Associate IT Architect

ChenMed; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

ChenMed in United States, New York, Town of Florida is seeking an Associate IT Architect to support key IT projects and align them with ChenMed's overall architecture strategy. This role includes analyzing data to understand business needs and addressing security requirements.

The successful candidate will perform architecture tasks, design implementations, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure scalable solutions and adherence to best practices.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience implementing technical solutions.
• Ability to work largely self-directed and provide direction to teams.

Responsibilities

• Provides design services and coordinates requirements.
• Implements designs by writing scripts and configuring systems.
• Partners with teams to coach and mentor staff.

Skills

General knowledge of systems, network and security architecture

Understanding of architectural solutions

Ability to influence and recommend actions

Job description

The Associate IT Architect provides targeted support to key IT projects and also helps them align with overall ChenMed architecture direction and strategy. The incumbent in this role supports architecture strategy delivery through current system analysis, data profiling, data collection, etc. He/She analyzes data to validate business needs, understand gaps, quality concerns, etc. The Associate IT Architect is instrumental in meeting the ever‑changing security needs of the organization and is expected to help support other architecture roles such as systems, network and security.

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provides design services, ensuring adherence to departmental policies and procedures; coordinates and defines requirements (i.e., design, configure, install, etc.).
• Performs architecture and engineering tasks of various complexities.
• Coordinates and participates in assigned projects, following the project from beginning to end, ensuring that the project continually supports the attainment of corporate goals and is completed in a timely, accurate, and quality manner.
• Implements designs by writing scripts, configuring systems, servers, cloud resources, including testing, and debugging.
• Analyzes network, application and system requirements and produces efficient, secure, reliable, and cost-effective designs.
• Utilizes best practices for application engineering, component reuse, architecture design and technical standards, while maintaining an awareness of new/emerging technologies and their potential application to existing service offerings.
• Monitors trends in documented incidents and determines appropriate actions necessary to eliminate future occurrences and improve customer service levels in an appropriate time frame.
• Applies architecture and engineering theories, methods and techniques to solve both process and technical challenges.
• Partners with engineering and operations teams to coach, mentor and train staff on new technologies. Assists with the implementation of new technologies/designs as needed.
• Works with cross‑functional teams across the development organization to ensure end‑to‑end technical and business viability.
• Creates solutions that answer current business needs and are scalable for future requests.
• Collaborates with the Chief and Data architects to establish a consistent and effective application development environment.
• Performs capacity analysis and planning of holistic enterprise datasets. Troubleshoots escalated issues across the entire stack: server, network, application, database, hardware.
• Researches opportunities to improve the effectiveness of applications and systems.
• Maintains, communicates and enforces guidelines for industry recognized best practices of all aspects of data and application development efforts.
• Performs other duties as assigned and modified at manager’s discretion.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• General knowledge of systems, network and security architecture technical domains.
• Understanding of architectural solutions to address functional and non‑functional requirements is critical, as is hands‑on experience implementing technical solutions.
• Understands that the architectural vision for the enterprise transcends the scope of individual project or effort.
• Ability to influence and recommend course of action to team members and management.
• Largely self‑directed. May provide direction to individuals or small teams.