Sr. Architect (Software Assessment)

West Monroe Partners is looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect to join our Technology practice and work closely with our Mergers and Acquisitions practice (M&A). This is an exciting opportunity to work within our Technology practice on project work including M&A due diligences, strategic enterprise architecture, architecture of post-merger integrations, and high-level plans for carve-outs.

What will you be doing?

• Assess the underlying technical environment within an organization and identify risks and opportunity areas to make recommendations on how to achieve long-term scalability, reduce operational cost, or better support business processes
• Evaluate IT and technical development processes for best practices and levels of maturity
• Identify key process issues and risks in the context of an investment thesis while evaluating potential investments for our Private Equity clients
• Formulate projects and strategies to support the client’s investment thesis, key risk mitigation, and long-term technology-based initiatives in the form of risk mitigation and post-close projects.
• Demonstrate expertise in designing technology solutions through system integration and application development

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of software architecture with experience in migrations, re-factoring and greenfield development projects
• Experience applying modern software design concepts such as separation of concerns, microservices, service oriented architectures, test-driven development, model-driven development, etc.
• Working knowledge and experience with complex business systems integration and custom object-oriented design and development
• Strong software engineering experience with two or more of the following: .NET (ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET), Java with J2EE (EJB, JDBC, Servlets, JSP, JSTL, JMS), Javascript frameworks (React, Bootstrap, Angular), Node.JS
• Experience applying Agile/lean methodologies
• Experience architecting solutions using database technologies such as relational, NoSQL, transactional and/or data warehouses.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical engagements including proposal development, estimation, and day-to-day project management experience (time tracking, budgeting, status reporting, etc.
• Familiarity or awareness of application security and secure coding principles
• Experience working within a dynamic, collaborative, and team-based environment
• Desire to lead and mentor other team members or developers while leading projects
• Experience architecting for cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS is a plus
• BS / Computer Science, MIS or equivalent required
• Excellent leadership, organizational, verbal and written communication skills

So, if you’re looking for an opportunity to flex your technical muscles in a high-energy, team-oriented environment where you own your career, we’d love to hear from you.

Think you’ve got what it takes? Join our team and make us better.

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