Solutions Architect

Job Number: 1688986 Business: GE Corporate Business Segment: Corporate IT and Initiatives

About Us:
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Posted Position Title: Solutions Architect Career Level: Experienced Function: Information Technology Function Segment: Application and Enterprise Architecture Location: United States : Michigan City: Van Buren Twp Postal Code: 48111-5711 Relocation Assistance: No

Role Summary/Purpose:
GE is an equal opportunity employer, offering a great work environment, challenging career opportunities, professional training and competitive compensation.

The Solutions Architect will be involved with IT projects across a variety of organizations and GE businesses. As a part of these projects, the Solutions Architect will design solutions, contribute to or lead the implementation of solutions, drive specific initiatives from the CTO and CIO level, define and promote standards and best practices across GE Corporate.

Essential Responsibilities:
The primary role of the solutions architect is to collaborate with organizations and services across GE to ensure business needs are being met with robust technology.

In addition, the solutions architect will be expected to:

• Discover new technologies
• Design new reference architectures and help guide the overall strategic direction of the GE Corporate IT strategy
• Advise management on technology purchases and on future projects or environment enhancements
• Collaborate with application teams to design and document technical solutions based on business and technical requirements
• Collaborate with build teams to implement technical designs utilizing state of the art technical platforms and infrastructure
• Develop and document reference architectures for standardizing platforms
• Collaborate with application and build teams to evaluate and adopt new technologies

Qualifications/Requirements:
Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 4 years of experience with J2EE application Servers such as Weblogic, JBoss and Tomcat, etc.
• Minimum 2 year of experience with relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, DB2, etc.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must submit your application for employment through COS (Internal Candidates) or GECareers (External Candidates) to be considered for this opening
• Must be willing to work out of an office in Visteon Village, Wayne County, Van Buren Township (near Ann Arbor/Detroit)
• Must be able to satisfy the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act
• GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen

Additional Eligibility Qualifications:
GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen.

Desired Characteristics:

• Experience as a Lead Developer or Lead Architect on large enterprise-level projects
• Strong track record of understanding current and emerging technologies demonstrated through training, job experience and industry activities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; Communicates clearly and succinctly
• Demonstrated ability to interact comfortably and effectively at all levels, with colleagues and customers
• Experience with developing software using Java, PHP, Perl, Python, .NET, etc.
• Experience with software development frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, Struts, Oracle ADF, JQuery, etc.
• Experience with application design and development tools such as Eclipse, Subversion, CVS, Ant, Maven, Bamboo, JIRA, Confluence, etc.
• Experience with software design life-cycles such as Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, etc.
• Experience with performance analysis tools such as JProbe, Yourkit, HP Diagnostics, HP SiteScope, Dynatrace, etc.
• Experience with web Servers such as Apache, Nginx, OHS, etc.
• Experience with a variety of operating systems such as Linux, Windows, Solaris, etc.
• Experience with modelling languages such as UML, BPMN, Archimate, etc.
• Experience with Middleware technologies such as SOA, ESB, BPEL, ETL, Web Services, HP Systinet, Oracle SOA Suite, Sonic ESB, etc.
• Experience with large ERP systems such as Oracle EBS, SAP, ServiceNow, etc.
• Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMWare, Cloud Computing, Cisco UCS, etc.
• Experience with directory server technology such as LDAP, Active Directory, etc.
• Experience with IT security concepts such as SAML, Single Sign-On, Encryption, SSL, WS-Security, etc.
• Certification in one or more IT related disciplines such as ITILv3, TOGAF, Archimate, etc.
• Team Player - collaborates well with others to solve problems and actively incorporates input from various sources
• Customer Focused - evaluates decisions through the eyes of the customer and builds strong customer relationships
• Problem Solver - effectively evaluates information to make decisions that meet both tactical and strategy needs
• Proactive - evaluates and refactors processes and designs to meet requirements in a rapidly evolving environment
• Leader - strong project management and organizational skills; able to work across multiple projects and teams simultaneously
• Self-motivated - strong sense of project ownership, accountability and commitment to quality