Lead Applications Architect

Little Caesars Pizza•Detroit, MI

1d•Remote

About The Position

In this role, you will be responsible for the design, development, deployment, and support of Little Caesars Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and infrastructure layer. You will have complete responsibility for mission critical application infrastructure, including design, implementation, and execution. This position is part of the Enterprise Technology team and involved in current and future infrastructure decisions to support Little Caesars strategic initiatives. You will also be responsible for the selection of technologies, implementation, standard enforcement, support, and management. You will design, negotiate and ensure compliance to service level agreements (SLAs) inclusive of all infrastructure vendors.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related discipline. Equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of formal degree.
Minimum of five (5) years in Enterprise Applications and Architecture, Enterprise Integration (EAI), Web services, messaging, middleware, BPM, Single Sign On and various authentication protocols.
Minimum 2 years’ experience managing a team
Experience in SOAP, JMS and architecting applications using any of the following: MQ, Tibco, Biztalk, Mulesoft, Boomi and opensource frameworks.
Experience in SQL, ERP Oracle Cloud Fusion, ERP Workday Cloud, .NET, REST architecture and Tiered Web applications.
Previous experience with Message Oriented Middleware, Message Queues, Service Discovery and Service Orchestration Webservice Design, Enterprise Service Bus, Enterprise Integration Patterns
Broad knowledge of SOA products and offerings.
Previous experience with vendor management, service level agreements, contracts and metrics and the ability to take corrective action when needed.
Effective verbal, written and presentation skills with the ability to communicate technical information to a non-technical audience.
Evidence of ability to gain consensus among various providers and clients when addressing architecture issues and to facilitate architectural/technical discussions.
Demonstrated ability to conduct research, draw conclusions and make sound business-oriented recommendations.
Evidence of deep understanding of technology with an affinity for technological advancements and how they are applied to a business environment.
Ability to articulate on-going pursuit of technical knowledge and experience.
Evidence of effective time management skills, including managing multiple time-sensitive projects.

Nice To Haves

Eight (8) years or more of relevant experience in Enterprise Applications and Architecture.
Experience with rules engines and event driven architecture.

Responsibilities

Translate business requirements into technical specifications leveraging SOA concepts and works directly with development groups with initial design and oversee the implementation of the design.
Conduct cost benefit analysis to determine the feasibility of various design approaches and coordinate with application developers, data architects, application architects and managers to ensure that required features are delivered.
Define application standards and specifications and participates in design reviews and proactively escalates issues for resolution while understanding the major impacts to technical and business-related areas.
Create technical designs that can be deployed and operated by service provider partners and internal resources.
Leads and develops a team of technical architects, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and ongoing capability development.
Develop and manage relationships with existing and future key service providers.
Direct implementation of Little Caesar middleware designs and: Maintain SLAs with service providers; Ensure understanding of client requirements regarding middleware services and communicate operations and communicate effectively regarding middleware operations & environment changes.
Understand key service provider partner technology roadmaps and direction.
Develop understanding of client requirements regarding Design services and solutions based on client feedback and a broad understanding of client needs
Ensure compliance to all SLA’s and initiates actions when contract compliance is not being met.
Collaborate with the LCE IT leadership, for software and hardware design and implementation and business documentation and support and to allocate resources for implementation and deployment of applications.
Ensure the security of data within the Little Caesar infrastructure.
Manage and monitor the infrastructure budget.