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General Description:

The IT Enterprise Architect (EA) Manager oversees the Solutions Architecture team and proactively and holistically helps and guides enterprise leaders, product owners, and project teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes, and capabilities. The person fulfilling this role must have deep technical knowledge in networks, virtualization, cloud, application development, security, and automation tools. A successful EA Manager uses various approaches to construct current and future-state architecture models to support the firm’s growing needs. This person also facilitates business and IT alignment, connecting strategy to execution through a collaborative, supportive, and consultative manner, driving the organization’s digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth. This role proactively researches technology trends and identifies new or upgraded systems to help Holland & Knight improve its processes to operate more efficiently. Most importantly, the incumbent in this role must have exceptional communication, leadership, and collaboration skills to help deliver the vision set forth by firm leadership in alignment with its goals and objectives.

Key Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions:

• Works with the CIO, IT, and department leaders to design the required architecture to drive business outcomes.
• Oversees the Solutions Architecture team and leads team members to provide architecture direction, insight, and recommendations.
• Leads the analysis of the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and technical debt and recommends improvement solutions.
• Responsible for the design, layout, floorplan, power management, capacity management, and cable management for the firm’s data centers and all the remote office MDF and IDF rooms.
• Maintain data center system documentation, including rack elevations.
• Assists with the development and administration of business continuity or disaster recovery plans.
• Helps to define metrics to measure and demonstrate enterprise technology value.
• Construct and maintain deliverables showing Holland & Knight’s current and future-state architecture.
• Facilitates the research, evaluation, and selection of hardware and software technology and product standards, as well as the design of standard configurations
• Develops visualizations to help firm leadership understand the future state architecture and how it achieves Holland & Knight’s goals and objectives.
• Communicates the value of enterprise architecture and its portfolio of services to key stakeholders.
• Works closely with IT peers and product owners to enable infrastructure agility, scalability, and resilience.
• Collaborates with department leaders to develop strategies for innovation and process optimization.
• Coaches and mentors product owners/managers and business stakeholders to instill architectural thinking.

Required Skills:

• Strong leadership skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills in a technical context
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent planning and organizational skills
• Hands-on coding and software development skills (examples: Java, JavaScript, C#, Python, HTML, CSS, JSON/REST APIs, SQL, NoSQL, Shell)
• Aptitude to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of existing, new, and emerging technologies to update current architecture models
• Organizationally savvy, with an understanding of the political climate of the enterprise and how to navigate obstacles and politics
• Technology neutral: remains unbiased toward any specific technology or vendor choice and is more interested in results than personal preferences
• Displays intellectual curiosity and integrity
• Motivated and driven by achieving long-term business outcomes
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead cross-functional teams
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills; ability to create original concepts and theories for a variety of projects

Required Qualifications & Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related study
• 5+ years of experience of solution architecture design covering IT products, services, and capabilities
• Relevant industry certifications (AWS, CISSP, Professional Cloud Solutions Architect, Open CA, ITIL)
• Knowledge in application development, application programming interfaces (APIs), mobile development, middleware, servers and storage, database management and operations, clustering technologies, virtualization, cloud technologies, and active directory and protocols
• Knowledge in data strategies, data lake house, generative AI, and enterprise search
• Knowledge of network and security architecture
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technical configurations, technologies, and processing environments
• Experience in designing and constructing diagrams for server rooms and data center buildouts, including power and redundancy
• Knowledge of business process management, workflow, and integration methods and tools
• Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives and how they relate to achieving targeted business outcomes
• Ability to assess the value and risk of existing, new, and emerging technologies against current technology solutions
• Understanding of portfolio management, agile principles, and development methodologies to support agile teams
• Knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
• Comprehensive knowledge of organizational change management
• Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders and IT development teams

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to sit or stand for extended periods of time
• Moderate or advanced keyboard usage

Benefits: Our goal is to promote a work environment in which individuals have access to the resources they need to be at their best both professionally and personally, which includes resources that encourage individuals to focus on their health and well-being.  Below is a list of just some of the benefits we offer: generous paid time off; eleven paid holidays per year; time off for bereavement or jury duty; paid leave for new parents; comprehensive medical (PPO and HDHPs), dental and vision plans including coverage for domestic partners; life and AD&D insurance; short and long term disability insurance; tax-advantaged accounts for health care expenses, including FSA or HSA; FSA for dependent care; supplemental AFLAC policies for medical care; excess liability coverage; health advocacy services; behavioral health and counseling resources for all family members; 401(k); profit sharing; pre-tax transit and parking program; backup care for children and adults; senior care planning support; and resources for individuals with development disabilities and their caregivers.

Benefits may vary by position and office.

Holland & Knight is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran or any other protected class.

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