This job was posted by https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov : For more information, please see: https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov/jobs/12395095 Heidrick & Struggles (Nasdaq: HSII) is a premier provider of global leadership advisory and on-demand talent solutions, serving the senior-level talent and consulting needs of the world\'s top organizations. In our role as trusted leadership advisors, we partner with our clients to develop future-ready leaders and organizations, bringing together our services and offerings in executive search, diversity and inclusion, leadership assessment and development, organization and team acceleration, culture shaping and on-demand, independent talent solutions. Heidrick & Struggles pioneered the profession of executive search more than 70 years ago. Today, the firm provides integrated talent and human capital solutions to help our clients change the world, one leadership team at a time.

Additional information on the firm can be found at www.heidrick.com.

Job Description:

Heidrick Digital, Application Architect

Who We Are

Heidrick & Struggles (Nasdaq: HSII) is a premier provider of global leadership advisory and on-demand talent solutions, serving the senior-level talent and consulting needs of the world\'s top organizations. In our role as trusted leadership advisors, we partner with our clients to develop future-ready leaders and organizations, bringing together our services and offerings in executive search, diversity and inclusion, leadership assessment and development, organization and team acceleration, culture shaping and on-demand, independent talent solutions. Heidrick & Struggles pioneered the profession of executive search more than 70 years ago. Today, the firm provides integrated talent and human capital solutions to help our clients change the world, one leadership team at a time.

Additional information on the firm can be found at www.heidrick.com.

The Role

By leveraging our industry expertise and data science, we help our clients to accelerate their performance in an ever-evolving marketplace. To support and execute our technology enabled business strategy, we are currently seeking an Application Architect.

The Application Architect will be responsible for providing in-depth solution architecture support for engineering teams to ensure technical roadmap alignment. The Application Architect will help align business solutions and product value delivery to our enterprise strategies, technology roadmap, and digital transformation.

Role

Responsibilities

• Create and manage architectural blueprints that describe the strategy, business outcomes, capabilities, services, processes, information, and data that present the vision, goals, and strategic objectives.
• Collaborate and work closely with multiple teams consisting of Engineering, Product Management, Research and Corporate IT teams, and external subcontractors and vendors to identify, select, and implement technology solutions that will meet business needs.
• Define and refine methodology and standards for setup, design and implementation of the application or technology to meet the needs of the business and IT customers.
• Analyze and evaluate emerging technologies and collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and development team leads to recommend solutions for improvement.
• Generate detailed system requirements with cost projections, cost benefit analysis and ROI.
• Develop and drive the standards, development processes, systems architecture, and design patterns to support technical and business solutions.
• Guide and mentor agile teams on architecture, design, and integration of business software across multiple product platforms while making sure all application software is built with Performance and Scalability in mind.
• Review current application software and processes to help mitigate technical debt and streamline processes to be more efficient and effective.
• Evaluate technology trends like emerging standards for fresh technology opportunities. Conduct tests and POCs which could be used and applied in application development.
• Develops solutions for the engineering team to deliver software with excellent quality and speed. Involved in designing and developing scaling strategies, automation scripts, and solutions to implement, streamline, and execute the software.
• Work closely with various business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to drive the execution of multiple business plans & technologies.
• Assist removing technical obstacles, help enhance team processes, handle resource issues, and interact with team members to assure sprint iteration and product release is successfully delivered.
• Provide support for the completion of RFPs to support client sales and onboarding.
• Mentor less experienced staff.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

15+ years of Application Software Development Experience.

8+ years solutions architecture, design, system integration, implementation, and deployment in cloud technologies.

10 years\' experience of SQL and ERD with relational