Job Description

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

Must be a current participant of the Department of Defense Skillbridge Program or of the Hiring our Heroes Corporate Fellowship Program.

What you’ll be doing...

As an Enterprise Architect on the CSG team, you will lead the creation, continual curation and oversight of enterprise architectural artifacts, financial research, business, operational and technical fit for capabilities in the CSG portfolio and continually scan the horizon for optimization. As an Enterprise Architect (EA), you will drive data driven, actionable enterprise architecture practice across the CSG portfolio.  The EA will be working with the folks from the business side, across the portfolio and with the product teams to ensure that the progression of our Northstar architecture, technical stack is kept in mind while balancing the needs of business programs. 

The EA will frequently work with counterparts in other organizations, particularly for larger projects that have impacts across portfolios. The EA role will also be engaged in application rationalization activities related to mergers and acquisitions and generate assessments , recommendations for capability placement, directionality and consolidation targets. 

The EA will be supporting current and near-term business needs, defining Architectural Runway and architectural governance policies. The EA will work at both a Portfolio, Program level and with the Development Agile Teams. The EA will also facilitate the reuse of ideas, components, services, and proven patterns across various solutions in a portfolio.

What we’re looking for...

The candidate must be able to establish relationships and work with managers at all levels without supervision. You must be able to articulate the problem statement and openly bring up challenges/roadblocks and impediments, negotiate, influence and drive solutions with directors and VPs in CSG space for tactical and strategic enterprise architecture approach and business capabilities. 

Responsibilities include:

• Application and capabilities rationalization , optimization and governance across the CSG portfolio.

• Tracks and drive application vendor roadmaps (Workday, ServiceNow, SAP amongst others) in alignment with our business priorities, application portfolio rationalization and maximize the value of our investments in vendor products services for our functional domains in HR, Employee Experience, ITSM, Supply chain and ERP systems amongst others.

• Tracks industry trends and leverages them to drive innovation and technology excellence across various functional domains.

• Assess vendor product capabilities to meet Northstar software/infrastructure standards, resiliency and redundancy requirements, and scalability.

• Performs regular assessments and retrospectives to determine if past decisions and directions are still sound and whether course correction is required.

• Leads the creation and oversight of architectural and financial research within functional areas to develop business value of program integration

• Develops, delivers and communicates architecture artifacts for implementation and execution of business and IT driven initiatives from ideation through roll out. You will exercise considerable judgment, trade-offs evaluation and risk mitigation planning during the upfront architecture evaluation, definition and design phases.

• Make vs Buy analysis of tools/technologies/products/SaaS as they apply to CSG products roadmaps, tooling and functions.

• Provides technology leadership in delivering architecture artifacts that promote reusability, modularity and scalability

• Partners with business and IT stakeholders to align with business drivers and product strategy across various lines of businesses, and apply service oriented architecture, microservices architecture patterns and cloud native principles to deliver architecture artifacts.

• Define, implement and enforce the Cloud and On-Prem Standard Operating Environment, standards, and associated tools/platforms/frameworks for the CSG portfolio, in coordination with IT-wide efforts and Technology Architecture and Planning.

• Cloud standards, DevOps / CI-CD tool chain , Data Architecture and Standard Operating Environment (SOE)

• Understand and build on emerging industry trends and how it works with Verizon.\u2028
  Cloud Architecture, Strategy; Execution

•  Define and enforce in the CSG portfolio architecture and best practices:\u2028availability; redundancy schemes, performance, Disaster Recovery, DB and Interfacing Systems,\u2028etc.\u2028\u2028

• Work within the portfolio and with external teams to drive Data Analytics direction, frameworks, tools and governance

You’ll need to have:

• Must be a current participant of the Department of Defense Skillbridge Program or of the Hiring our Heroes Corporate Fellowship Program.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in related IT field

• 6 or more years of experience in IT systems/solution design experience

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• 8 to 10 years experience in the Supply Chain, HR functions, Financial, industry. 

• Demonstrable experience leading software developers, systems or process analysts

• Excellent communication (verbal and writing), influencing and negotiation skills.

• Demonstrable experience in articulating the business drivers and architectural approach/trade-offs during discussions for solution buy-in at various levels 

• Ability to break down complex topics into simple to digest information and data points, adjusted to audiences at various levels.

• Ability to facilitate group meetings/discussions

• Ability to broker solutions for issues between functional domains, senior leaders

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity 

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.