Enterprise Architect (DT) - Japan

STAND 8 is a global leader providing end-to-end IT Solutions. We solve business problems through PEOPLE, PROCESS, and TECHNOLOGY and are looking for individuals to help us scale software projects designed to change the world!
www.stand8.io
As the Enterprise Architect, you will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing end-to-end enterprise solutions that align with our business goals and IT strategy. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of enterprise architecture, technology trends, and business processes. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful delivery of scalable and efficient solutions.
The Enterprise Architect will have to work cross functionally with teams including Product Owners, Data Architects, Delivery Teams, IT Security, DevOps, Infrastructure Teams and Agile Scrum Masters and others in the organization to succeed. Projects include web applications, native mobile applications, microservices, DevOps, and platform design. This architect will have the opportunity to work on international enterprise multi park solutions.
Roles and responsibilities
Solution Design - Where applicable, architect, design/develop, and oversee implementation of end-to-end integrated solution. Be a subject matter expert for development teams as part of implementation. Document and maintain the organizations existing solutions architecture and technology portfolio; make recommendations for improvements and/or alternatives. Review new and existing solutions design projects and procurement or outsourcing plans for compliance with standards and architectural plans. Interface and coordinate tasks with internal and external technical resources. Collaborate with Project Managers, vendors and IT stakeholders to provide estimates and develop overall implementation plan for installation, customization, and integration efforts. Model business and systems processes based on findings through use case scenarios, sequence diagrams, swaggers, workflow diagrams, and data models.
Requirements
* Have lead or participated in major end-to-end business process re-engineering or business transformation initiatives.
* Demonstrated ability to produce requirement artifacts: Business Requirements, Functional Specifications, data flow diagrams, UML modeling techniques include sequence, component, deployment and domain models.
* A background in software development with ability to code at some level and knowledge of APIs and SDKs.
* Ability to use both Japanese and English in business.
Qualifications
* Hands-on experience with business requirements gathering/analysis.
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into practical applications and operational solutions.
* Having a technical architecture background. You understand at a high-level network design, routers, switches, firewalls, BGP, caching, SANs, servers, and operating systems form a part of the solution stack.
* Extensive experience in developing strategic systems architecture plans.
* Proven experience in system and network design and development.
* Strong understanding of software evaluation and information processing principles and practices.
* Solid grounding in core enterprise applications.
* Proven project planning and management experience.
* Good knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws.
* Demonstrable experience in solution architecture and integration solution design.
* Believes in a continuous improvement approach and aptitude to initiate actions for it.
* Excellence in visual communication using modeling languages such as UML.
* Comprehensive understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), continuous integration, agile software development methodologies, values and procedures.
* Excellence in architecture documentation skills.
* Strong experience with reverse proxies, web servers, gateways, service-oriented architectures, web services (REST), microservice patterns, service buses and integration patterns, security practices, database technologies.
* Proven experience with databases and data storage including NoSQL and SQL databases, along with in memory key value stores.