Lead the long range planning for the structure and interaction of the enterprise’s major types/sources of data, information needs, and business processes/strategy.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Ability to apply basic computer concepts, theories, principles and methods to projects, business problems, issues, and/or questions
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Time management and prioritization skills
• Independent worker but also able to collaborate with others
• Proactive, great attention to detail, results-oriented problem solver
• Ability to balance long term goals against immediate concerns in the areas of code maintainability, developer productivity and the customer experience
• Thinking outside the box, willingness to battle for good ideas, willingness to collaborate with team members
• Passion for innovation and continuous learning
• Project management, system analysis and design experience is helpful.
• Professional certification like TOGAF, Archimate or equivalent enterprise architecture certifications is highly desirable

MINIMUM EDUCATION

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems and/or equivalent formal training.

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE

Five (5) years equivalent work experience in information technology or engineering environment.

• Work with initiative owners, business architects and domain architects to analyze and decompose the initiative request into workable epics aligned with enterprise strategic business and technical goals.
• Part of a central architecture organization for largest portfolio at FedEx supporting systems for all global operations. Architect key initiatives for the organization to drive business value.
• Responsible for providing options as part of architecture recommendation
• Translate business needs into conceptual architecture (current and target state) and defining solutions to problems through application of information technology
• Facilitate the establishment and implementation of standards / guidelines for architecture deliverables
• Develop/document the framework for integration/implementation for changes to architectural standards
• Determine architecture solutions that meet performance, scalability, reliability and security needs
• Work with other architects across the enterprise to provide enterprise business solutions
• Provide technical guidance to project team
• Coach the development of Jr. IT architects
• Experience with Enterprise Architecture tools like LeanIX, Sparx EA
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, including microservices, event-driven, and serverless patterns
• Deep knowledge of Azure cloud platform and its offerings, such as Azure Functions, Azure App Service, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Cosmos DB
• Expertise in common event processing stack like Kafka, Flink etc.
• Experience in common UI/UX frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue.js
• Proficient in programming languages like Java, Golang or Python
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines (Git, Azure DevOps)
• Experience with web service development (REST, GraphQL)
• Understanding of data modeling, database design, and query optimization
• Experience with serverless design and low-code platforms
• Knowledge of DevOps tools and processes
• Experience with cloud security best practices