technical decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.
Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives, and documents all architecture design and analysis work.
Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects and systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information) in a way that is directly actionable, clear and unambiguous.
Designs and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring architecture, development, and security compliance.
Works closely with the product owners and project/product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
Provides consulting support to application teams to ensure the project/product is aligned with the overall enterprise, solution, and application architectures.
Coaches, mentors and collaborates with technical subject matter experts, application team members, and EA peers to implement architectures that enable and drive new business capabilities and...

Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity