Application Architect

Deloitte & Touche USA LLP is the U.S. member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and services are provided by its subsidiaries, including Deloitte & Touche LLP, Deloitte Consulting LLP, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP and Deloitte Tax LLP. Deloitte & Touche USA LLP’s subsidiaries are among the nation’s leading professional services firms, providing audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services through nearly 30,000 people in more than 80 cities. Known as employers of choice for innovative human resources programs, they are dedicated to helping their clients and people excel.PRIMARY DUTIES: 
Responsible for (1) creating, documenting, and communicating application architectures for various applications; (2) leading technical design sessions; (3) ensuring that architecture and coding standards are followed; (4) architecting/designing applications for high performance and scalability in a distributed, multi-tier, cross-platform  environments.
PRIMARY
QUALIFICATIONS:
 
Required Experience -
7+ years in web and distributed application development; 3-5 years in application architecture, data architecture, and technical design experience; 3+ years day-to-day experience in C#/.NET
Knowledge of unified modeling language (UML) and Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Understanding of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and its relation to, and difference from, OOD
Understanding of architecture-based SDLC and its deliverables; 4+1 Architecture Views
Experience in data modeling techniques and knowledge and applicability of various normal forms
Demonstrated experience and knowledge of multi-tier architectures
 
Technical Leadership - This role will provide technical architecture project leadership on various enterprise applications.  The individual must be a passionate, delivery-oriented technical leader, having extensive experience in architecting, designing, and developing web-based and web-enabled business applications.  Must possess
hands-on experience in designing and building n-tier architectures, creating benchmark tests, designing for scalability and performance, and designing/integrating large-scale systems.  The individual must have excellent presentation and technical writing skills.  
 
Architecture Documentation - Since this role will be responsible for creating, documenting, and communicating application architectures, the candidate must be experienced in following architecture deliverables: 1) conceptual architecture (solution, layers, subsystems), 2) logical architecture (business entities, data flows), 3) process architecture (functional verticals, processes, services), 4) implementation architecture (components, application frameworks, technologies), 5) deployment architecture (infrastructure diagrams, network and hardware components, ports, protocols).
 
Technologies - Extensive technology experience with an emphasis on Microsoft frameworks: DNA and .NET.  Extensive knowledge of technical design patterns.
Understanding of Service-Oriented and Object-Oriented development and architectures, their principles and relevant implementation using: DCOM, .NET Remoting, and Web Services.   Extensive and solid experience with various RDBMS (MS SQL Server, DB2, Oracle).  Can speak to all aspects of the RDBMS (Data Modeling, DDL, ANSI SQL, stored procs, functions, remote procedures, triggers, import/export, backup/recovery).  Clear evidence of XML experience.  Should be able to describe how XML was used in prior application architecture (e.g. presentation, transformation, persistence, communication, transport).  Predominate tools and languages should include: VB, ASP, COM, DCOM, MTS/COM+, C#, ASP.NET, Web Services.  Wide range of Operating Systems experience: NT, W2000, XP/W2003, Unix, Linux, AS/400, OS/390, etc.Deloitte & Touche USA LLP and its subsidiaries ("the Deloitte US Firms") are equal opportunity employers.Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, a Swiss Verein, its member
firms and their respective subsidiaries and affiliates. As a Swiss Verein (association), neither Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu nor any of its member firms has any liability for each other’s acts or omissions. Each of the member firms is a separate and independent legal entity operating under the names “Deloitte,” “Deloitte & Touche,” “Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu,” or other related names. Services are provided by the member firms or their subsidiaries or affiliates and not by the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Verein.
Deloitte & Touche USA LLP is the U.S. member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. In the U.S., services are provided by the subsidiaries of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP (Deloitte & Touche LLP, Deloitte Consulting LLP, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, Deloitte Tax LLP and their subsidiaries), and not by Deloitte & Touche USA LLP.
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