Senior Solutions Architect at Sonesta International Hotels Corporation in Newton, Massachusetts

Job Description:

Job Description Summary

The role of the Senior Solutions Architect is to enable business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritize current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer-term strategic vision of the organization. Furthermore, the solutions architect provides technology guidance, road maps, principles, standards, and best practices.

Job Description

• Provides overall direction, guidance, and definition of IT architecture to effectively support the corporate business strategy.


• Ensures all projects follow the 6 pillars of the well-architected framework.


• Reviews existing business processes and establishes metrics to improve business processes, as well as support of all architectural disciplines under their direction.


• Leads programs to develop, maintain, and govern the software architecture across the multiple projects.


• Works on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized architecture domains.


• Attends the EA review board and ensures that the solutions are compliant with target-state architecture models.


• Aligns architecture strategy with business goals.


• Defines, explains, and advocates technology strategy.


• Develops and communicates architectural policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.


• Promotes the EA process, outcomes, and results to the organization and senior leadership.


• Leads and facilitates the creation of governing principles to guide EA decision making.


• Follows the EA governance processes.


• Manages exceptions to architectural standards at a project level.


• Reviews and/or analyzes and develops architectural requirements as needed for specific projects or products


• Ensures the conceptual completeness of the technical solutions.


• Leads teams in developing technology plans.


• Approves modification of the software architecture to accommodate project needs.


• Provides strategic consultation to business and IT leaders.


• Advises on options, risks, costs versus benefits, system impacts, and technology priorities.


• Works with business leaders to understand business requirements and help them understand how technology tradeoffs influence strategy.


• Consults with project teams to fit projects to software architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the software architecture.


• Develops a communication plan for architecture at the project level.


• Ensures recommendations are based on business relevance, appropriate timing, and deployment.


• Approves the tools and components used within the enterprise.


• Works with senior leadership to approve allocation of budget to meet architectural initiatives critical to business/mission success.


• Collaborates with project management and IT leaders to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with project goals and requirements.


• Defines the skills, competencies in the skills, and talents for architecture team members, and works with human resources to acquire staff.

Position Requirements

Formal Education

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, system analysis, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

Knowledge & Experience

• 15 or more years of IT and business/industry work experience including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management, and infrastructure planning and operations.


• Leadership experience in managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders.


• Requires exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.


• Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture, business re-engineering principles and processes, and basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting.

Personal Attributes

• Strong written and oral communication skills.


• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.


• Ability to present ideas in user-friendly language.

Work Conditions

• Overtime hours as required.


• Sitting for extended periods of time.


• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and to handle other computer components.


• Lifting and transporting of moderately heavy objects, such as computers, devices, and peripherals.

Additional Job Description

Benefits

Sonesta recognizes that benefits play a vital role in helping ensure the health and financial security of employees and their families. We offer a variety of benefits to our employees including:

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance


• Health Savings Account with Company Match


• 401(k) Retirement Plan with Company Match


• Paid Vacation and Sick Days


• Sonesta Hotel Discounts


• Educational Assistance


• Paid Parental Leave


• Company Paid Life Insurance


• Company Paid Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance


• Various Employee Perks and Discounts

Upon submitting your application, please ensure you complete a full application in addition to attaching a resume. Incomplete applications received will not be considered.