About the Role
Title: Architecture Principal Technologist
Location: Phoenix United States
Job Description:
At the University of Phoenix, we are committed to the future of work by providing a fully remote, work-from-home environment. This strategy enables us to attract top talent nationwide, promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce. Are you looking for a rewarding and fulfilling position that offers challenging work and the opportunity to make a significant impact while collaborating with a team of fun, innovative individuals? Would you prefer to work with an organization that positively contributes to the world? If so, we would love to hear from you!
Are you searching for a rewarding, fulfilling position that offers challenging work and the ability to make a big impact while working side-by-side with a team of fun, innovative people? Ideally, would you like this position to be with an organization that makes a positive contribution to the world? If so…we would love to hear from you!
About Us
University of Phoenix is a leading higher education institution founded in 1976 by Dr. John Sperling. Our mission is to improve the lives of our students, their families and future generations through higher education. Our values (which hopefully you share) are: Brave. Honest. Focused.
Our University values and embraces all team members and their unique perspectives. We fundamentally believe in fostering an environment which deeply respects, celebrates, and actively encourages a diverse workforce. We are committed to hiring – and learning from – those who share our passion to help others achieve their educational aspirations.
We offer excellent benefits, an effective recognition program, and outstanding learning and development tools, including tuition vouchers for employees and their qualified family members.
About the Position
The Principal Technologist, IT is a key senior-level technology partner with broad and comprehensive responsibility for conceptual technology design and implementation of technology solutions that support business needs and deliverables, leading to substantial and direct revenue/cost savings to the organization. The individual leads product and software design development and continually ensures design governance across projects that span multiple application platforms (including in-house solutions, modulating Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) applications and Software as a Service Application (SaaS)), as well as the infrastructure solutions that deliver full platform functionality that efficiently and effectively service key business processes.
What You’ll Do
- Act as an individual contributor, while maintaining a high level of leadership and influence across groups.
- Provide leadership and strong technical expertise in engineering and architecture efforts for technology solutions to support key business needs and deliverables; ensure design governance across projects, applications and infrastructure.
- Lead product and software design and development across multiple technical teams; develop short- and long-term strategies and set project goals/milestones; guide problem analysis and requirements development; develop roadmaps and plans and track against such; lead build/buy decisions and vendor selection efforts; review and approve analysis, design and other work.
- Assure design integrity for solutions delivered in production to the business, staff, faculty and students.
- Lead technical presentations and address various topics including but not limited to technology in general, design work performed or to be performed, technical standards and best practices, industry trends and up-and-coming technology, methods, techniques, etc., retrospectives and lessons learned.
- Assess/document existing design with respect to maintenance and stability of existing platforms; apply critical and strategic thinking to generate ideas that will lead to the next generation of platform designs supporting organization processes, staff, faculty and students.
- Participate in leadership meetings and councils regarding technical and business-driven initiatives to develop and translate technical solutions to meet business needs.
- Perform other duties as assigned or apparent.