Solutions Architect I At World Vision

World Vision International

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian, development and advocacy organisation devoted to improving the lives of children, families and their communities around the world. Our over 34,000 staff members working in nearly 100 countries are united in helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Through our work, every 60 seconds … a family gets water … a hungry child is fed … a family receives the tools to overcome poverty.

Here’s where you come in:

As the Solutions Architect I, you are expected to facilitate the development of the right future-state architecture and ensure its effective adoption. You will provide overall direction, guidance and definition of architecture programs that effectively support business strategies. You will also advocate and support the enterprise’s IT strategies, identify and analyze enterprise business drivers, analyze the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, recommend solutions for improvement and develop strategies aligning IT to the business. You must have significant business knowledge and have one or more areas of technical expertise in which they concentrate. These technical areas may include network, security, applications and systems software, data and Internet.

Requirements include:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Systems Analysis or a related field. Or equivalent work experience.
• Typically has 7- 8 years of experience in multiple IT areas with 2 – 3 years of relevant domain experience (data, network, application, systems, etc.)
• Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally, as necessary.
• Effective in written and verbal communication in English.
• Requires advanced to expert level knowledge and understanding of architecture, application design, systems engineering and integration.
• Prior experience working with API driven architecture and integration stacks (Mulesoft, TIBCO, etc.) preferred but not required.