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Stride, Inc. is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect who will align business and technology strategies through effective architecture practices, focusing on enterprise data and technology services.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include developing high-level business architectures, creating execution roadmaps, and overseeing compliance with enterprise architecture standards across various business areas.

Skills: Candidates should have expertise in cloud-based architectures, process modeling, strong communication, problem-solving skills, and knowledge of major architectural domains and development methodologies.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include a Bachelor's degree and an AWS certification, along with 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in systems development and enterprise architecture standards.

Location: This is a remote job open to candidates in the US, including Washington D.C.

Compensation: $81045 - $175000 / Annually

Job Description

SUMMARY: The Enterprise Architect provides direction, guidance and definition to create and ensure that architectures (people, process, and technology) are aligned to effectively enable the business and technology strategy. This position enables the Enterprise Architecture team to bridge the facets between business architecture (process, technology and organization models) with a specific focus on information architecture disciplines (enterprise data, meta-data, identification of enterprise data services models).

Essential Functions, Duties and Responsibilities:  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• Leverages expertise in broad disciplines to define future state and drive execution;
• Is responsible for standards, architectural and process with regards to the overall technical architecture
• Develops high-level business and applications architectures that depict the current and target architecture of aspects of the technical portfolio;
• Creates roadmaps that prescribe a stepwise path to the target architecture;
• Defines high level costs, benefits and schedule estimates associated to the roadmap;
• Interfaces across multiple business areas to coordinate deliverables, build consensus and influence outcomes;
• Resolves conflicting business requirements through enterprise perspective;
• Consults on highly complex projects requiring in-depth knowledge across multiple business areas;
• Shapes the design architecture based on strategic business and operating models;
• Directly participates in the development of principles, strategies, frameworks, and standards;
• Ensures compliance of principles, strategies, frameworks and standards across the enterprise;
• Monitors and reports on project compliance and alignment to overall strategy;
• Liaises with engineers and technology experts to ascertain system functional capacity, constraints and support lifecycles.

Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.

Certificates and Licenses: None required.

Minimum Required Qualifications:  

• Five (5) to ten (10) years of development, implementation, or maintenance of large-scale systems across multiple hardware and software platforms
• Equivalent combination of education and experience

OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Expertise in process modeling, analysis and decomposition, rule definition and management, process performance analysis and measurement.
• Experience driving cloud-based architectures (AWS, Azure, Google)
• Exemplary oral and written communication skills including meeting facilitation and presentation
• Effective collaboration skills with ability to interface with all levels of management and staff
• In-depth understanding of enterprise architecture standards and the demonstrated ability to advocate and enforce their use
• Critical and practical thinking - ability to balance financial, architectural, business and IT objectives
• Command in all major architectural domains (application, information, technology infrastructure, integration, business)
• Knowledge and understanding of prevailing development methodologies
• Understanding of common application development frameworks (.NET, Java/J2EE)
• Solid command of common architectures (web, client-server, real-time integration, SOA, BPM)
• Integral experience with business projects in determining and driving process, technology and organizational changes/impacts
• Proven problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to apply business judgment to complex problems and make decisions
• Knowledge and understanding of the business implications of introducing (or displacing) solutions
• Experience with driving product selection and evaluation; build vs. buy concept
• Strong understanding of data/information architecture concepts and patterns
• Broad-based knowledge of the IT industry and trends
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project
• Ability to pass required background check

DESIRED Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• AWS Certified Solution Architect or equivalent certification

Compensation & Benefits: Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections. Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range.

• We anticipate the salary range to be $81,045.75- $175,000.00. An individual’s compensation can vary based on several factors which include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions. Eligible employees may receive a bonus. Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This is a home-based position. This position is virtual and open to residents of the 50 states and Washington, D.C.

Job Type

Regular

The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.

If you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, you can request the appropriate accommodation by contacting stridecareers@k12.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

Stride, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants receive consideration for employment based on merit without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local law. Stride, Inc. complies with all legally required affirmative action obligations. Applicants will not be discriminated against because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.