Principal Architect-Solutions Architect

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Exciting opportunities exist within the Verizon Business Technology Solutions organization. As a Principal Solutions Architect, you will be an integral part of a talented team collaborating with our clients on their Digital Transformation. The Strategic Innovation Group is an in-house strategy consulting group responsible for creating and pursuing strategies that can impact top and bottom-line financial results. Applying analytical rigor, creativity, and structured problem-solving, the Strategic Innovation Group engages with business leaders across all functions in strategic problem-solving to address critical business challenges. As change agents, the Strategic Innovation Group is responsible for formulating these strategies and engaging cross-functional teams in their pursuit and execution.

You will seek to build deep, consultative technical relationships with partner organizations, effectively becoming a trusted adviser. The Principal Architect role is ideally positioned to understand the high-level business objectives and match these to possible solutions to satisfy business and technical requirements.

• An integral part of a team dedicated to transforming our Technology Solutions services portfolio utilizing ServiceNow in innovation, strategy, and product and process automation and improvement.

• Champion integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to implement a complete solution using best practices successfully.

• Accelerate our organizational culture around DevOps, inner-sourcing, Agile, Design Thinking, and improved collaboration.

• Lead research efforts to identify, analyze, evaluate, and champion strategies and initiatives to deliver significant top and bottom-line growth.

• Independently lead cross-functional leadership teams to address and resolve key strategic challenges and develop multi-year strategic visions and roadmaps.

• Develop individual skill sets and expand product knowledge to maximize value and deliver quality services to our clients and business partners. This includes attaining designated certification requirements, attending product-specific training, reviewing technical literature, and obtaining hands-on experience.

• Responsible for providing thought leadership and structure for ambiguous business problems and working with peer team members and stakeholders across all levels and functions to translate strategies into specific, results-driven initiatives.

What we're looking for...

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or four or more years of work experience.

• Six or more years of experience as a technical Solution Architect in an IT infrastructure environment or equivalent experience in a Client-facing or IT staff role (including working as a member of a professional services or IT engineering team).

• Four or more years of hands-on experience developing within the ServiceNow platform.

• Understanding and experience with the broader ServiceNow ecosystem, including capabilities, platforms, and integrations.

• Experience effectively communicating and discussing complex business and technical topics to all levels of the organization.

• Strong competency in generating solution documentation for internal stakeholders and clients through diagrams, slides, documents, and spreadsheets.

• Experience architecting and developing software or infrastructure for scalable, distributed systems.

• Experience with broad technology concepts, including software-defined networking, programming languages (HTML, Java, Python), APIs, information security, and collaboration tools.

• Experience in and understanding of data and information security - especially as it relates to issues within businesses.

• Ability to quickly learn, understand, and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the cloud, SDN, IoT, and IT technology space.

• Ability to strategically align project outcomes to broader business goals and champion support for broader organizational decisions.

• Gathered industry knowledge and experience in three areas: IT Service Management, IT infrastructure and systems security, cloud or network systems management, and business continuity.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• MA/MS degree in engineering or computer science.

• Experience running multiple projects or deals under tight timelines.

• Security, architecture, and industry certifications include AWS Solution Architect, Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK), ServiceNow Certified System Administrator, SAFe, OEM certifications, ITIL Foundations, etc.

• Hands-on experience. It could be implementing or designing two or more process areas: ITIL Operations Framework, SAFe Agile, Project and Portfolio Management, or Digital Transformation strategies.

• Experience evaluating prospective IT infrastructure and delivering the appropriate evaluation, ROI, savings, proposed operational evolution, and associated process management

• If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

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