Dynamics CRM Architect

Acts in a leadership role that ensures the IT architectural strategy aligns with the overall corporate strategy and is tune with evolving business trends and technology capabilities. Assists in the development of solution options to arrive at better decisions that will reduce IT cost, improve system flows, increase agility, and remove duplicative functionality. Supports the management of risk associated with IT assets through the development and promotion of standards and polices. Expertise may be concentrated in one or more domains.

Responsibilities

• Translates overall IT roadmap into actionable processes. Supports the establishment of targeted architecture and develops standards for the organization covering all key domains (Application, Data, and Infrastructure).
• Assists in the definition of the current and future state and the transitional plan. Focuses on the incremental improvements that move toward the future state looking for opportunities to streamline environments and remove redundancy.
• Collaborates within teams, participates in reviews of all prospective software and hardware acquisitions. Evaluates compatibility with current architecture and supports future architecture roadmaps. Identifies architectural risks and proposes alternatives and solutions. Documents exceptions to architectural standards.
• Reviews new and existing IT standards, and architectural plans modifies or creates standards and policies to support the future state. Develops architectural metrics and reports for the executive team, business and IT management.
• Maintains active awareness of IT industry including new developments, emerging trends, development tools and best practices.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent combination of training/education and experience.
• 5 years proven ability to transfer technology to end user applications/environments.
• 3 years of experience influencing technical direction in one of the following: application, data bases, or infrastructure.

Technical Skills and Knowledge:

• Dynamics CRM architecture experience
• Experience with suite of IT applications including transactional, middleware integration, workflow, web based.
• Solid knowledge in infrastructure and networks with a focus on security.
• Solid understanding of various project methodology disciplines with solid knowledge of information and systems architectures, highly proficient in website architectures.
• Solid understanding of various data base platforms and data warehousing.
• Exposure to EA Framework such as FEAC, TOGAF or DODAF.

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