About this role
Overview
Opportunity Summary:
General Dynamics Electric Boat, the world’s foremost designer and builder of nuclear submarines, is seeking an IT Application Architect to join the organization within the Information Technology Department.
The ideal candidate will have an enterprise mindset with the goal of aligning IT work with business-driven objectives. Relevant profiles include broad IT knowledge and experience with information systems, business and technology architecture domains as well as architecture frameworks and processes. The candidate should be an active learner and able to work independently on multiple tasks simultaneously. This role requires experience across varying applications in the areas of software requirements definition, development, design, and re-engineering
Responsibilities include, but not limited to:
- Interpreting business needs to define and address a solution’s functional and nonfunctional architectural requirements
- Articulating ideas through compelling and relatable narratives to educate and engage relevant stakeholders
- Resolving issues and making progress even when given unclear, contradictory, or inconsistent information
- Collaborating with other IT professionals, such as other application architects, data architects, software developers, system engineers, and infrastructure engineers
- Designing or governing IT application solution architectures to meet internal and/or external business needs
- Managing formal and informal communications with target audience to build more effective stakeholder relationships
- Coaching non-architects to think like architects and apply architectural frameworks/processes independently
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelors of Science degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering
- 5+ years of experience in developing solution architectures
Preferred:
- Proficiency working within a highly regulated industry such as Federal, State, Finance, Healthcare or Life Sciences
- Experience reducing complex topics and distilling them into management level summaries for non-technical audiences
- Experienced with industry frameworks and standards such UML, TOGAF, ITIL
- Understanding of multiple software development life-cycles (SDLC) methodologies, e.g., waterfall, agile
Skills
- Understanding the enterprise-level implications of day-day decisions
- Comfortable collaborating amongst a senior team of architects
- Applying and promoting best practices in a modern delivery environment
- Effectively engaging, influencing and collaborating with stakeholders to achieve architecture goals
- Solving problems, navigating complex situations and adapting to new information to drive business success
- Possessing a blend of technical and analytical skills
Environmental Attributes
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About General Dynamics Electric Boat
General Dynamics Electric Boat is a business unit of General Dynamics with headquarters in Groton, CT. The world’s first and finest submarine builder, Electric Boat was established in 1899 to complete the U.S. Navy’s first modern commissioned submarine, USS Holland. Designed and built by Electric Boat, USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine, was launched in 1954. Electric Boat has designed and delivered 17 of the U.S. Navy’s 20 classes of nuclear submarines. Now in its second centennial of submarine building, EB is the design yard and prime contractor for the Virginia-class submarine program, currently in production. EB is also designing and developing the Columbia-class ballistic-missile submarine which will replace the current Ohio class beginning in 2027.
What you'll do
- The IT Application Architect will interpret business needs to define functional and nonfunctional architectural requirements and collaborate with IT professionals to design solution architectures. The role also involves coaching non-architects to apply architectural frameworks and processes independently.
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