Senior Architect Job in Costa Mesa 92626, California US
Experian is the leading global information services company, providing data and analytical tools to clients in more than 80 countries. The company helps businesses to manage credit risk, prevent fraud, target marketing offers and automate decision making. Experian also helps individuals to check their credit report and credit score and protect against identity theft.
Experian plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN) and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 index. Total revenue for the year ended March 31, 2011, was US $4.2 billion. Experian employs approximately 15,000 people in 41 countries and has its corporate headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, with operational headquarters in Nottingham, UK; Costa Mesa, California; and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
For more information, visit http://www.experianplc.com .
Position Details:
Provides architectural framework that facilitates designs and a set of components that minimizes time-to market and product development costs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provides expertise in application design and architecture on small projects.
- Assesses business problems, system requirements, and the external system design. Obtains development estimates.
- Identifies physical design alternatives that satisfy the system requirements and presents pros and cons for each solution.
- Prepares systems design alternatives document, conducts formal reviews, and obtains project approval on the chosen design.
- Assists with estimating the project schedule through the development phase of the project.
- Provides technical decisions on projects, program direction, and application modifications.
- May work on logical and physical database design where applicable for the given project.
- Stays abreast of current technology, new technological advances and company standards.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 5 years related experience in programming analysis utilizing the complete software development life cycle.
- Strong knowledge of platform specific tools and utilities.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Good knowledge of software development methodologies.
- Ability to think creatively.Good knowledge of Experian's products and technical environment, including interrelationships of systems.
- Consulting experience a plus.