Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect - Applications

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The Operations Strategic Capabilities Unit plays a fundamental role in enabling efficient business and program execution - from technologies and investments to supply chain, manufacturing and test operations, facilities management, and information technology services.
Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect - Applications
Join us in guiding and building the future state of the Ball Aerospace enterprise IT environment! In this highly visible and influential position, the Enterprise Solutions Architect defines and guides the current and future state enterprise application and integration portfolio, encompassing all Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (BATC) enterprise systems. We are looking for a motivated, passionate professional with business and technical savvy to connect business and IT to achieve mutually beneficial, successful outcomes. As a member of the Enterprise Architecture and Innovation team, this role ensures IT efforts are aligned in building a future state that realizes required business capabilities while ensuring a supportable, documented, and efficient application environment geared towards our long-term goals and cloud ambitions.
What You'll Do:

• Understand, catalog, document the overall application portfolio, IT and business priorities and success measures. Build and evangelize a roadmap to modernize and streamline the portfolio to meet evolving business needs.
• Develop business relationships to understand internal business customer requirements, goals and constraints.
• Utilize "Business Architecture" principles to define and map required business capabilities to applications and systems. Build a Business Capability map to drive decision making based on investment goals, business need, cloud readiness, risk, and other data-driven factors.
• Create 1-5 year technology and application Roadmaps to align business and customer needs with software and technology trends. The Roadmaps will include factors like application upgrades, application rationalization, cloud adoption, and industry technology trends.
• Lead creation of a Software (both on premises and SaaS) governance process.
• Define strategies for leveraging cloud platforms in the application portfolio.
• Assist in creation of governance practices, standards, and strategies, including Cloud Security Audits, Mobile Strategies, Vendor Assessments, Technology Readiness, Roadmaps, Business Capability Maps, and Solution Architectural Diagrams.
• Develop and demonstrate architecture subject matter expertise focused on BATC Engineering and Business system capabilities.
• Ensure governance oversight via assessment of business requirements, solution alternatives, designs, and standards compliance through project design reviews.
• Participate in innovation management activities: research, suggest, evaluate, rank, oversee proof-of-concept activities, and transfer knowledge of appropriate new technologies into the broader IT environment.
• Work with software, database, and systems architects to align detailed technology-based standards to higher-level enterprise standards and philosophies.
• Train, guide and mentor other IT staff in adapting IT standards, best practices to provide superior quality solutions for business requirements. Infuse architectural concepts like reusability, standards-based, configuration driven, scalable and manageable solutions.
• Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships within the department, the Strategic Business Units, Strategic Capabilities Units and the Company. Interact appropriately with others in order to maintain a positive and productive work environment.
• Perform other duties as necessary.

What You'll Need:

• Related Bachelor's and 8 or more years of related experience; or HS Diploma and 14 or more years of related experience.
• Each higher-level degree, i.e., Associate's, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree or Ph.D., may substitute for additional years of experience.
• Related certifications may count towards years of related experience.
• Related technical experience may be considered in lieu of education. Degree must be from a university, college, or school which is accredited by an agency recognized by the US Secretary of Education, US Department of Education.
• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related technical field is preferred.
• Experience in roles such as software development, database development, solutions architecture, and/or enterprise architecture.
• Experience and understanding in governing large-scale application portfolios in enterprise-wide environments.
• Understanding of layers of multi-tier enterprise application systems, including SQL databases, web application servers, middleware, development languages (C#, Java).
• Understanding of Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, etc.).
• Understanding of application lifecycle management (ALM), software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies, Agile, Waterfall, SCRUM, etc., and associated relevant toolsets such as software change management, version control, etc.
• Understanding of application integration concepts and techniques, such as Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), API management, Webservices, etc.
• Proven ability to work independently and on own initiative.
• Excellent communication skills are crucial, as well as ability to think clearly & analyze quantitatively.
• Detail oriented, and ability to meet, and exceed, quality standards.
• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills with an ability to determine an appropriate level of detail given project milestones.
• Excellent planning, organizational, communication and time management skills.
• Ability to manage and execute projects with a strong bias for action; ability to effectively prioritize projects and meet aggressive deadlines.
• Ability to juggle many tasks and projects simultaneously in a fast-moving environment and must be a self-starter who is excited and curious about improving the business.

Hybrid Work Environment: This position may be performed working from both the office and another location, while typically requiring working in the office less than 3 days per work week. Travel and local commute between Ball campuses and other possible non-Ball locations may be required.
Working Conditions:

• Ball Aerospace is a drug-free workplace, which is imperative to the health and safety of all employees and is required as a condition of receiving contracts from federal agencies. Please remember that regardless of the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and other states, possession and use continues to be illegal under the federal Controlled Substances Act. This includes the use of some CBD products. A post-offer, pre-employment drug test is a condition of employment.
• Work is performed in an office environment, laboratory, cleanroom, or production floor.

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A current DoD clearance and/or SCI access with Polygraph is not required to be eligible for this position, however applicant must be willing and eligible for submission within 60-90 days after an offer is accepted and must be able to maintain the applicable clearance/access. By applying to this position, you are agreeing to complete a National Security Clearance Pre-Screen Questionnaire to evaluate your general ability to obtain the required security clearance or government customer access associated with this position.
Relocation for this position is available.
Compensation & Benefits:

• HIRING SALARY RANGE: $121,500 - $167,500 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.)
• This position includes a competitive benefits package. For details, copy and paste https://bit.ly/3pNSnxv into your browser or visit our careers site.

US CITIZENSHIP IS REQUIRED
Ball Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
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