About the role
Responsible for defining and maintaining technology architecture, guiding development teams, ensuring solution feasibility and sustainability, managing non-functional requirements, collaborating on delivery approaches, identifying risks and improvements, evaluating emerging technologies, and mentoring IT architects.
1. Through cross-team collaboration, define the technology and architecture that connects the solutions within ARTs, while guiding the development/engineering team in their portion of the solution’s design.
2. Define, build, and continuously maintain the architectural runway to provide a technical foundation that allows teams and ARTs to create new functionality quickly and reliably.
3. Collaborate with other architects to ensure solutions are feasible and sustainable by applying FedEx best practices and design standardizations.
4. Manage non-functional requirements and compliance to ensure technical solutions meet necessary quality attributes such as performance, scalability, security and maintainability for acceptance by stakeholders.
5. Collaborate with other architects to define the right delivery approach, including processes, methods, tooling, and partners to define and agree on the service design.
6. Identify risks and continuous improvement opportunities for technical solutions through utilization expert business knowledge.
7. Continuously monitor the industry and evaluate new or emerging technologies used by internal teams to ensure they meet FedEx technological standards.
8. Coach and mentor other IT architects to develop their skills and expertise.
Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems or equivalent formal training. TOGAF certification and SAFe Agile certification strongly preferred
Experience: Six to seven (6-7) years equivalent work experience in information technology or engineering environment with a direct responsibility for strategy formulation and solution/technical architecture, as well as designing, architecting, developing, implementing, and monitoring efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Fluency in English
• Ac…
