Director, Enterprise Architecture

With 11 branch offices in 10 states, BITCO provides quality insurance services to special industries including Construction, Forest Products, and Oil & Gas. The Director, Enterprise Architecture (EA) plays a critical role in ensuring the company's technological platforms are in alignment with business strategies. This role will collaborate closely with business stakeholders, solution architects, application development teams, infrastructure teams, and security experts to design scalable, secure, and efficient solutions enabling the business to thrive. Proactively analyze current business and IT environments and operations to identify deficiencies or opportunities, and recommend solutions for improvement; define high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the current and future state of current systems; delivers technical visualization of proposed solutionsPossess and maintain up-to-date practical knowledge of AI/ML technologies/disciplines and their trends including vendors, libraries, tools, and use cases BITCO can use to drive real business valueConceptualize and model legacy application work to minimize ongoing support costs and long term technical debt Provide architectural guidance and support to application development teams and project teams throughout the software development lifecycle and help resolve project/work interdependencies Establish architectural principles, standards, and guidelines to ensure consistency, interoperability, security, and compliance across all IT systems while enforcing development and design standards used by internal/external delivery teamsMaintain methods and execution of interfaces with external products (on premise or in the cloud) while maintaining overall performance and appropriate response to end usersDesign and govern the integration of various applications and systems, ensuring seamless data flow and interoperability across the enterpriseCollaborate with security teams to ensure that security considerations are integrated into the enterprise architecture and all solutions are designed with security in mindWork with infrastructure teams to define the underlying infrastructure requirements to support application needs and ensure scalability and reliabilityCollaborate with data architects to define data models, data flows, and data integration strategies that align with the overall enterprise architectureAudit compliance of business and IT operations against established standards, policies and strategies and partner with ORI/SOC counterparts to ensure alignment with broader ORI enterprise architectural standards and guidelinesProvide technology contribution to business objectives, by conducting feasibility studies, producing high level technical models, and assisting in the preparation of business casesProvide input to strategic IT investment decisions through technical input and architecture services such as vendor and technical product evaluation and decision making Possess deep understanding of industry standards, platform technology, and integration frameworks and provide research on how BITCO could leverage new technologies for future gainStay informed about emerging technologies and architectural trends, identifying opportunities to improve the efficiency, agility, and effectiveness of the organization's IT systemsMaintains current company and department procedures. with an emphasis on REST APIs, Cloud Storage, Structured/Unstructured Data, Security and Data Ingress/Egress.At least 10+ years' of experience within complex Information Technology environments, including network and system administration, IT infrastructure, software development and applications, database management, security and monitoring controls, and management information systems.

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