Technical Architect Job in Houston 77056, Texas US

Virtus Partners LLC, an innovative provider of Fixed-Income Asset Administration services has an immediate opening for a Technical Architect.  This IT Professional with significant technical experience will play a lead role in establishing a robust, scalable, and flexible technical architecture.

 

Job Functions, Unique Duties Responsibilities:

 

·         Assists and guides effort to move from a reactionary outlook to a proactive outlook; trouble-shooting environment to problem prevention.

·         Enable the successful implementation of new enterprise architecture components.

·         Assists in business strategy and process engineering.

·         Responsible for solution options, trade-offs, design and implementation.

·         Responsible for application integration.

·         Responsible for review and implementation of third party solutions or tools.

·         Responsible for standards definition and review.

 

Other Abilities:

·         Researching: must become adept at understanding issues and finding answers quickly and creatively.

·         Analyzing: must be able to formulate questions used in business conversations to elicit facts or statements from them, and be willing to listen to what these individuals have to say.

·         Engineering: must be able to apply principles of logic, science, and mathematics to the understanding of systems and processes so the latter can be improved.

·         Communicating: must be able to expound on an important subject to inform and instruct an audience, convincing members to take further action. This entails persuading, marketing, and selling.

·         Arbitrating: must be able to reconcile differences to achieve a common objective and find appropriate solutions.

·         Teaching Mentoring: must be able and willing to transfer knowledge to others, if necessary, identifying their weaknesses and helping in their correction.

·         Organizing: must be able to put things together in an orderly, functioning, structured whole. This entails handling multiple things at the same time effectively.

 

The qualified candidate will have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Analysis or related field of study.  Must have a minimum of 10 years of experience in database programming in relational databases; at least 3 years must include Transact-SQL.  Must have a minimum of 10 years of experience in 3GL programming; at least 2 years must include a Microsoft programming language. ASP.NET and experience with Business Intelligence systems is strongly desired.  Prior experience mentoring Junior Developers and contributing to team projects as part of the SDLC a strong asset.  

 

Qualified candidates meeting the above criteria should send a resume in confidence to careers@virtusllc.com .

 

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