Delivery Architect

Company: JM Family
Location: Deerfield Beach
Posted on: March 16, 2023

Job Description:

About JM Family Enterprises, Inc. JM Family Enterprises, Inc. was founded by automotive legend, Jim Moran in 1968. It is a privately held company with $18 billion in revenue and more than 5,000 associates. Rooted in automotive and united in its strong culture and core values, JM Family is in the business of helping other businesses succeed. As a long-term partner, it is invested in its companies, associates and its communities. Driven by exceptional performance, current subsidiaries are in the automotive, business services, financial services and franchising. Its family of companies includes: Southeast Toyota Distributors, the world's largest independent distributor of Toyota vehicles; JM&A Group, a company committed to improving automotive dealers' performance by offering Finance & Insurance products and services, dealership training and consulting; World Omni Financial Corp. (dba Southeast Toyota Finance), a captive financial services company driven to delivering an exceptional dealership and customer experience for Toyota customers in the Southeast; JM Lexus, one of South Florida's leading Lexus dealers; Home Franchise Concepts -, a multi-brand franchise network consisting of Budget Blinds -, Tailored Living - featuring PremierGarage -, Concrete Craft -, AdvantaClean -, Kitchen Tune-Up -, Bath Tune-Up -, Two Maids - and Aussie Pet Mobile -, Futura Title & Escrow, a family of leading independent title and escrow companies which includes Alliance Title & Escrow, AmeriTitle, Pacific Alliance Title, Kittitas Title and Escrow, and Rollease Acmeda, a leading specialty distributor of window covering systems.JM Family has earned various awards for its culture, products and services, including 24 consecutive years on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For list. Interact with JM Family on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.This role will be responsible for providing technical leadership in the design, documentation, and review of technology solutions that meet the business and IT needs of the organization. This individual will also be accountable for providing technical leadership for projects and will be accountable for the end-to-end solution and delivery. Individual will be the focal and escalation point for all -technical delivery issues on these efforts. This individual will be assigned to projects in SET to provide leadership and be the primary accountable person for the design and delivery of the solution for the business initiative.This role drives collaboration with stakeholders including ITS teams, technology partners, business customers, and vendors to ensure that the participants are effectively communicating and aligned on technical deliverables. In addition, role will not have direct reports but does lead cross-functional technical resources to deliver on desired outcomes.Candidate must be able to work onsite at our corporate offices in Deerfield or Jacksonville, Florida in a hybrid onsite / offsite model.The ideal candidate must be willing to re-locate to South Florida and/or be willing to travel for key meetings / program engagement.Architectural Responsibilities: - Responsible for the architectural design (Solution and Data) and ensures compliance of solutions to Enterprise Architecture Principles and Technology Architecture Patterns. - Develops tactical plans to execute strategy - Accountable for technical delivery for assigned projects (Solution and Data). - Leverage the current and approved technology portfolio, enterprise architectural standards, and established patterns to create solution and data designs that deliver the required business capabilities. - Collaborate with other Architects, Developers, and Engineers to create synergies and drive technology reuse within and across projects. - Collaborate with Development Managers, IT & Business Directors and IT & Business VPs to help gain consensus and drive decisions required for projects and/or initiatives. - Approval of detailed technical designs and Vendor technical designs too Ensure the adherence to enterprise standardso Reduce complexityo Increase reusability - Drives down costs and complexity by using enterprise standards - Designs solutions that meet the best interest of multiple stakeholders including those of the project and enterprise level - Designs solutions that leverage enterprise tools and have reusable components and services - Work with business users to reduce technical complexity introduced by business requirements - Ensure designs meet business requirements - Provide recommendations that produce efficiencies in technology support costs and improve performance while meeting customer requirements. - Provide direction and mentoring to less experienced associates. - Translate highly technical problems in a manner that can be understood in business terms to a variety of audiences including project managers and business executives. - Present recommendations and solutions clearly and concisely and can focus on key points to portray the intended message or purpose. - Driving desired outcomes and decisions through trust and influence.Technical Leadership Responsibilities: - Acts as the lead Technology Services representative in the delivery of technology solutions - Provide overall technical leadership and directs teams in the delivery of technology solutions. - Partner with Project Managers, Portfolio Managers, and technical stakeholders to deliver on the following responsibilities for end-to-end technical delivery. - Partner with PM to ensure a successful release to production including transition activitieso Ensure the realization of the solution architecture, making sure it is operable & cost-effectiveo Steer and drives progress on all technical delivery aspectso Help identify all required roles and technology resourceso Ensure the assembly of the required technical teamso Steer identification of technical tasks and milestoneso Ensure technical requirements are delivered with quality and completenesso Drive creation of financial estimates for all phases including TCOo Partner with PM to ensure a successful release to production including transition activities - Assess risks, anticipates bottlenecks, provides escalation management, and collaborates to drive toward mutually beneficial outcomes - Drive to effectively resolve and provide awareness for technical issues and risks - Manage the partner relationship to ensure delivery of technical work done by 3rd party partners or vendors. - Provide feedback on the performance of internal technical team members to their leadersMust have:o Experience in implementing security solutions like:- B2B Azure implementation- Azure Security for authentication- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) implementation- Fundamentals of Azure AD - SAML Federationo Broad understanding of technology and business operations and provide holistic solutions to business problems or requirementso Extensive experience and knowledge of software design, application integration, and data integrationo Solid experience in designing and implementing Canonical data models, SOA, messaging, and transformation patternso Extensive knowledge in architectural patterns utilized for micro-services, event driven architecture and domain driven architectureo Good understanding of the complexities of networks, database, systems, security practices, and other infrastructure components in an IT environmento Understanding of the complexities of DevOps and its best practices as it relates to software and integration designo Understanding of IT security and governance best practices as it relates to software and infrastructure design.o Understanding of security methods such as ADFS, SAML or OAuth.o Knowledge of industry best practices for software architecture.o Bachelor's degree & at least 15 years of equivalent professional experience.o Strong leadership and positive influencing skills.o Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.o Must demonstrate the ability to present complex technical information, in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences, in large and small groups.o Strong organization, facilitation, analytical and deductive reasoning skills. Capable of thinking through problems systematically and logically to produce solutions.o Strong customer service orientation.o Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.Nice to have:o Experience in SharePoint solutions.o Knowledge of ITIL processes and standards.o TOGAF certificationo Experience in mobile development and/or designo Automotive, distribution and/or warehousing experience.o Extensive experience in data integration practices beyond ETL or ELT#LI-AM1#li-hybrid

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