Architect Senior Specialist #1065619

Fasttek; Dearborn (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and Dental

Vision

PTO Program

Long Term Disability

Life Insurance

401(k) with immediate vesting and 3%+

Referral program

Recognition culture

Job summary

FastTek Global is seeking a Senior Architect Specialist to translate business capabilities into proven architecture concepts and models. The role drives governance, standards, and integration across enterprise programs, with a focus on secure, scalable, and resilient solutions.

You will lead architecture discussions, set direction for future state architectures, and guide projects toward strategic outcomes while ensuring alignment with security and technology roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Senior Architect with extensive IT architecture experience and governance responsibilities.
• Experience in leading security architecture, enterprise integration and domain-wide standards.

Responsibilities

• Translate business capabilities into defined architecture concepts and models.
• Visualize architecture concepts and communicate strategies to sponsors and product lines.
• Facilitate governance processes and ensure alignment with IT roadmaps and standards.
• Lead security architecture initiatives including Zero Trust and secure AI-enabled environments.
• Define and drive architecture direction, patterns, and development frameworks.

Skills

Cyber Security

Application Solutions

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Dearborn, Michigan Architect Senior Specialist #1065619

Job Description:

Employees in this job function are responsible for translating desired business capabilities into solution concepts and models and their requirements (functional and technical)
Design strategies, technology patterns and service structures.

• Accountable for architecture and information management guidance and governance processes.
• Responsible for enterprise capability integration by describing and evaluating the opportunities for integration and alignment of information and process flows, selecting appropriate implementation strategies, and defining technology mechanisms required. (Applies to: enterprise level, portfolio level.)
• Compiles, develops and aligns architectural models of current and proposed capabilities and solutions across the enterprise to support strategy and investment decisions, portfolio management, program and project management, solution and service design and development and service management. (Applies to: enterprise level, portfolio level, program/project level, technology level.)
• Drives information integration, information standards and information management through capability and value analysis and assessment. (Applies to: enterprise level, portfolio level, program/project level.)
• Delivers architecture artefacts (business, information, data, process, solution, application, service, technology, infrastructure architectures) to solution, service and technology delivery initiatives, programs and projects.
• Sets architecture and design direction (technologies, patterns, design principles, development frameworks) in cooperation with project management and system design/development. (Applies to: program/project level.)

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides direction and support to project teams by translating business capabilities into well-defined
• Projects/programs with clear objectives and deliverables.
• Visualizes and communicates architecture concepts, principles, strategies, and models for programs, initiatives, and domains.
• Facilitates architecture discussions with cross-functional business sponsors and product lines to ensure alignment.
• Participates as a member or facilitator in relevant business/IT governance processes.
• Ensures alignment between architecture projects and standards and related IT projects and plans by working with appropriate IT and business management.
• Develops recommendations which will improve the business value of IT projects and plans.
• Sets direction and approves future state architecture standards, guidelines, blueprints, and roadmaps for/across business functions.
• Drives architecture-related research to further mature architecture standards, guidelines, blueprints, and roadmaps.
• Directs and approves innovations and/or prototypes based on research and approves recommendations on architecture, tools, methodologies, and/or processes.
• Facilitates architecture governance and ensures adherence to architecture standards.
• Obtains buy-in for architecture standards, guidelines, blueprints, and roadmaps from appropriate business and IT leaders.
• Promotes benefits and value of architecture and architecture management to the business and IT senior management.
• Provides guidance on strategy and planning in support of overall prioritization and portfolio planning.

Skills Required:

Cyber Security, Application Solutions

• Cybersecurity: Lead enterprise security architecture that advances Zero Trust, translating cyber risks and policy into practical controls for cloud, hybrid, and agentic AI environments.
• Application Solutions: Shape secure, scalable, and resilient application architectures that enable modernization and agentic capabilities through reusable patterns, an AI-native SDLC, and verified business outcomes.

Experience Required:

• Senior Specialist Exp.: 10+ years in IT;
• 7+ years in concentration

Education Required:

• Bachelor's Degree

Additional Information:

• Lead high-impact security designs for identity, workload and API access, sensitive data, secure delivery, and operational resilience.
• Help define an AI-native software delivery lifecycle that embeds security requirements, guardrails, and verification into normal engineering workflows.
• Architect production agentic systems with scoped permissions, secure tool access, human oversight, evaluation, monitoring, and containment.
• Translate security policy into reusable reference architectures, engineering patterns, and automated controls that teams can adopt.
• Use threat modeling and implementation evidence to identify material risks, guide remediation, and inform architecture decisions.

Additional Info:

At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra. We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.

We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashionedhard work for 24 years!

FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused.

We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.

Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match

Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.

FastTek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023!

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